May return date rumored for unchained Django
- By Zhang Rui
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E-mail China.org.cn, April 26, 2013
Online reports suggest that Quentin Tarantino's Academy Award-winning "Django Unchained" is set to be unchained for an early May return to Chinese cinemas.
Quentin Tarantino's Academy Award-winning "Django Unchained" is set to be unchained for a return to Chinese cinemas in early May, online Chinese movie portal Mtime reported.
The film, which won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for director Quentin Tarantino and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Christoph Waltz originally hit mainland cinemas on April 11. The film was dramatically pulled the same day, causing confusion among Chinese film fans, some of whom took to social networking sites to complain that they were asked to leave screenings just one minute into the film.
The film's distributors claimed it was pulled due to "technical reasons," however media reports suggested that Chinese authorities had realized there might still be one or two seconds of nudity in the movie.
Cinema sources claimed on Weibo, China's micro blogging website, that the reedited "Django Unchained" will return to Chinese cinemas between May 7 and May 9. A representative from Columbia Pictures' China branch told China.org.cn that an official announcement regarding the film's Chinese rerelease date would be made within the next two days. They did not officially deny the online reports.
The release-delayed "Django Unchained" will go up against "Iron Man 3" and Chinese blockbuster-to-be "So Young" by actor-turned-director Zhao Wei should it realize its rumored May rerelease date.
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