The slasher was pulled from cinemas in Hong Kong and Macao just before its release
“with great regret” that the film’s scheduled release in the city as well as in the neighboring Chinese enclave of Macau had been “cancelled.”that they were notified without explanation that 32 theaters across both territories would not go ahead with screenings of filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield’sas previously planned.
The cancellation has raised fresh concerns of increasing censorship in China’s so-called special administrative regions. “I assume #CCP and their #HongKong quislings worry that viewers might think it wasn’t a movie but a documentary about #XiJinping,”Benedict Rogers, the London-based founder of Hong Kong Watch, an organization monitoring human rights in the Chinese territory.
A protester holds a poster of Xi Jinping and a Pooh plush during a demonstration in Bangkok, where the Chinese leader was attending APEC in November 2022.The cartoon bear had previously been blacklisted in mainland China after critics of President Xi Jinping frequently pointed out the character’s resemblance to the leader. The ruling Chinese Communist Party
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