Just when you thought the Hundred Acre Wood was safe, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3 has been confirmed and it looks to introduce horrifying versions of Rabbit, Heffalumps, and Woozles.
As reported by Variety, Jagged Edge Productions' Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Chambers also shared this film will have a bigger budget than the first two films. The first film, which released in the U.S. on Febraury 15, 2023, and came about because of 1926's Winnie-the-Pooh book entering public domain, made a staggering $5.2 million off of a $50,000 budget.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 was released on March 26, 2024, and allegedly has a budget 10x that of the original. Only time will tell how it performs at the box office.
What we do know, however, is that it is "better than the first, but that's not saying much."
In our Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review, we said it "doubles down on a smorgasbord of satisfying slasher kills, employing some gumption and gnarliness in pursuit of a sick, twisted, and self-aware horror curveball. Rhys Frake-Waterfield's sequel looks infinitely better – and with ten times the budget, it ought to – but that doesn’t excuse the many flaws it inherited from the first Hundred Acre horror flick."
This news also follows the announcement of Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios' Avengers-esque tie-in movie called Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble. The crossover event film is set to arrive in 2025 with dark versions of Bambi, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Petter Pan, Tigger, Piglet, The Mad Hatter, Sleeping Beauty, and Winnie, of course.
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