Winnie The Pooh
In public domain, early Mickey Mouse version will star in horror movies
The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney's copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from "Steamboat Willie" is already the focus of two horror films. On Monday, just hours after the 1928 short entered the public domain, a trailer for "Mickey's Mouse Trap" dropped on YouTube. Another yet-to-be-titled film was announced Tuesday. "Steamboat Willie" featured early versions of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, it was the third cartoon featuring the duo they made but the first to be released. In it, a more menacing Mickey, bearing more resemblance to rat than mouse, captains a boat and makes musical instruments out of other animals. It's perhaps fitting, then, that the first projects announced are seemingly low-budget and campy slasher movies and not unprecedented. Winnie the Pooh sans red shirt entered the public domain in 2022; scarcely a year later, he was notching up a
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Superman to Pooh: Comics characters that became the face of protests
As Taiwanese cock a snook at China with cartoon-inspired patches, a look at other such statements
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Christopher Robin movie review: A spin-off of the book 'Winnie the Pooh'
The 'bear of very little brain' and his friend reunite in the endearing Christopher Robin. Go watch it
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China bans Winnie the Pooh, the letter 'N' after Xi's power grab
China's state-run news outlets have played down the move, as if in hopes that most Chinese simply will not notice, or care
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