When Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey hit theaters in 2023, it was attempting to capitalize on the monster success of Terrifier 2, which I acquired and released with my previous company.
While critics and audiences both smashed the IP cash grab (current RT score 3% critics and 49% audience), it was also a monster success for ITN and Fathom Events, raking in an incredible $7.7M in theaters worldwide on a measly $50k budget!
ITN quickly put a sequel in production and announced several spinoffs and the mega event film: Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, which would bring Winnie together with Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, The Mad Hatter, and even Peter Pan!
The announcement was made back in 2024, but filming has yet to get underway. First, ITN had to build out the Poohniverse (Bambi: The Reckoning hit theaters last July, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare before that). Now, the distributor has announced that filming is slated to kick off this coming summer.
“It will be complete carnage. We are heavily influenced by Freddy vs. Jason and The Avengers,” Jagged Edge producer Rhys Frake-Waterfield said in a statement back in 2024.
In fact, before the “Twisted Child Universe” goes behind cameras, the company revealed that Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3 will shoot this coming spring. They truly are all-in on their universe.
The original creature slasher Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey movie featured a 6-foot Pooh and his sidekick Piglet going on a murderous rampage through the Hundred Acre Wood after being left to fend for themselves by Christopher Robin, only to go to feral, THR recalls.
That was followed by a sequel, and now, Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, which Frake-Waterfield will direct and with a higher budget as Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Piglet, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, The Mad Hatter, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell join forces to wreak havoc!
