EXCLUSIVE: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey horror crossover Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, featuring Pooh, Bambi, Pinocchio, Peter Pan and other characters from the Twisted Childhood Universe (TCU), has pre-sold around the world out of the AFM.
Premiere Entertainment Group has licensed rights, including theatrical components, in Latin America (BF Distribution), Germany and Italy (Plaion), UK (Altitude), Benelux (ND Pictures), France (Factoris), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella), Turkey (BG Films), Russia/CIS (Voxell), Japan (New Select), Taiwan (Movie Cloud), Malaysia (Mega Films), Mongolia (Filmbridge), and Pakistan (Cine Entertainment).
ITN will handle distribution in North America with principal photography scheduled for March. While the plot is being kept under wraps, the crossover slasher film will see the monsters teaming up to take on the survivors from the previous films. Below is the previously first released concept art.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield is directing Poohniverse from his and Scott Chambers’ original screenplay. Frake-Waterfield and Chambers are producing for Jagged Edge Productions, while Stuart Alson and Nicole Holland serve as executive producers for ITN Studios. Casting is expected to include Scott Chambers returning as Christopher Robin, Megan Placito as Wendy Darling, Roxanne Mckee as Xana, Lewis Santer as Tigger and Martin Portlock as Peter Pan.
2023 movie Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, from the same team, made $7.7M global off a $100,000 budget. Next up from the group are Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare and Bambi: The Reckoning, which are scheduled for U.S. theatrical releases during first quarter of 2025.
The genre movies have all become possible after a host of iconic characters — many whose global fame was boosted by Disney — recently entered public domain after copyrights expired.
