{"id":1353441,"date":"2022-03-01T20:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T01:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353441"},"modified":"2022-03-01T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T01:36:13","slug":"cannes-film-festival-blocks-russian-delegations-paramount-halts-russian-release-of-sonic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cannes-film-festival-blocks-russian-delegations-paramount-halts-russian-release-of-sonic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Film Festival Blocks Russian Delegations, Paramount Halts Russian Release of \u2018Sonic 2\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcannes-film-festival-blocks-russian-delegations-paramount-halts-russian-release-of-sonic-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME (AP) \u2014 The cultural backlash against <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-abc3e297725e57e6052529d844b5ee2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine <\/a>intensified Tuesday as the Cannes Film Festival said no Russian delegations would be welcome this year and the Venice festival announced free screenings of a film about the 2014 conflict in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas region.<\/p>\n<p>The announcements by Europe\u2019s two premier film festivals came on the heels of other high-profile protests in the arts, including <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-entertainment-business-arts-and-entertainment-76775cc10649f543d4278c3037e4529d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Hollywood\u2019s decision to pull films scheduled for release in Russia<\/a> and the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-entertainment-business-munich-1a804383b8ae54df96a3f1d3ba1cb378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Munich Philharmonic\u2019s decision to fire chief conductor Valery Gergiev<\/a>. The orchestra, joined by other orchestras and festivals linked to Gergiev, cited his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his refusal to reject the invasion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cannes, which is scheduled for May, is the most global of film festivals and its international village of flag-waving pavilions annually hosts more than 80 countries from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, festival organizers said the ban on any official Russian delegation or individuals linked to the Kremlin would remain \u201cunless the war of assault ends in conditions that will satisfy the Ukrainian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20069114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-74326590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20069114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-74326590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>An aerial view of the red carpet is pictured during the premiere arrivals for the film \u2018We Own The Night\u2019 at the Palais des Festivals during the 60th International Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2007 in Cannes, France. (MJ Kim\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The festival didn\u2019t rule out accepting films from Russia. In recent years, Cannes has showcased films from filmmakers like <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-entertainment-health-government-and-politics-russia-1f2b530f4c270935136c583a359994f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Kirill Serebrennikov, even though the director hasn\u2019t been unable to attend<\/a>. Serebrennikov is under a three-year travel ban after being accused of embezzlement by the Russian government in a case that was protested by the Russian artistic community and in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood continued pulling its films out of Russian theaters. After the Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. and Sony announced they would halt distributing films in Russia, including Warner\u2019s highly anticipated \u201cThe Batman,\u201d Paramount Pictures announced likewise on Tuesday. That includes upcoming releases like \u201cSonic the Hedgehog 2\u201d and \u201cThe Lost City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The Venice Film Festival, meanwhile, said it was organizing free screenings of the film \u201cReflection,\u201d about the conflict in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas region as a sign of solidarity with the people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The screenings are scheduled for next week in Rome, Milan and Venice.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which was presented in competition at Venice last year, tells the story of a Ukrainian surgeon who is taken prisoner by Russia during the Donbas conflict in eastern Ukraine. In 2014, Russia threw its weight behind an insurgency in the mostly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine region known as Donbas, where Russia-backed rebels seized government buildings and proclaimed the creation of \u201cpeople\u2019s republics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReflection\u201d shows the horrors of war as well as the surgeon\u2019s efforts to rebuild relationships after he was freed.<\/p>\n<p>It was directed by Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych, whose film \u201cAtlantis\u201d in 2019 was also set in eastern Ukraine and dealt with similar issues of war and trauma. \u201cAtlantis\u201d won the Best Film award in the experimental Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival 2019 ad was Ukraine\u2019s candidate for the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the art exhibition of the Venice Biennale, of which the annual film festival is a part, announced the curator and artists of Russia\u2019s pavillion had quit their positions to protest the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the European Broadcasting Union announced <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-europe-italy-a76541b100ab109af383fd8c64d64742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Russia would not be allowed to enter an act for this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest<\/a>, to be held in Turin in May.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 winner of the Eurovision contest was Ukrainian singer Jamala, who won with a song about the 1944 deportations of Crimean Tatars by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. On Tuesday, it emerged that she had fled Ukraine for Turkey with her own two children.<\/p>\n<p>A Crimean Tatar, Jamala told reporters in Istanbul that she never imagined that she would end up sharing the same fate as her grandmother, who she said \u201chad just 15 minutes to pack\u201d during the forced deportations of 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The singer said she left Kyiv for Ternopil, in western Ukraine, where she thought her family would be safe, but decided to cross into Romania when she woke up to the sound of explosions there too. Her husband, like all men aged 18-to-60, remained in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (AP) \u2014 The cultural backlash against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine intensified Tuesday as the Cannes Film Festival said no Russian delegations would be welcome this year and the Venice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}