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*Quentin Tarantino‘s “Django Unchained” re-opened in China yesterday to disappointing numbers after it was snatched suddenly from the country’s theaters last month. Some “minor changes” were made, according to Shanghai’s UME Cineplex. According to Deadline.com, the edited version is three minutes shorter, with nudity scenes omitted. As previously reported, the film in its original cut [...]
*Chinese moviegoers will soon be able to see “Django Unchained,” but it won’t be the same version that was mysteriously pulled from theaters two weeks ago. Sony Pictures announced today that Quentin Tarantino’s freed-slave drama would be back in Chinese theaters on May 12, reports the Los Angeles Times. “There is tremendous excitement, anticipation and [...]
*Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” once bound for China and then abruptly pulled from theaters, could still get a chance to roll out in the world’s second-largest movie market. The mainland Chinese publicists working on behalf of Sony China, the film’s distributor, have reiterated that work is now underway with government authorities to facilitate its release [...]
*Quentin Tarantino’s violent slave-revenge drama “Django Unchained” was yanked out of Chinese theaters on its opening day Thursday, with the importer blaming an unspecified technical problem. The rare suspension order by China Film Group Corp. has already lead to suspicion that the Hollywood film could have run afoul of Chinese censors despite weeks of promotion [...]
*China’s on the late freight and just announced a release of “Django Unchained” to the public. But the movie wasn’t without it’s special edits and changes to fit the country’s censorship rules. THR reported that director Quentin Tarantino made some adjustments to the bloodshed scenes, changing the hue and the splatter. In an interview with [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE We can say “Peace on Earth.” We can [...]
*Will Smith was initially rumored to be in talks for the role of Django when production began in 2011 on Quentin Tarantino’s slavery-era film “Django Unchained,” but the part eventually went to Jamie Foxx. Smith has now confirmed that he was offered the part first, but rejected it over concerns Christoph Waltz’s bounty hunter character [...]
*Okay, so it looks like there’s about to be some kind of slavery movie show down ’bout to go down between Lee Daniels and Quentin Tarantino. According to The Root, the director is planning to make a post-slavery Black Western, likely because he hated “Django.” “I was deeply hurt by the movie. I was deeply [...]
*The real estate giant and famous billionaire Donald Trump is at it again – scrunching his nose and pointing his finger. This time, he’s unleashed his fury on Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” tweeting that the movie is racist. But it’s coming off as a desperate bridge to maintain his relationship with the Black community. “Django [...]
*Writer-director Quentin Tarantino took home a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his slavery-set film “Django Unchained.” Minutes later, he stepped backstage and treated reporters to a piece of the screenplay that never made it to the big screen. [Scroll down to listen.] Since its Christmas Day opening, some have criticized Tarantino for saturating his film [...]
*Quentin Tarantino surely stirred up some conversation with the production of his spaghetti Western slave flick, “Django Unchained,” and even threw out some criticism about Alex Haley’s classic TV mini series, “Roots,” saying that much of the story wasn’t true. So, some of the original “Roots” cast members showed up on the Wendy Williams show [...]
*“Django Unchained,” still the number film outside of the US, has caused some of the most passionate discussions and debates in a long time. But something less controversial came up recently when Quentin Tarantino admitted Idris Elba was on the list of possible cast members, but he didn’t recruit him because he’s British. “Yeah, Idris [...]
*”Django Unchained,” Quentin Tarantino’s slave saga, a Best Picture Oscar nominee, brought in a very strong $42.9 million over the weekend and is proving an international hit. That was the best of any U.S. film at the foreign box office and comes on the heels of its $48 million international debut last weekend. It launched [...]
*The people spoke and they were heard. eBay has officially banned the “Django Unchained” slave toys from being sold on the Internet shopping hub. After the Weinstein Company announced the release of the figurines, immediately outspoken activists and black consumers expressed outrage, charging the creators of trivializing enslavement. Thus the company halted production, but still [...]
*“Django Unchained” has become Quentin Tarantino‘s top-grossing film at the North American box office with nearly $130 million and counting, eclipsing the $120 million earned domestically by “Inglourious Basterds” in 2009. “Django” — starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson — has yet to make a major push overseas, [...]
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