Welcome to Pixel Playground! 👾 by Alexander Sorry, but it looks like mining the public domain for quick bucks is the new trend in low-budget horror 🏠. Following the success of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) and the launch of its 'Twisted Childhood Universe' à la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, more filmmakers are grabbing everyone's cute childhood memories and turning them into nightmares 😱. Unsurprisingly, Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh will be duking it out sooner rather than later ⏰.
Deadline dropped the exclusive on May 1st, highlighting the upcoming crossover horror movie won't have any ties to pre-existing flicks such as the Blood and Honey features or Mickey's Mouse Trap 🎬, which was promptly announced just as the classic Steamboat Willie cartoon hit the public domain in January 🔓.
So far, the exploitation of these childhood characters in mature yet puerile fashion - with tons of blood and homages to low-budget horror fare - has proven to be a profitable endeavor 💸, with the first Blood and Honey movie making roughly $5 million worldwide at the box office on a measly $50,000 production budget 📊. While the quality was certainly up for debate, it's easy to see why some aspiring filmmakers may take this route to put their name out there and gradually go bigger 💪. It remains to be seen, however, whether the joke holds up in the long run and bigger distributors show an interest in such projects 🤔.
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