We do not grant license for the American movie 'Barbie' to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line Vietnam's response to the"Barbie" movie'sdepiction of the South China Sea shows how sensitive these matters are in South East Asia, and especially i...
Manila— Philippine censors said Wednesday they have allowed the "Barbie" movie to be shown in cinemas, after asking its Hollywood distributor to blur lines on a brightly-colored world map drawing allegedly showing China's claims to the disputed South China Sea. Thefantasy comedy film about ...
“The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group told Variety. “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.” https://variety.com...
Warner Bros Movie 'Barbie' Ticket Sales Top $1 Billion More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Women stand in front of a promotional poster of film "Barbie" in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) - The blockbuster film "Barbie" has topped $1 billion i...
Authorities in The Philippines are weighing a decision on whether to follow the lead taken by Vietnam and ban Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie. Vietnam on Monday announced that it will bar the film’s commercial release due to the movie’s depiction of a map that depicts the “nine dash...
After a week of reviewing the matter, the Philippines’ Movie and Television Review and Classification Board said it accepts that the cartoonish map shown inthe fun summer comedy is not intended to depict the nine-dash line, but in fact portrays(spoilers!)“the route of the make-believe journe...