The new ‘Ghostbusters’ movie has been denied a release in China

Paul continued: “If you know Kate at all she’s this kind of pansexual beast where it’s just like everybody who’s around her falls in love with her and she’s so loving to everybody she’s around”.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Sony says no decision has been made yet on whether “Ghostbusters” will be allowed to be released in China. If you’re in China, it won’t be the Ghostbusters.

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot has been enjoying generally decent/good reviews (you can check out ours here), and looks set for a very respectable opening weekend at the US box office – but THR is reporting on some news that might just put a dampener on the positivity parade.

Thirty years after the original film took the world by storm, Ghostbusters is back and fully rebooted for a new generation.

There are rumours that the country feels it’s simply not for them: “Most of the Chinese audience didn’t see the first and second movies, so they don’t think there’s much market for it here”, an unnamed movie executive said.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures are likely to have removed the word “ghost” from the movie’s Chinese title in order to avoid a potential censorship issue. The rule is a holdover from the secular ideology of the Communist Party, and has previously been cited as the rationale for banning films like Disney’s 2006 sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts are also all confirmed to cameo.

In the movie, Holtzmann does openly flirt with and suggestively wink at fellow Ghostbuster Erin, played by Kristen Wiig.