{"id":15092,"date":"2014-03-08T12:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=15092"},"modified":"2014-03-08T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:18:10","slug":"noah-news-round-up-has-it-been-banned-overseas-already-plus-a-note-on-one-of-the-visual-effects-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/noah-news-round-up-has-it-been-banned-overseas-already-plus-a-note-on-one-of-the-visual-effects-companies.html","title":{"rendered":"Noah<\/i> news round-up: Has it been banned overseas already? Plus a note on one of the visual effects companies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>The other day, it was reported that three Muslim countries had banned Darren Aronofsky\u2019s Noah<\/i><\/a> \u2014 not necessarily because of its content, but simply because it offers a visual depiction of one of \u201cthe prophets\u201d. But now it turns out that reports of the film being censored in at least one of those countries might be premature.<\/p>\n

Gulf News<\/a> says the film has not yet been banned in the United Arab Emirates, and it quotes Juma Obeid Al Leem, a representative of the country\u2019s National Media Council, to the effect that \u201cWe haven\u2019t decided whether it\u2019s OK or not. We will decide after watching the full movie next week and after a report is made.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, very few people have seen the finished film. As of a week ago, the filmmakers were still putting the final touches to the sound mix, and the film has not yet been rated by any of the classification boards in Canada, the United States or Great Britain. However, the film will have its world premiere in Mexico City just two days from now, so if it isn\u2019t finished yet, it should be very very soon!<\/p>\n

In other news, The Wrap<\/a> reports that one of the visual-effects companies that worked on Noah<\/i> lost a lot of money on that film because it took longer to create the effects than they anticipated \u2014 but the company\u2019s co-founder says the studio was \u201cextremely supportive\u201d, and the financial loss has been covered by the profits the company made on other projects such as Game of Thrones<\/i>, The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/i> and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Stories like these are not uncommon. One famous visual-effects company, Rhythm & Hues, went bankrupt right around the time it won an Oscar for its work on Life of Pi<\/a><\/i>. The story of that bankruptcy \u2014 and the industry practices that led to it \u2014 is covered in the short documentary Life after Pi<\/i>, recently released on YouTube:<\/p>\n