Winnie the Pooh film won’t release in Hong Kong: The odd Chinese sensitivity towards the cartoon character


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Public screenings of a slasher movie featuring the fictional character Winnie the Pooh were abruptly cancelled in Hong Kong last week, its distributor announced on Facebook with “great regret”. Written, directed, and produced by the British filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the micro-budget R-rated movie, ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’, shows the beloved, pant-less, anthropomorphic bear as a bloodthirsty and revengeful creature, who is on a rampage killing a group of young women. Responding to an email sent by the Associated Press, the movie’s distributor VII Pillars Entertainment said “it was notified by cinemas that they could not show the film...