DUBAI : The United Arab Emirates will not screen Sony's 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse', Vox Cinemas said on Thursday without explanation, amid debate online and among regional movie fans about the animated film's treatment of transgender themes.The film, a sequel to 2018's Oscar-winning 'Spider-Man
DUBAI : The United Arab Emirates will not screen Sony's"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", Vox Cinemas said on Thursday without explanation, amid debate online and among regional movie fans about the animated film's treatment of transgender themes.
Major cinema chains in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain do not list the movie on their websites'"coming soon" sections, including Vox, Novo, and Reel cinemas. "I'm with the directive of not showing this movie. We don't want to show the next generation that this is something normal. It's not normal, our religion told us that there's only male and female genders," Abdullah Al-Oufi, a Saudi, told Reuters in Riyadh.
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