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Children of the Dark ban mars start of Bangkok International Film Festival

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2008-09-24 02:41:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Bangkok International Film Festival got under way yesterday with a casual "soft opening" with Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona A few local celebrities paraded through and paused for a few moments to be snapped by shutterbugs -- Pen-ek Ratanaruang posed brieftly alongside fellow Thai director Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, the festival's...
 
Tags: film, national film associations, thailand film office, thailand, ban, yaba issue rampant, rampant, issue, festival
 
 
 
 
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China Lifts Ban on Three U.S. Films

2008-02-26 14:40:38 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
 
...banning all Hollywood produced films and even some films coming out of its more Western leaning city of Hong Kong until at least March of 2008. Well, March is just around the corner and adding to our article this week about The Golden Compass being let into Chinese theaters comes word of at least two more films being allowed through Chinas...
 
Tags: china, films, hollywood product, hollywood, hollywood films, ban, china film, foreign films, chinas pocket-book
 
 
 
 
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I Ban Thee, Lithuania!

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2008-07-23 15:40:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...ban all lines from public display. Lines are pure evil. We could also ban the word "rape" from our language, in order to prevent people raping each other. Lithuania is really onto something here. We're a bit behind in the West, of course, but we have pretty much banned certain words, like "nigger", which is why we no longer have racists here....
 
Tags: soviet symbols, symbols, ban, soviet, personal freedom, soviet union, public display, lithuania, plan
 
 
 
 
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Ray Ban 3-D Glasses

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2008-04-04 14:43:42 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Ban 3-D glasses! We get the glorious eye-wear news thanks to the professionals at Variety As DreamWorks Animation, Disney and other studios ramp up production of 3-D films, a newly formed company called D-mented Entertainment has teamed with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica Group and 3-D technological company Kerner Optical to launch a designer line...
 
Tags: glasses, custom 3-d glasses, 3-d glasses, high-end ray-ban glasses, glorious eye-wear news, glorious, siuicki, 3-d films, ray-ban maker luxottica
 
 
 
 
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Children of the Dark director willing to accept censorship, but not ban

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2008-09-25 05:21:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...banning of his film from the Bangkok International Film Festival . Producers Yukiko Shiii and Masaomi Karasaki also flew to Bangkok to talk to the press Sakamoto says he offered to recut the drama about child-sex slavery so it would be more appropriate for Thai sensibilities. He and his producers also clarified that they hadn't shot the film...
 
Tags: national film associations, film, film illegaly, foreign film producer, thailand film office, press, press conference yesterday, producer, producer karasaki
 
 
 
 
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Redstone Lifts Ban on Cruise

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2008-05-06 14:58:10 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...banning Cruise from participation in films shot on any Paramount lot or location. That lot ban was lifted however, because Cruise has been spotted on several occasions since October 2007 visiting his good friend J.J. Abrams on the set of the next Star Trek feature film, which is a Paramount project With fence-mending currently in progress,...
 
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Browser, 7/23: Mamma Mia mangles Abba?; Ban on Brian ends!; Colorful spaghetti

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2008-07-23 21:06:57 by Jeffrey Overstreet in
...BAN ON THE LIFE OF BRIAN IS OVER And we have Brians girlfriend to thank for it Kudos to Chattaway for finding this news IF MICHEL GONDRY HAD A COOKING SHOW I think it would look like this
 
Tags: mamma mia, dislike mamma mia, overlook nonmusical performers, love abbas music, browser, movie, boneheadedly bad, abba fan, stay tuned
 
 
 
 
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You gotta give 'em hope

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2009-01-07 06:01:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
...ban homosexuals from being school teachers as well as any heterosexual teachers who would dare to support gay educators. Called Proposition 6, it's uncannily reminiscent of California's recent Proposition 8 on banning gay marriage. The big difference: Proposition 6 went down to defeat. Even Ronald Reagan publicly opposed it. If he were alive...
 
Tags: milk, harvey milk leads, van sant, proposition, gus van sant, recent proposition, ronald reagan publicly, film, reagan
 
 
 
 
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China Will Let New U.S. Films in Again -- Just in Time for '10,000 B.C.'! Whew!

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2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Eric D. Snider in Cinematical
...ban on American films, partly as a means of increasing the box office of home-grown product, and partly because China was just kind of steamed at the U.S. for various reasons. Kicking Yankee flicks out of the cineplexes is as good a method of saber-rattling as anything else, I guess Chinese officials denied there even was a ban. To prove...
 
Tags: films, permanent ban, ban, china, not-a-ban, mainland china, american films, chinese censorship process, chinese officials