{"id":303527,"date":"2017-03-21T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=303527"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:09:44","slug":"beauty-and-the-beast-pulled-from-cinemas-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/beauty-and-the-beast-pulled-from-cinemas-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Beast pulled from cinemas in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beauty and the Beast has been pulled from Kuwaiti cinemas amid concerns from censors.<\/p>\n

The live-action remake of the classic animation makes LeFou, villain Gaston’s sidekick, the first openly gay character in a Disney film.<\/p>\n

A board member at the National Cinema Company, which operates most of Kuwait’s cinemas, said an edited version might be screened later this week.<\/p>\n

Disney is yet to comment on the move.<\/p>\n

Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast, has taken more than $350m (\u00a3282m) around the world and opened in Kuwait on Thursday, rated PG-13.<\/p>\n

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Image copyrightDISNEY LeFou, played by Josh Gad (right), is Disney’s first openly gay character<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

But the National Cinema Company – which runs 11 of the 13 cinemas in the predominantly Muslim country – contacted those who had tickets to see the film on Monday to say the screenings had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

It cited “unforeseen difficulties” and promised a full refund.<\/p>\n

Board member Duaij Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah told the Associated Press news agency: “We were requested to stop the screening and further censor the movie for things that were deemed offensive by the Ministry of Information’s censorship department.”<\/p>\n

The film’s “exclusively gay moment” earlier led to censors in Malaysia requesting edits, but Disney pulled the film from release there. A drive-in cinema in the US state of Alabama has also cancelled screenings of the film.<\/p>\n

The film sees Josh Gad star as LeFou, opposite Luke Evans’ Gaston.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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