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Just a couple news updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/i> and the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> report that the Montreal World Film Festival has decided not<\/i> to show Karla<\/a><\/i> after all. \u201cHalf a dozen sponsors were going to pull their money,\u201d says one source. I wonder \u2014 did any of these sponsors make their decisions with, or without, having seen the film?<\/p>\n

2.<\/a> The New York Times<\/a><\/i> reports on the secrecy and controversy surrounding Ron Howard\u2019s adaptation of The Da Vinci Code<\/a><\/i>. Carl E. Olson<\/a>, Barbara Nicolosi<\/a> and Amy Welborn<\/a> \u2014 all of whom were interviewed for the story \u2014 have responded at their blogs.<\/p>\n

In the story, Nicolosi is quoted as saying, among other things: \u201cThe phrase I heard used several times was \u2018Passion dollars\u2019; they want to try to get \u2018The Passion\u2019 dollars if they can . . . They\u2019re wrong . . . It\u2019s sacrilegious, irreligious. They\u2019re thinking they can ride the \u2018Passion\u2019 wave with this. And I said, \u2018Are you kidding me?'\u201d<\/p>\n

I can see her point, but at the same time, I wonder how much of the box-office success of The Passion of the Christ<\/a><\/i> \u2014 which came out around the time The Da Vinci Code<\/i> became a phenomenal best-seller \u2014 was attributable to the fact that consumers are really interested in religious controversy for its own sake, and not necessarily out of a concern for religious orthodoxy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Lincolnshire Echo<\/a><\/i> reports that the producers have had difficulty finding extras for the shoot.<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says Miramax will try to get the R rating for its upcoming war movie The Great Raid<\/a><\/i> changed to a PG-13. Says outgoing Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein: \u201cThere have been a number of war films with comparable levels of violence that were given a \u2018PG-13\u2019 rating, including such films as \u2018Hotel Rwanda,\u2019 \u2018Master and Commander\u2019 and \u2018Pearl Harbor\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I am also reminded of the Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/i> films, which featured numerous amputations and decapitations; there were even rumours that the \u201cextended editions\u201d of those films would be rated R because they upped the gore quotient. In fact, a similar extended, four-disc edition of Pearl Harbor<\/a><\/i> is available on DVD \u2014 and that particular version is<\/i> rated R. So this is murky stuff.<\/p>\n

FWIW, The Great Raid<\/i> is rated 14-A in B.C.<\/a> and Ontario<\/a>, which is kind of like the PG-13, except we enforce the age restriction.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"