A gory, microbudget slasher film — in which the beloved children's book character Winnie the Pooh is a murderous psychopath — has been pulled suddenly from theaters in Hong Kong and Macau.

Disney's Christopher Robin—a new live-action family film based on A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh—will not be coming out in China. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Beijing has moved to ban ...

fueling speculation over censorship and political pressure from China, where an unofficial — and bizarre — crackdown on Winnie-the-Pooh has been in place for several years. By Alex Ritman U.K ...

For many residents, the Winnie the Pooh character is a playful taunt of China's President Xi Jinping and Chinese censors in the past had briefly banned social media searches for the bear in the ...

Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved children's icon, has been blacklisted in China following comparisons between the pot-bellied bear and China's president, the Financial Times reported. The character's ...

When the reporter asked “What is the relationship between Xi and Winnie the Pooh,” not only did she get no reply but the China-based Yoon’s access to Ernie was disabled. Xi has banned any ...

Winnie the Pooh is joining the protests against China's "zero-COVID" policy. Japan's Disney store is now selling merchandise online that features Winnie the Pooh holding up a blank white sheet of ...

Pooh Bear merchandise is sold in China, where Shanghai Disneyland also ... Formosan black bear holding a Taiwanese flag and punching Winnie-the-Pooh are displayed at a shop in Taoyuan, northern ...

due to “political pressure,” with an outright — although unspoken — Winnie-the-Pooh ban in China now appearing to have extended to Hong Kong. In 2018, Disney’s live-action/CGI feature ...