Posted on 05/21/2019 3:14:40 PM PDT by aimhigh
The pro-life movie "Unplanned" has been effectively banned from screening in Canadian cinemas, reports LifeSiteNews.
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."
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It’s a dead heat between the UK and Canada for first to arrive at 1984.
With the U.S. only slightly trailing.
At least we still have the means to deal with our progressives.
I remember when Brother Andrew was smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain. We may have to become smugglers of truth behind the Maple Curtain.
[The pro-life movie “Unplanned” has been effectively banned from screening in Canadian cinemas, reports LifeSiteNews.]
The world-wide spirit of antichrist does not want the truth getting out to the people.
Though it should be painfully-obvious, anyways.
Well, worth reading the article because from the headline you get the idea that the GOVERNMENT was involved in the banning, which would be horrendous.
Cineplex is deciding not the play it. What is horrific is their cowardly response as to why, citing “content”. They don’t even have the decency to support their decision honestly.
As much as I see that in Canada, the UK is far ahead. Police do NOT visit citizens at their door warning them from speaking about Islam. We also didn’t cover up 1000 rapes.
We keep waiting for the movie to come to Mexico... and are still waiting.
Do you know if this film will be available on Netflix?
So much for ‘diversity’ of thought.
Ping to Semimojo.
Censorship is just as dangerous if it comes from private companies.
This is so outrageous, yet predictable.
Anyone know how the election in Penna is going?
Back to the Future.
It was given an R Rating to provide cover.
And most of the private companies concerned are not private companies, but publicly-traded corporations, regulated by the SEC. Operating in the private sector does not equal being a private company. IPO = Initial Public Offering.
So they should be forced to show the movie? What about other movies? Can anyone demand that their film be shown on a private businesses screens?
It's Canada. They ought to have freedom of speech and equal access, but they don't.
Should an American company be forced to show the movie? If they have a monopoly on theaters, and are censoring it because of the nature of it's speech, then yes, they should be forced to show it.
This is a sticky situation in which private property rights are in conflict with freedom of speech necessities. Movies are a little different than internet communications, so there is a better argument for allowing movie theater companies to exercise discretion.
But I am now convinced that we cannot continue as a free society if only one side of the political divide has access to the public while the other side does not.
What about other movies? Can anyone demand that their film be shown on a private businesses screens?
No. There must be some compelling free speech reason to interfere with the normal usage of private property. I think this movie qualifies, whereas ordinary run of the mill movies with no greater public purpose than entertainment do not.
Yes, my position on this is sloppy, but sometimes the real world is just sloppy.
DVDs are not available?
Churches are not doing showings??
There is an easy way to get around this ban.
First, take up collections in the US to mass produce Unplanned on DVD (assuming they give you the legal right to do so). Then put, say, 50 or 100 DVDs in thin paper sleeves in boxes, take the boxes across the border and give them to reliable churches in Canada, with the intent that they distribute them far and wide.
Just a few thousand such disks and they would be like Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”, and get everywhere.
The price of 1000 bulk DVDs with printed front in paper sleeves? Less than $1,500.00 USD.
Imagine the glee of throwing the left in Canada into a panic for that price?
Roger Ebert refused to review conservative films saying there just weren’t many of them anyway, they weren’t any good, and they didn’t pay anywhere near him.
Lies
Lies
Lies
And late in life he was busted writing a review of a movie he hadn’t even watched. He said it was the only time. Just like those teachers having sex with students. First time (caught).
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