Pinoys boycott ‘Abominable’; movie pulled out of PH theaters

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:11:31 +0000

THE character ‘Everest’ from the film ‘Abominable’ appears on the red carpet on Day 3 of the Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto last month. (AP)18

Filipinos have decided to boycott the animated film “Abominable” for containing scenes that government found just as abominable to the on-going dispute over territories in the West Philippine Sea.

Zamboanga Sibugay Rep. Ann Hofer, chairperson of the House Committee on Foreign Relations, said that Filipino moviegoers have apparently “decided on the question of whether the film deserves attention.”

Hofer said the movie had already been “pulled out of theaters due to poor viewership.”

“Consistent with the landmark 2016 Hague Ruling, I support the call of DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. for the producers of the film ‘Abominable’ to cut scenes that portray the now invalidated ‘nine-dash line’,” explained Hofer.

Aghast at the film that featured a map of the South China Sea with China’s nine-dash line claim, Locsin called for a “universal boycott” of all films made
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