China pulls Avatar from screens early ...

[ysengrin]

Hong Kong’s Apple Daily said the state-run China Film Group had instructed cinemas nationwide to stop showing the ordinary [non-3D] version of Avatar from January 23 on orders from Beijing’s propaganda czars ... Popular views of the film as an allegory for predatory property developers across China may not have gone down well with the Propaganda Department in Beijing.

From the Times Online.

Comments

[iceleopard.livejournal.com]

Oh China is just pissed that Cameron chose to make the Na'vi resemble blue leopards, and NOT pandas...that cuts in on the China toy trade, and now Beijing is all pissy.
It prolly got calls from the minister of cute fluffy movie animals or something whining about now they have no market in the west and they can't compete with the tie in rights effetively.

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

*gryn* I'll take off the anon post :)