And the winner is....ROMAN POLANSKI!
Posted on 01/14/2018 11:05:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
A source involved with the film's international rollout says the Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks drama was presented to the Lebanese censorship board, which nixed it, citing a "boycott Israel" list. Lebanon has banned Steven Spielberg's newspaper drama The Post just days before the film is set to premiere in Beirut.
A source involved with The Post's international rollout says the movie, which stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, was presented to the Lebanese censorship board, which nixed it, citing a "boycott Israel" list that includes Spielberg due to his Oscar-winning Holocaust film Schindler's List (the 1993 film shot some scenes in Jerusalem).
The matter has been transferred to Lebanon's Minister of Interior and Municipalities, who could overturn the decision.
Unlike Gal Gadot, whose film Wonder Woman was banned in Lebanon in May, Spielberg is not an Israeli citizen nor has he ever fought with the Israeli Army. Lebanon is officially at war with Israel.
Italia Film was poised to release the film in Lebanon on Jan. 18. A spokesperson for Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment says he cannot comment because the company has not been told officially by the Lebanese distributor The Post will not be released there because of censorship.
The source says the move came as a shock given that over the past three years, at least five films either directed or produced by Spielberg were accepted and approved by the censorship board, and it is only now that it is invoking Spielberg's inclusion on the "boycott Israel" list. Both The BFG and Bridge of Spies — which mark Spielberg's two most recent helming efforts before The Post — were released in Lebanon.
The '70s-set film, which chronicles Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) quest to publish the Pentagon Papers, is critical of the U.S. government.
In the case of Wonder Woman, the Lebanese government took issue with the fact that the film’s star, Gadot, served in the military (as is required of all Israeli citizens).
The Post has been doing brisk business in the United States in limited release. Since Fox released it on Dec. 22, the $50 million film from Amblin and Participant Media has earned $4.2 million. This weekend, The Post expanded nationwide into 2,819 theaters where it grossed an estimated $18.6 million for the three days as it looks to a four-day gross of $22.2 million.
Clearly in the muslim world there is a lot of bigotry so where is the UN addressing this, oh wait they must be waiting for the media to report this first, Nah never mind.
I am not sure why, but this amuses me.
Hollywood discovering what real censorship feels like.
Maybe they like Streep as much as we do.
I love the cover photos of Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, they couldn’t possibly look more Condescending and Pompous.
I haven’t and don’t plan on seeing ‘the Post’.
The Washington Post has become nothing more than a super-market tabloid, anti-Trump non-stop.
I will not contribute my shekels toward rehabbing this disgustion rag’s reputation.
IMO, Katherine Graham was a f’d up bitch, who lept forward 50 years to nullify an election during her day. Unfortunately Nixon did 1/1000th of what has happened today, and resigned.
I can’t imagine what they would have done, if Nixon had been involved in even 10% of what Hillary Clinton has been involved in.
Today the paper ignores most everything to trash anyone with a decent world view.
Let them have their pipe dreams. I’m not interested.
And the winner is....ROMAN POLANSKI!
It gets banned in my house, too, and I’m in Louisiana.
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I can understand it. Jew director. Not only that, he believes the Holocaust actually happened. Don't want a movie from someone like that, even if it's about an American newspaper.
So the premise I suppose is the high tenstion and drama and bravery of the press to print a report that was shopped around by Ellsberg for some time before the NY Times first printed the story. Didn’t the Post follow, not lead in the printing of the storyz/
Is this movie an effort to rehabilitate the FAKE NEWS industry? Does everything need to be propaganda?
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