Beauty and the Beast only allowed to be screened with cuts, says Nur Jazlan


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 18 Mar 2017

People standing near a promotional display for the film 'Beauty and the Beast' at a cinema in Singapore on Mar 14, 2017. - AFP

KLUANG: The Home Ministry will not entertain requests by the Walt Disney Company for Beauty and the Beast to be screened without cuts.

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said that the movie would be allowed to be screened only if Disney was agreeable to the Malaysian Censorship Board (LPF) censoring the offending scene.

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