Winnie the Pooh is Walt Disney’s second most recognizable character (behind Mickey Mouse), but he hasn’t had much of a big screen presence since the 1970′s. Though there were attempts to take him to the big screen since then (Piglet had his own movie), Disney has gone back to basics of the A.A. Milne stories, and made a feature length return-to-form feature for the character. The big question is: will this also play for parents? The answer is yes. Find out more below.

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Tom Kenny is one of those performers who name means different things to different generations. Some associate him with his time as Tomkat to Bob Goldthwait’s Bobcat. Others may know him as one of the regulars on Mr. Show, while an entire generation has grown up with him as the voice of Spongebob Squarepants. He’s currently voicing the character of Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh, and we got a chance to talk with him about voice acting, the community of voice actors, and the controversy around Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Check it out…

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Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall have been kicing around Disney for over a decade, and are old hands (though not as old as Burny Mattinson) with animation. And though they’ve worked together on other projects, 2011’s Winnie the Pooh was the first time they worked together as co-directors. It was an agreeable process, as they told us. Check it out..

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Winnie the Pooh is the latest animated film from Walt Disney, and it’s a throwback to the old 2-D classical animation that made Disney the powerhouse it is today. And to make a throwback, it’s good to have someone like Burny Mattinson involved. He’s been with the studio for over half a century, and worked with all the old masters. For Winnie the Pooh he was the story supervisor for the animation department, and he proved a great person to talk to about the film and the history of animation. Check it out…

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Wednesday, Disney released two photos from their upcoming animated feature Winnie the Pooh. The staple character hasn’t been at the forefront of a film in years, and no 2005′s Hufflelump Movie doesn’t count in our book! This film brings together all the old school favorites including Rabbit, Tigger, Piglet, and poor, poor Eeyore. Take a look…

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Unlike the other major studios, Disney has decided not to alter all of its classic properties with CGI or live action. Instead, they’re keeping the old school 2D format and creating a new animated film for everybody’s favorite pant-less bear, Winnie the Pooh. The feature will hit theaters during the summer of 2011 and will mark the first time the property has been on the big screen in over 3 decades. Take a look…

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Disney is in the development stage for  a new hand-drawn animated Winnie the Pooh movie. The movie is currently set to be released in 2011 and this is not one of the gobs of straight-to-DVD that Disney releases; they’re planning on a big theatrical release.

If you’re like me, you’re wondering where the hell this came from. Why go back to Pooh? Apparently, Winnie the Pooh is the second-largest licensed character behind Mickey Mouse.

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What does Mark Miller’s graphic novel Wanted and the children’s classic Winnie the Pooh have in common? On the surface it seems like absolutely nothing, but Universal saw something and they’re going to use it. According to THR, the studio has just hired a writer for the sequel to the 2008 comic blockbuster and it’s none other than Evan Spiliotopoulos. He’s the guy who co-wrote the screenplay for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and it’s Halloween spin-off.

Mark Miller gives some details about the story for Wanted 2 after the jump.

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