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‘Unplanned’+Movie+Banned+In+Canada
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47488/unp...-paul-bois
The pro-life movie "Unplanned" has been effectively banned from screening in Canadian cinemas, reports LifeSiteNews. Censorship right before our eyes. The logic? Let the movie show and if it bombs great. Just don’t censor things.
“Speaking with Chuck Konzelman — writer, director, and producer of the Abby Johnson biopic — LifeSiteNews learned that the largest distribution companies in Canada – Landmark, Cineplex, and Mongrel Media — have refused to let "Unplanned" play in theaters.
"In Canada, Cineplex basically has monopolistic power ... the National Post mentions them as controlling nearly 80 percent of all movie screens, and from our limited experience, they seem to have many of the most desirable locations, in and near the major metropolitan areas," Konzelman told LifeSiteNews in an email. "So rejection by Cineplex basically means we're not playing in Canada."
Mongrel Media, Canada's largest distribution company, reportedly turned down the film for "content" reasons.
"What's wrong with our content?" Konzelman asked in the email, noting that there is "nothing objectionable in the film; no foul language, no nudity, no sexuality, and the only violence is that which is necessarily connected with an abortion procedure."
"It's the pro-life message itself which is [found to be] objectionable," Konzelman added.
Cineplex, the other major distributor, reportedly gave "unsatisfactory answers" when pressed on its decision to ban the film, according to Konzelman.
Canadian law dictates that films can only be shown in theaters if they also have distributors. Provincial film boards are also prevented from rating films that lack distributors on their application forms.
"Unplanned" tells the story of famed Planned Parenthood defector Abby Johnson, who left the organization to become a pro-life activist after witnessing an abortion while working at the Bryan, Texas Planned Parenthood clinic in 2009. Released in March, the movie arguably became one of the most successful independent movies of 2019 thus far by raking in $18 million in the box office on a $6 million budget.“ source dailywire.com