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‘Beauty and the Beast’ launch begins as Disney pulls film from Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) Malaysia stood canada goose store by its decision to bar and the Beast from cinemas without a moment being canada goose coats cut as the worldwide rollout of the Walt Disney movie began on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: A Beauty and the Beast poster in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Angie Teo

The company refused to make the cut and pulled the film from cinemas cheap canada goose uk across the Muslim majority country where homosexuality is discouraged by religious leaders.

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He added that local distributors had asked for a review of the decision. The board is expected canada goose to meet on Tuesday.

The film opened in neighboring canada goose black friday sale Singapore on Thursday with a guidance rating. The world rollout happens over the next buy canada goose jacket few days.

Last year, Singapore organizers of the musical Miserables cut a scene in which two male actors canada goose coats on sale kissed so that the Canada Goose Jackets show could retain a rating and reach a wider audience.

The Communications Office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore warned viewers about the likely content of and the Beast

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In next door Indonesia, which has the world largest Muslim population, the movie opens on Friday with a 13+ classification and without any cuts.

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The movie opens in China and India on Friday. In India, it has thecanadagooseoutlet been given a U/A rating which means unrestricted public showing but with guidance for children under 12.

The gay character in the live action Canada Goose Outlet remake of the 1991 animated version has sparked calls among some ultra conservative groups around the world for a boycott. evangelist preacher said last week that the film was trying uk canada goose outlet to promote an LGBT agenda to children.

Lyle Shelton, managing director of the conservative Australian Christian Lobby, said canada goose uk black friday he was concerned by reports of content in the movie but that he wouldn start a public campaign against Canada Goose online it.

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Malaysia has previously blocked the canada goose clearance release of Hollywood movies deemed religiously insensitive, such as 1998 Prince of Egypt cheap Canada Goose which depicted the Biblical story of Moses, and 1995 which featured a pig as the main character. Muslims canada goose clearance sale consider pigs unclean.

Reporting canada goose factory sale by Praveen Menon in Kuala Lumpur; Additional reporting by Byron Kaye in Sydney, Marius canadian goose jacket Zaharia in Singapore, Ben Blanchard in Beijing, Shilpa Jamkhandikar in Mumbai and Cindy Silvania and Fransiska Nangoy in Jakarta; Editing by Nick Macfie.