Bambi

Stand aside, Mickey Mouse slasher movie (Steamboat Willie Mickey version only): the team behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey—the most high-profile film in the current wave of horror movies based on beloved characters in the public domain—just leveled up. There’s an entire cinematic universe coming.Spoilers of the Week: July 22ndThe existence of sequel Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 was confirmed last fall. Its creators, Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios, also intend to make films titled Bambi: The Reckoning,…

The next generation of ghost busting begins in a new Frozen Empire clip. Netflix drops another cryptic look at its adaptation of Three Body Problem. Plus, Disney’s Bambi remake loses its director. Spoilers now!Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewBambiAccording to a new report from The Wrap, Sarah Polley is no longer attached to direct Disney’s live-action Bambi remake. The ExorcistDuring a recent interview with The Direct, Jason Blum confirmed he still plans to produce another Exorcist…

From 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to 2023’s Wish, we’ve ranked all 62 films from the dream factory Is there a more recognizable brand on earth than Disney? The studio has, of course, gone far beyond the modest dreams of Walt and Roy Disney, who began the company 100 years ago sketching away in a garage. They could never have predicted their humble beginnings turning into an enormous corporation with thousands of films, shows, games, and more under its belt. Though…

Oscar-winner Sarah Polley is in talks to direct a live-action Bambi film for Disney.According to Deadline, the writer-director, who recently won the Academy award for best adapted screenplay for Women Talking, is in discussions with the studio on the project which would use photorealistic CGI.The film was initially announced in 2020 with Captain Marvel screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser writer Lindsey Beer attached. It’s unclear if the screenplay will remain the same.The news follows…

Image: Walt Disney Animation StudiosIt was only a matter of time before we got to see Bambi’s mom die in “live-action” glory. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesDeadline reports that Disney has officially started getting together a team to make audiences cry and traumatize a new generation with a Bambi adaptation from Oscar-winning Women Talking filmmaker Sarah Polley. Bambi follows the trend of Disney classics getting the live-action treatment—something that seems unlikely…

Lucy Knight claims “Walt Disney made Bambi a cutesy schmaltzfest for kids” (Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi, 21 March), perpetuating the misconception that early Disney productions were made for children. The idea of a separate children’s audience didn’t exist in 1942, when Disney’s Bambi appeared and – like its predecessors Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Dumbo – terrified many youngsters accompanying their parents. Beatrice Ruben and I interviewed some of these for…

Many childhoods have already been traumatised by Bambi, the classic Disney animation about a young fawn whose mother is murdered. Now, two film-makers are seeking to continue the upset for adults, with a sinister remake which rethinks Bambi as a “vicious killing machine”.Scott Jeffrey, the director responsible for work such as The Curse of Humpty Dumpty and The Bad Nun, has said he will team up with Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who wrote and directed forthcoming slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, for a new version…

Image: DisneyYou may recall that earlier in the year, news broke of a horror movie based on Winnie the Pooh, of all things. With the character having re-entered the public domain after Disney let the rights lapse, Pooh: Blood & Honey took the children’s character and made him a serial killer, at which point the internet freaked the hell out. If you thought that would be the last we heard of such a concept, well, I don’t know how that’s possible if you read the title of this article.So yes, some horror filmmakers are…

Disney movies may be made for children, but often, it seems that producers had their parents and babysitters in mind when they were making them.From Toy Story and Frozen to Aladdin and Ratatouille, Disney films are littered with sexual innuendos. This means there’s plenty of entertainment there for the grown-ups, too.Some of the jokes are visual and shockingly obvious, while others lay hidden in the script.Click through the gallery to see some of the best rude references in Disney movies. 17 of the best sexual innuendos…