DreamWorks' animated movie 'Abominable' will not be released in Malaysia over a scene showing China's 'nine-dash line' in the South China Sea, the movie distributor says
Vietnam has already pulled the movie from cinemas last week, while the Philippines' foreign minister has called for the scene showing China's"nine-dash line" in a map of the South China Sea to be cut and the film boycotted.
DreamWorks' animated movie "Abominable" will not be released in Malaysia after its producers declined to meet a censor board requirement to cut a scene showing China's "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea, the movie distributor said on Sunday. Vietnam pulled the movie from cinemas last week, while the Philippines' foreign minister has called for the scene showing the map to be cut and the film boycotted.
"Universal has decided not to make the censor cut required by the Malaysian censor board and as such will not be able to release the film in Malaysia," a spokeswoman for the film's distributor, United International Pictures, told Reuters.The film was set to be released in Malaysian cinemas on November 7.
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