Was Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 a box office success? Budget and earnings explored

Winnie-the-Pooh has made a huge comeback with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, which is proving to be better compared to its predecessor. After the critical flop of 2023’s Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield has come back to continue the story of Christopher Robin.

With Blood and Honey 2, Pooh, Owl, Piglet, and Tigger are out again on a murder spree, leaving Christopher to save the town from the terrors of the gang and the mass massacre that they create. As a horror feature, the movie has left its mark on the box office and is being tagged as qualitatively exponentially better than the first installment of the franchise.

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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 a box office win? Earnings explored

The first Blood and Honey movie proved to be a critical flop, scoring a critic’s score of 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. With horrendous costumes, thread-bare plotlines, and rampant blood-bath, the first installment left little hope that the franchise would have any scope to grow.

Despite this, horror fans flooded into movie theaters to watch the first-of-its-kind horror movie where their childhood favorite Pooh Bear turns into a killer. Regardless of the poor reviews, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was determined to make a sequel and make it as good as possible.

Thus came Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, which was an objectively much better film. With improved acting and more realistic costumes, the movie went beyond its predecessor's killer Hundred Acre Wood gimmick and also upped the murder numbers.

The first movie was made on a budget of $50,000, opened on 1,652 screens, and ended up grossing a total of $1.7 million at the box office. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 was originally reported to have a budget five times larger than its predecessor, and it was later confirmed that the budget was increased to ten times. Winnie-the-Pooh's prosthetics in the film were estimated to be over $20,000, compared to the $770 spent on the first movie's costume.

But the sequel grossed $533,144 domestically, and its international earnings went up to $7,049,397. The overall earnings from the movie, which has been running for 92 days now, amount to $7,582,541. Overall, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 could not become a box office hit despite production upping the game.

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More about Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Blood and Honey 2 sees Pooh Bear hunting down Christopher Robin once again, as the titular character is still out for revenge for the boy who abandoned his animals when he was young. In the sequel, we see Winnie the Pooh wielding a chainsaw, making him much more menacing than before.

This time, with characters like Owl and Tigger joining the mayhem, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is much more violent. Here is the official synopsis of the movie from IMDb:

"Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl and Tigger take their fight to the town of Ashdown, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake."

After its short stint at the box office, Umbrella Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of the film. It will be available for purchase in July.

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Cast list explored

Here is the cast list of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2:

• Scott Chambers as Christopher Robin
• Tallulah Evans as Lexy
• Ryan Oliva as Winnie-the-Pooh
• Lewis Santer as Tigger
• Marcus Massey as Owl
• Eddy MacKenzie as Piglet
• Simon Callow as Cavendish
• Alec Newman as Alan
• Thea Evans as Bunny
• Nicola Wright as Daphne
• Teresa Banham as Mary Darling
• Flynn Matthews as Finn

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With the improved quality of the sequel, it is likely that the franchise is turning into a cinematic Poohniverse, with another installment coming up. Watch this space for more updates on it.