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Posted: 11 Apr 2013 01:10 AM PDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese debut of Quentin Taratino's Oscar-winning film Django Unchained, a violent Western slave revenge tale, was suddenly cancelled on Thursday for "technical reasons," movie theatres said.

China is now the largest international market for Hollywood and the opening of the film had been widely anticipated because of reports it would only have minor cuts from government censors, despite Tarantino's reputation for violence.

Some microbloggers said the film had begun to roll when it was stopped and they were told to leave cinemas.

"We got the notice from our headquarters around 10am this morning but it was too late to cancel two viewings," said an official at one of several Shanghai theatres contacted.

"We were only told that it was due to some technology problems and were told to cancel it. They didn't tell us when the film would be shown again."

Domestic media quoted industry insiders as saying the cancellation was probably due to some nudity which may not have been edited out of the film.

The Chinese government censors all movies before they can be released. Scenes that contain nudity, politically sensitive issues, as well as extreme levels of violence, must be edited out before the film receives a go-ahead from the authorities.

Officials at Huaxia Film Distribution Co Ltd and the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT), which is responsible for movie censorship, could not be reached for comment.

"After watching it for about a minute, it stopped!" said microblogger Xue Yi Dao. "Staff then came in and said SARFT... had called to say it had to be delayed!! Can someone tell me what's happening!!"

The film stars Jamie Foxx as a slave turned bounty hunter who wreaks revenge on slave plantation owners as he tries to rescue his wife. It features Tarantino's trademark style of extensive graphic and bloody violence, along with dark humour.

Microbloggers speculated that a scene in which Foxx is strung from the rafters covered only by a thin cloth may have caught the attention of the authorities.

In 2004, the debut of a Chinese movie, Dahongmidian, was also suddenly cancelled on the day it was supposed to open because it contained "erotic" scenes which "made improper propaganda without approval," according to local media reports.

Filmmakers are eagerly turning their eye to the vast Chinese market, where several new screens are being built every day, particularly after China eased its quota rules on U.S. movies last year.

It did not lift its annual quota of 20 foreign films, but essentially expanded it, permitting 14 premium format films such as IMAX or 3D on top of the original 20.

The Chinese box office for U.S. films grew by 36 percent in 2012, making the country the largest international market and surpassing Japan, according to the Motion Picture Association of America's MPAA's annual Theatrical Market Statistics report in late March.

Work begins on Divergent

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:54 PM PDT

Lionsgate this week announced that principal photography has begun in Chicago on the highly anticipated feature film adaptation of Divergent, starring Golden Globe nominated Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Academy Award winner Kate Winslet.

The studio also announced that Ray Stevenson and Mekhi Phifer will join a stellar young cast including Maggie Q, Jai Courtney, Miles Teller, Zoë Kravitz and Ben Lloyd-Hughes. The futuristic action adventure, based on author Veronica Roth's New York Times best seller, will be directed by Neil Burger from a script by Vanessa Taylor.

The original draft of the script was written by Evan Daugherty. Summit will release the film theatrically in North America in The Hunger Games slot in March 2014.

Divergent is a thrilling adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.

The extremely popular young adult novel Divergent was written by first time author Veronica Roth and has topped the New York Times Best Sellers list ever since being published in May of 2011.

The book was written by Roth while she was earning her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University. She followed her first novel with the book Insurgent, which has also made its way to the No. 1 position on specific New York Times Best Sellers lists.

To date, book sales are now over 3 million copies for both novels combined, and both titles are HarperCollins most successful e-books ever in regards to sales. The studio acquired the film rights to the novel in early 2011 several months before the book Divergent was published.

Matt Damon faces a bleak future in 'Elysium'

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:18 PM PDT

The first trailer for Neill Blomkamp's new eqgerly awaited sci-fi movie has been released.

The director was responsible for the 1999 movie District 9.

The trailer shows Matt Damon as an inhabitant of Earth in 2154. The planet has been ravaged by poverty and pollution.

The exoskeleton-clad character will emerge as the leader of a rebellion against Elysium, a neighbouring land of plenty with no illness or poverty.

Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley will play two Elysium envoys sent to maintain the divide between the two spheres.

Elysium will be released on 9 August in North America and 22 August in Malaysia.

(Relaxnews)

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Khamis, 11 April 2013

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