Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Ciara Maloney and Dean Buckley, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.
As a child, Christopher Robin befriended a mysterious group of animals in the Hundred Acre Woods. However, as Christopher grew up and went to college, he abandoned his magical friends. With nobody to care for them, the creatures turned feral. Returning to the Hundred Acre Wood with his fiancée, Christopher ends up unleashing a primal and unexpected evil.
At time of recording, it was ranked 56th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 2nd September 2023.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Note: Darren incorrectly implies that Shasta McNasty was overseen by Doug Herzog. While it was a 1999 show that generated a moral panic, it aired on UPN rather than Fox.
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- Trailer for Dinosaur Hotel, November 2022.
- Edward Rothstein at The New York Times writes about the Copyright Extension Act, January 2003.
- Will Bedingfield at Wired consides the context of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey in the history of copyright and public domain, April 2023.
- Joe George at The Progressive Magazine argues for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey as a compelling case for the public commons, February 2023.
- Georgie Barrow at Lexology considers Mickey Mouse’s long journey to the public domain, January 2024.
- Todd Spangler at Variety reports on John Oliver’s trolling of Walt Disney with a public domain Mickey Mouse, January 2024.
- Glenn Fleishman at The Smithsonian Magazine reports on the first entry of new material into the public domain in over two decades, January 2019.
- Archie Bland at The Guardian discusses the idea that superheroes are a modern mythology, May 2016.
- Neil Harris at Social Research writes about the problem with treating copyrighted works as a modern mythology, Summer 1985.
- Sam Theilman at NBC writes about efforts by superhero creators to assert their rights to their creations, September 2021.
- Jerome Maida at The Philadelphia Inquirer writes about the tragedy of Bill Mantlo, June 2017.
- Brian Cronin at Comic Book Resources writes about how Ed Brubaker made more from his cameo in Captain America: The Winter Soldier than for creating the Winter Soldier, April 2021.
- Bradley Langman at Esquire writes about the conflict between Sylvester Stallone and Irwin Winkler over the Rocky franchise, March 2023.
- J. Kim Murphy at Variety reports on Sylvester Stallone’s attempts to assert his ownership of the Rocky franchise, July 2022.
- Natasha Wynarcyzk at The Irish Mirror reports on the inclusion of Rocky in an ad for Ladbrokes, September 2022.
- The New York Times reports on the purchase of Winnie the Pooh by the Walt Disney corporation, April 2001.
- Ryan Reynolds releases Winnie-the-Screwed, January 2022.
- Alex Rittman at The Hollywood Reporter offers an account of the box office performance of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey at the Mexican box office, February 2023.
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield talks to Yahoo! about how the elements of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey were carefully chosen to avoid copyright, February 2023.
- Jim Cummings, the voice of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, reacts to Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, July 2022.
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his plans for a shared universe of public domain characters, February 2023.
- Alex Rittman at The Hollywood Reporter reports on the success of Bambi: The Reckoning at Cannes, May 2023.
- Kamakshi Gupta writes at NBC about the banning of screenings of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey in Hong Kong, March 2023.
- Vanessa Romo at NPR reports on China’s longstanding censorship of Winnie the Pooh, March 2023.
- Isabel Vincent at The New York Post reports on China’s sensitivity over comparisons of Winnie the Pooh to Xi Jinping, April 2023.
- Melissa T. Miller at The Nerdist reports on the masks used in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, July 2022.
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield talks to SFX about his influences making Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, January 2023.
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield talks to Den of Geek about his feelings towards Halloween Ends, February 2023.
- Spencer McDaniel at Tales of Time Forgotten writes about scaphism, May 2020.
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