{"id":634618,"date":"2010-01-19T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89305"},"modified":"2010-01-19T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:41:34","slug":"%e2%80%9cavatar%e2%80%9d-pulled-from-chinese-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/634618","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAvatar\u201d Pulled From Chinese Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is China pulling <em>Avatar<\/em> from theaters because it&#8217;s too popular? Moviegoers in the Asian nation who haven&#8217;t already seen James Cameron&#8217;s Golden Globe-winning sci-fi epic will find it more difficult to see the film, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100119\/ap_en_mo\/as_china_avatar\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Avatar-Climbs-To-No-2-At-All-Time-Box-Office-500x212.jpg?resize=500%2C212\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avatar Climbs To No 2 At All-Time Box Office\" width=\"500\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-87881\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-89305\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The box office smash is already the highest-grossing movie of all time in the communist nation, earning $76 million, but the government has decided to remove Avatar from 1,628 2D screens this week. China&#8217;s state-run movie distributor China Film Group is replacing the box office hit with a biography about Confucius starring Chow-Yun Fat, according to <em>The Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Chinese fans will still be able to view <em>Avatar<\/em> on almost 900 3D screens.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a 42-year-old Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure died while watching the blockbuster in a Chinese theater last week. Doctors believe his fatally stroke was likely triggered by &#8220;over-excitement&#8221; from seeing the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is China pulling Avatar from theaters because it&#8217;s too popular? Moviegoers in the Asian nation who haven&#8217;t already seen James Cameron&#8217;s Golden Globe-winning sci-fi epic will find it more difficult to see the film, according to The Los Angeles Times. The box office smash is already the highest-grossing movie of all time in the communist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2F5M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}