The Lion King 1½ (also known as The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata outside of the United States and Canada) is a 2004 American direct-to-video animated musical buddy comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. The film was also theatrically released internationally and in selected cities in the United States. It is the third and final (Chronologically, the second) installment in the Lion King trilogy. The DVD went to the Disney Vault in January 2005. The film is a prequel/parallel/midquel to the 1994's The Lion King, and focuses on the meerkat/warthog duo Timon and Pumbaa before, during and after the events of the original film. It's followed by a Disney television film, The Lion Guard, which is advertised as the fourth feature-length animated made-for-TV film, November 2015.