U.K. Theater Chain Pulled Film About Gang Violence After ‘25 Significant Incidents’

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Vue Pulled ‘Blue Story’ Film About Gang Violence in the U.K. After ’25 Significant Incidents’

A highly publicized mass brawl outside a cinema showing “Blue Story,” a London-set movie about two friends and the effects of gang violence, was one of 25 separate incidents involving the film at 16 of its venues, according to the Vue cinema chain, which pulled the movie from all of its theaters in the wake [...]Academy Awards buzz is hard to bottle, but you know it when you hear it. For most movies, the Oscar bees start buzzing early on, turning awards chatter into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

BBC Films and Paramount have defended Andrew Onwubolu’s “Blue Story” as a powerful film about gang violence after a mass brawl marred a weekend screening of the movie and caused at least two cinema chains to pull it from their theaters. The fight Saturday outside the Star City entertainment complex in Birmingham, in central England, [...

 

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Violence on TV...this sounds like the cliche my parents warned us about as kids. Oh look at that, they were right. Thanks mom, thanks dad.

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