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“Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey” Surprises At The Box Office

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Critics heavily bashed Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. However, the film has already become a box office smash hit. The film is inspired by the characters from the children’s book. The story follows Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, who have become feral after being abandoned by Christopher Robin. Eventually, the duo becomes serial killers. In the time span of this film, they focus their terror on a group of college kids who come to visit the Hundred Acre Wood. The film’s announcement went viral when fans of the childhood classic expressed excitement. Therefore, the one-night-only theatrical release expanded to a week.

This past week, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has dominated the box office. However, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has also become a box office hit. The film originally got many negative reviews from critics. However, it earned $750k in its opening weekend. This has raised to $1.58 million gross in the first week of the film’s theatrical release. These numbers are promising for the overall financial results of the film. It’s particularly impressive when you consider that Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey was made on a budget of only $100K.

Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey

Even before the film was officially released, the film’s writer/director/producer, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, was confident in its success. Frake-Waterfield announced that there were plans for a sequel already in the works. He is also looking to continue the success of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey by twisting other children’s stories. There are ideas for Bambi, which he is just producing, and Peter Pan. According to Frake-Waterfield, Winnie the Pooh: Love and Honey could be part of a multi-film universe.

Just two months into 2023, it’s clear that this will be a strong year for the horror genre. January 2023 held the release of M3GAN, which had a production budget of $12 million and grossed over $170 million. Additionally, February 2023 kicked off with M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin. That film was made with a $20 million budget and grossed $47.9 million. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey grossed over ten times its budget. Additionally, March 2023 holds the release of Scream VI, which is projected to gross $5 million more than Scream III in its opening weekend. There are also high hopes for horror releases later this year, such as Evil Dead Rise, Insidious: Fear the Dark, The Exorcist legacy sequel, The Nun 2, and Saw X. Fans are also excited for original releases, Beau is Afraid, Renfield and The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

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Disney Global Box Office Hits $1 Billion In 2023

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It’s only February 2023, but Disney is already dominating the box office for the year. Just six weeks into the year and they have already earned $1 billion in global box office sales. To date, the specific number is actually $1.283 billion. Historically, it has taken other studios up to a full year to reach those numbers. These impressive numbers are all thanks to the combined box office numbers of Avatar: The Way of Water and Marvel’s introduction to phase 5 of the MCU, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Additionally, the re-release of Titanic for the film’s 25th anniversary gave an additional $383 million domestically and $900 million internationally.

The long and impressive Avatar sequel by James Cameron is the primary reason for Disney’s impressive gross. Over the weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water reached a total earning of $2.2433 billion worldwide. This means that the film has officially surpassed Titanic ($2.2428 billion) as the third-highest-grossing movie of all time. In the same weekend, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opened in theaters worldwide and performed above expectations. The film earned an impressive $225 million in its first weekend alone.

Disney’s Box-Office Sensation

Disney Store on Oxford Street on 6th January 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Walt Disney or simply Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Reportedly, this is only the first of the many billions that Disney is expected to make in 2023. With movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (May 5), The Little Mermaid remake (May 26), Elemental (June 16), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (June 30), and The Marvels (November 10), media sources have high expectations for the studio at hand. However, the box office has not fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. Before COVID-19, Disney broke records, generating $7 billion in 2016 and 2018. Then, in 2019, it broke its own record with $11.12 billion. That’s the biggest collective box office gross of any studio in history.

Disney ended 2022 with a $4.9 billion gross at the box office, which includes domestic and international sales. Of that, Avatar: The Way of Water was the only pandemic-era release to hit a billion in gross box office sales. Shawn Robins, chief analyst at BoxOfficePro had something to say about this. He explained, “Disney was coming off such a historic run of box office years that even without the pandemic or streaming-intense strategies, it would have been a challenge to duplicate. Nevertheless, this is an encouraging start to 2023. It will still take some time, but this may be the beginning of an important turnaround for the biggest studio in the world.”

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“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” Box Office Expectations Revealed

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Paul Rudd is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ant-Man in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The film is going to reignite things at the movie theater box office. Expectations are high for the third Ant-Man movie. The film has an estimate of $95 million to $100 million gross throughout the opening weekend in North America. Extending estimates to President’s Day on Monday brings the anticipated gross to $110 million. It will likely take the number one spot from Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Internationally, Quantumania estimates range from $130 million to $190 million, with an overall estimate of $160 million.

According to domestic box office estimates, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will likely gross lower than recent Marvel titles like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($185 million), Thor: Love and Thunder ($144 million) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($181 million). This isn’t uncommon for Ant-Man movies. However, Quantumania is getting a huge spike compared to the previous films centered around the micro-superhero. The original Ant-Man grossed at $57 Million. Its sequel, Ant-Man, and the Wasp, grossed $76 million domestically and $161 million on a global scale.

Quantumania Takes Off

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly attend the “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania” UK Gala Screening at BFI IMAX Waterloo on February 16, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

In the film, Ant-Man, his daughter, the Wasp, and others are sent to a mysterious Quantum Realm, which defies the laws of space and time. Evangeline Lilly, who plays the Wasp, has returned for Quantumania. Additionally, Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglass are coming back to the franchise. Jonathan Majors will star as Kang the Conqueror. Plus, Kathryn Newton will play Scott Lang’s daughter, and William Jackson Harper will play Quaz. The film is the 31st installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It will kick off Phase Five and introduce the true nature of Kang the Conquerer.

Reviews vary for the film. According to Rolling Stone, “An ant can carry 10-15 times its body weight, yet as the designated kick-off film tasked with setting up the next two-phase, multi-movie/TV arc, ‘Quantumania’ is still being crushed by having to bear way too much of a franchise burden.” However, in Variety’s review, chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised the work of Jonathan Majors. He said, “With no motion-capture makeup to hide behind, Jonathan Majors holds you with the quiet force of his pensive scowl. You hang on his every word; he makes vengeance and genocide sound like the most hypnotically casual of propositions.” 

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