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The Hong Kong launch of British slasher movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been canceled with the distributor giving no purpose for pulling it.
VII Pillars Leisure stated on its Fb web page that it was with “nice remorse” that the scheduled launch of the film on March 23 had been cancelled. It didn’t give additional particulars.
Chinese language censors have previously focused the movie’s principal character, initially conceptualised by English creator AA Milne, because of memes that evaluate the bumbling bear to President Xi Jinping.
The comparisons started in 2013 when Mr Xi visited the US and met his then counterpart Barack Obama and a few on-line commentators seized on their resemblance to Pooh and Tigger.
Some have used the picture of Pooh to sign dissent.
Hong Kong’s authorities didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
A ticket-booking hyperlink on its Fb web page introduced up a message saying ticketing was quickly unavailable.
Moviematic, which had organized a screening of the movie for Tuesday night, reported the cancellation on its social media web page earlier within the day and cited technical causes for the cancellation.
A brand new censorship regulation within the former British colony got here into impact in 2021. Some movies have been prevented from being proven within the Chinese language particular administrative area.
Town’s censorship regulation bars movies that “endorse, help, glorify, encourage and incite actions that may endanger nationwide safety”.
Beijing imposed a nationwide safety regulation on Hong Kong in 2020 after the town was rocked by anti-government protests.
The regulation units out punishment for something deemed subversion, secession, colluding with overseas forces and terrorism.
Two movies had been dropped from Hong Kong’s worldwide movie competition final yr after failing to get approval from authorities.
– Reuters
