Ang Lee film 'censored for China'
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Ang Lee's new film Lust, Caution is being censored for Chinese audiences, according to a report.
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China has censored part of the latest installment of hit Hollywood movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" for "vilifying and defacing the Chinese", the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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"Lust, Caution", a sexually explicit spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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The Chinese author of a book about  long-dead Peking Opera stars has become the latest challenger  to the ruling Communist Party's censors, daring them on Friday  to explain their secretive ways before the law.
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Pirates of the Caribbean scenes, starring actor Chow Yun-fat, are censored in China, reports say.
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TORONTO - A few years back, Zhang Yimou was a bit miffed that fellow filmmaker Ang Lee was faster on the draw in elevating the martial-arts epic to serious cinema. But now that Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has broken the genre into the mainstream among Western audiences, Zhang is happy to follow his lead...
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China has pulled a movie already censored for its sexually explicit scenes from theaters and banned its producer for two years, a move the filmmaker said Friday was motivated by the spread of uncut, pirated copies of the film.
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DVD copies of the movie âRambo,â starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, below, are much in demand in Myanmar but very had to find, Agence France-Presse reported. That is because the police there have banned the film, in which Mr. Stallone portrays a Vietnam War veteran battling soldiers of the military junta that rules the country. âPolice have warned me I could go to jail for up to seven years if I sell the latest Rambo film,â said a DVD vendor who declined to be identified. Another seller said that at least 20 customers asked for it every day. One democracy advocate, who declined to say how he obtained a copy, said, âI watched the movie at home with my family and gave it to my friends because I wanted them to see it.â.
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Chinese director Lou Ye said Wednesday he plans to defy a government order banning him from making films for five years, a ruling prompted by his decision to screen a movie at the Cannes Film Festival before it cleared censors in China.
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Steven Spielberg's offices have played down recent reports of a possible collaboration with famed Chinese director Zhang Yimou on a screen version of the classic Chinese novel, "Journey to the West."
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Ang Lee has walked off with another top award at the Venice film festival, and surprised critics are wondering how he did it.
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China will extend its prime-time ban on foreign cartoons by an hour and demand that local television stations seek approval from censors before broadcasting them, the country's media watchdog said in a circular.
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Ang Lee's new spy thriller, "Lust, Caution," has been withdrawn as Taiwan's entry for the best foreign film category at next year's Oscars.
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Taiwan criticized the Venice International Film Festival on Tuesday for listing a movie by Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee as originating in "Taiwan, China," a label that suggests the self-ruled island is part of mainland China.
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HONG KONG -- For decades, Chinese filmmakers haven't made a major feature film about one of the biggest wartime atrocities suffered by their country: the Nanjing massacre of 1937. Now  two directors are preparing to make movies set against the Japanese military's brutal killings in the former...
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China has banned acclaimed  director Lou Ye from making movies for five years as punishment  for sending his latest film "Summer Palace," an erotic love  story set against the backdrop of the bloody crackdown in  Tiananmen Square, to the Cannes Film Festival without  government approval, official media reported Monday.
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Oscar winner Ang Lee, director of gay  cowboy classic &quot;Brokeback Mountain,&quot; returns to the theme of  forbidden love with a sexually explicit thriller set in the  teeming streets of 1940s Shanghai.