Lighting Up the Stars’ Wins Weekend, ‘Thor 4’ in Limbo Over Suspected LGBTQ Censorship

The drama Lightning the Star took third place at the box office in China.

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Which sold tickets worth $27.8 million, for an astonishing total of $186.3 million and counting.

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But the film tells about the relationship between a funeral director and an orphan girl.

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But it did not face much difficulty while playing it.

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Because Marvel's Norse god Thor was not fully seen in this film.

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Chinese film actors are yet to give a release date for Taika Waititi's Love and Thunder.

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Two film sources in China tell The Hollywood Report that they think Pixlr's Lightyear will face the same number of troubles.

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Awarded no censorship protection because of a few brief scenes in the film with LGBTQ characters.

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