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Power Rangers out in Malaysia on Thursday with no cuts, distributor confirms

KUALA LUMPUR — The Power Rangers live-action film will be screened on Thursday (March 23) in Malaysian cinemas as scheduled with no cuts, its local distributor TGV Pictures confirmed on Wednesday.

'Power Rangers’ poster at a cinema in Kuala Lumpur on March 22, 2017. Photo: Malay Mail Online

'Power Rangers’ poster at a cinema in Kuala Lumpur on March 22, 2017. Photo: Malay Mail Online

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KUALA LUMPUR — The Power Rangers live-action film will be screened on Thursday (March 23) in Malaysian cinemas as scheduled with no cuts, its local distributor TGV Pictures confirmed on Wednesday.

Malaysian TGV Pictures marketing manager Grace Tan said the company has received “official approval” from the the Film Censorship Board (LPF).

“We are pleased to inform you that Power Rangers has passed the censorship in Malaysia with no cuts, rated P13,” she told Malay Mail Online on Wednesday afternoon.

“And yes, it will be screened on Thursday,” she added.

“Ticket sales will resume on Wednesday at all cinemas in Malaysia — TGV, GSC, MBO, LFS, MMC and many other independent cinemas,” she added.

LPF chairman Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid confirmed in a brief text message that the film was approved with a P13 classification and without cuts.

“Lulus bersih,” Mr Abdul Halim told Malay Mail Online in Malay, roughly meaning “approved unconditionally”.

“P13. No cut,” he added, saying that the film distributor had collected the approval certificate from LPF.

The LPF website, which had placed Power Rangers under its list of latest movies approved, on Tuesday stated the approval date as March 21 and listed it with a P13 classification.

A check on Wednesday afternoon shows the LPF website as stating the approval date for the Power Rangers film as March 22 and with other details unchanged.

According to the LPF website, a P13 classification means that viewers below the age of 13 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during viewing, with such movies containing elements such as horror, negative acts, non-excessive suspense elements, plotlines that are difficult to understand and elements that can disturb children’s emotion.

Earlier this week, The Hollywood Reporter reported Power Rangers as being the first superhero movie to feature a protagonist from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, citing movie director Dean Israelite as saying that the movie contains a scene where the female Yellow Ranger character named Trini realises that she is actually having “girlfriend problems” instead of “boyfriend problems”. MALAY MAIL ONLINE

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