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China denies Ghostbusters
'Ghostbusters' Denied Release in China
China’s official censorship guidelines technically prohibit movies that “promote cults or superstition” — a holdover from the Communist Party’s secular ideology — and the country’s regulators occasionally have been known to use this obscure provision as rationale for banning films that feature ghosts or supernatural beings in a semi-realistic way (Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest suffered such a fate in 2006, thanks to its depictions of ghouls and cannibalism).
But sources close to China Film Co., the dominant state-owned film body which handles the import and release of all foreign movies in the country, tell THR that censorship wasn’t the determinative issue.
“It’s been confirmed that Ghostbusters won’t be coming to China, because they think it’s not really that attractive to Chinese audiences,” says one Chinese executive. “Most of the Chinese audience didn’t see the first and second movies, so they don’t think there’s much market for it here,” the exec adds.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/ghostbu...203600062.html
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