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Movie distributors in Hong Kong and Macau have canceled screenings of a British-made horror film featuring the popular children's character Winnie the Pooh, who is banned from China's tightly controlled internet due to a supposed resemblance to Communist Party supreme leader Xi Jinping. “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” was scheduled to debut in Hong Kong on Thursday after passing the government film censorship process, but was suddenly pulled from movie theaters without explanation, prompting widespread speculation that it was linked to the banning of Winnie the Pooh from the Chinese internet after a series of memes likening him to Xi went viral. "It is with great regret that we announce that the scheduled release of ‘Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey in Hong Kong’ and Macau on March 23 has been canceled," Hong Kong distribution company VII Pillars Entertainment said via its Facebook page. "We are incredibly sorry for the disappointment and inconvenience," it said, but gave no reason for the decision. People commenting under the post seemed to assume political censorship was in play, however. "They keep saying that we have freedom of speech!" wrote Wong_FC. "Such freedom of creative and journalistic expression, I don't think." Brian Pun commented "Fragile city," while Jin Do San said: "I was going to try to understand China's logic, but now I'm going to give up." "We're already at the point in Hong Kong where we can't even watch a cult movie," commented Norman Poon, while...

President Xi bears an unfortunate resemblance to the honey-addicted bear. In 2013, the image of short, fat Xi and long, thin Barack Obama Xi has apparently grown tired of the simile. This week, typing “Little Winnie Bear” into social media engines such as WeChat pulled up the notification: “This content is illegal.” All Pooh stickers have also been removed from the site’s gallery. Xi is not the first leader to vow to crush innocuous children’s entertainment. In 2003, Russian lawyers said they were preparing a suit against Warner Bros, the maker of the Harry Potter franchise, on the basis that Cruella de May. Composite: Getty/Allstar The Disney prince comparisons became endemic with the election of Emmanuel Macron, who shares many of Trudeau’s tragic handsomeness issues. Although, with his slightly more grownup, less twinkly-eyed face, Macron comes closer to a Boys’ Own hero. Few have so far remarked on his resemblance to the title character from Archer, the spy cartoon for adults. There, the pompous, hypersexual egomaniac continuously messes things up for everyone else, yet glides through life on his looks and plausible manner. Worth taking a few notes.

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