{"id":150266,"date":"2023-03-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=915479"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:00:00","slug":"screening-of-winnie-the-pooh-slasher-film-cancelled-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/03\/21\/screening-of-winnie-the-pooh-slasher-film-cancelled-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening of Winnie the Pooh slasher film cancelled in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The screening of a new Winnie the Pooh slasher film has been cancelled in Hong Kong due to technical reasons, according to reports.<br \/>\nMoviematic, which had organised a screening of the British film set to go ahead on Tuesday night, reported the cancellation on social media.<br \/>\nThe distributor of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, in Hong Kong - VII Pillars Entertainment - did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<br \/>\nA ticket-booking link on the company's official Facebook page prompted a message saying ticketing was temporarily unavailable.<br \/>\nChinese censors have previously targeted the film's main character due to memes which compare the bumbling bear to President Xi Jinping,<br \/>\nHe is currently on a three-day visit to Russia.<br \/>\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 2:41 President Putin welcomes Xi Jinping<br \/>\nThe comparisons first started in 2013 when Xi visited the US and met his then-counterpart Barack Obama - with some online commentators comparing their likeness to Pooh and Tigger.<br \/>\nOthers have used the image of Pooh, originally created by English author AA Milne, to signal dissent.<br \/>\nSome films have been prevented from being shown in the Chinese special administrative region after a new censorship law came into effect in 2021.<br \/>\nAdvertisement<br \/>\nThe former British colony's censorship law now bans movies that \"endorse, support, glorify, encourage and incite activities that might endanger national security\".<br \/>\nRead more on Sky News:<br \/>\nVladimir Putin and Xi Jinping praise 'no limits friendship'<br \/>\nPutin and Xi - best pals or a friendship of convenience?<br \/>\nBeijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 after anti-government protests stormed the city.<br \/>\nLast year, two films were dropped from Hong Kong's international film festival after failing to get approval from authorities.<br \/>\nThe latest cancellation comes as the city prepares to host the Art Basel contemporary art fair, with authorities keen to promote Hong Kong as a vibrant cultural hub.<br \/>\nHong Kong's government has not yet responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The screening of a new Winnie the Pooh slasher film has been cancelled in Hong Kong due to technical reasons, according to reports.<br \/>\nMoviematic, which had organised a screening of the British film set to go ahead on Tuesday night, reported the cancella&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,65,928,339,194,1234,249,465],"tags":[8493,3472,2274,1845,10315,2172,10413,10385,10392,2972],"class_list":["post-150266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-beijing","category-censorship","category-hong-kong","category-news-chinese-law","category-obama","category-russia","category-social-media","tag-britain","tag-chinese","tag-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-media-intelligence","tag-national-security","tag-putin","tag-security-law","tag-signal","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150270,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150266\/revisions\/150270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}