Production of the film became possible in 2022 after A.A. Milne's novel "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926) entered the public domain in the United States, which marked the first appearances of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin. The film's characters could not, however, resemble the Disney versions, who debuted in 1966 and are protected by copyright.
The film was initially shot in just 8-days.
In Hong Kong and Macau, the movie was pulled from cinemas just 2 days before its release. Cinema chains in the two cities cited "technical reasons" as the cause. The classic character Winnie The Pooh has been used to mock China's president Xi Jinping by netizens and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Tigger was originally going to be in this film, but wasn't due to the copyright of The Walt Disney Company.
While the copyright for Winnie the Pooh lapsed in the United States in 2022, the copyright will stay in place in Europe until 2027; seventy years after the death of A.A. Milne.