“Left, Right” movie banned or correction / marginalization for box office sales?

According to a Fars News Agency cinema reporter, the screening of the film “Left, Right” directed by Hamed Mohammadi and produced by Manouchehr Mohammadi, which was scheduled to be released in early December, was met with fringes and various comments were made about it.

This film, which was made in Parvaneh in November 2017, is a political comedy starring Rambod Javan, Peyman Ghasemkhani and Soroush Sehat, but after the recent margins, its release was met with some ups and downs.

محمدرضا فرجی, The director general of the Cinema Organization’s Office for the Supervision of Film Release and Screening announced that the film “Left Right” will not be allowed to be screened until the amendments to the Screening License Council are implemented; While the union council agrees to screen the film. Manouchehr Mohammadi, the producer of the script, wrote to the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance and reacted to the decision.

The story did not end there Producers Union He also issued a statement condemning any revision, auditing, and expression of opinion and taste in licensed films, stating that for producers, owners and owners of material rights to Iranian cinema works, “screening license” is the season of speech, and any action and The decision to invalidate the screening license by the current directors, advisors and managers of the ministry is an insult to the law, the cinema organization and the cinema community as a whole.

* No modifications have been made to the movie

Mohammad Reza Faraji, in response to the rumors, stated that the film had been amended by the Screening Licensing Council in the previous government, some of which have not been amended since. The Cinema Organization’s emphasis is on solving the problems of filmmakers and owners of works, including the film “Left, Right”, in order to resolve some of the objections and problems raised by the previous screening license council and the review committee through mutual interaction. To be. Faraji stressed that it will not be shown to the public until the council’s proposed amendments are made.

He also said: In a meeting that was held on Saturday, December 18th, in the presence of Mr. Mohammadi in the office of the Deputy of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Cinema Organization, he was also informed that until the film is corrected, it will be shown by the Cinema Organization. There is no acceptance and there should be a plan to release it after making the announced corrections, so it is not possible to release this film until the film is corrected and reviewed by the Screening Council.

According to Faraji, some of the existing films needed to be corrected, some of which were released with the cooperation and interaction of the owners of the works, and some of which are about to be released.

* Margin for box office sales?

While this is not a new issue in Iranian cinema, it is possible that the creators of “Left, Right” did not make the amendments made by the previous government’s licensing council to send the ball to the current government’s licensing council. . At the same time, after the corrections are made, the margins and the flow of advertisements will ensure the sale of the film at the box office.

There are countless examples in Iranian cinema that did not find their way to the screen, and some of them were later either screened in a limited way, or entered the home theater network, or remained in the box forever. In fact, the implementation of legal reforms in films is not a new phenomenon in Iranian cinema.

حبیب ایل‌بیگی“According to Article 4 of the regulations and Article 6 of the screening license instructions, the cinema organization can prevent the screening of a film in certain cases, despite the screening license, until the sensitivities or bugs are resolved,” said the deputy director of monitoring and evaluation of the cinema organization. Although this sometimes happens occasionally but not comprehensively, it has happened over the past two or three decades and has been applied to films that moviegoers, especially the producers, are familiar with.

The rules may change at different times, but some seem to understand media games and riding on the waves better than the rules and regulations, and use media games to achieve their goals.

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