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A cut version of Crocodile Dundee has premiered in Sydney without the transgender jokes
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 | 30th January 2025
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| See article from qnews.com.au |
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australia comedy adventure by Peter Faiman. Starring Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski and John Meillon.
 A 4K remastered and cut version titled Crocodile Dundee: The Encore Cut ,
premiered in Sydney in early 2025. It will be re-released in cinemas in May. In the new cut of the film, two and a half minutes of footage has been edited out.
- Among the moments removed is the scene in which Paul Hogan's Mick Dundee grabs a bar patron in the groin and declares that was a guy, dressed up like a sheila, while someone else yells 'faggot'.
- A callback to the scene later when Mick does
the same thing to a woman at a party, telling her, I was just making sure, has also been removed.
Paul Hogan agreed with those scenes and others being edited out of the film. He said: I heard about it years ago, it started, it wasn't about being woke. They pointed out to me and said, 'This guy is a folk hero around the world. He
shouldn't be groping people.' And I thought, 'Yeah that's right, he shouldn't be', so take it out. I mean, he did it in all innocence, in naivety, but it's better without it.
Production company Rimfire Films said:
Some years ago, Paramount Pictures and other distributors requested the reference to the crossdresser be edited from the original film, as they found it offensive. We agreed to that request.
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The latest video game to be banned by the Australian Censorship Board
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 | 4th December 2024
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| See article from refused-classification.com
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Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact is a 2025 Japan 3 on 3 tage team fighting game by Eighting Banned by the Australian Censorship Board in November 2024. The reasons have not yet been published. The Game was submitted to the censors
for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5.
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Australian film censor overrules a distributor rating for a pre-cut release of Gladiator II
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 | 26th November
2024
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Gladiator II is a 2024 US/UK/Morocco/Canada action adventure drama by Ridley Scott Starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal
 There are no censorship issues with this release in the US and UK. The film was pre-cut in Australia for a distributor applied M rated cinema release. The Classification Board later overruled this, and the cut version was uprated to MA15+.
Summary Notes After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the
glory of Rome to its people.
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 | UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for strong bloody violence, injury detail:
- 2024 Paramount Pictures UK cinema release (rated 09/10/2024)
Ireland: Uncut and IFCO 15A rated for strong action violence throughout with gory scenes and graphic injury detail, scenes of severed bodies and body parts:
- 2024 Paramount cinema release (2024 rated 27/09/2024) titled Gladiator 2
US: Uncut and MPA R rated for for strong bloody violence.:
- 2024 release (rated 28/08/2024) titled Gladiator Ii
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MA15+ (15A) rated for strong themes and violence:
- 2024 Paramount Pictures cinema release (rated 22/11/2024) titled Gladiator II
Australia: Pre-cut and distributor M (PG-15) rated for animal cruelty, blood and gore, injury detail and violence:
- 2024 Paramount Pictures Australia cinema release (rated 16/10/2024) titled Gladiator II
See article from refused-classification.com : On 16 October 2024, a 148-minute version
of GLADIATOR II received an M (Animal cruelty, blood and gore, injury detail and violence). Paramount Pictures Australia rated the film themselves as an Accredited Classifier Decision. It was identified as precut, to avoid an MA15+, after opening on 14
November. What was censored in the M-rated version? Tom S. reports the cuts he spotted. There may be other, less obvious trims:
Cut No. 1 203 Lucius (Paul Mescal) beheads his opponent at the first Roman games. The beginning is trimmed to remove the swords connecting with the head. It cuts into the shot midway to show the stump and a bit of blood spray.
Cut No. 2 203 Macrinus (Denzel Washington) slashing at the neck of Emperor Geta (Joseph Quinn). The initial long shot of the neck cutting and blood spray is missing. The following close-up is zoomed to the left to remove the
continued neck slashing and blood spray on the right. Cut No. 3 203 Macrinus puts a spike into the ear of Emperor Caracalla (Fred Hechinger). The red blood flowing from his ear is now green/yellow. M to MA15+ after one week
On 22 November, cinemas were informed that the Classification Board had increased it to MA15+ (Strong themes and violence). Advertising was updated to reflect the new rating. An Accredited Classifier Decision can be reviewed by the
Board to ensure the guidelines are followed. It is unclear if this was a random check or triggered by complaints.
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And finding it in draft Australian censorship codes
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 | 27th October 2024
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| See article from
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The Australian internet industry has produced draft censorship rules related to age/ID verification. The schedule is for these to come into force in 2025. One of the rules that has caught the attention is that search engines will be required to
age/ID verify users before links to porn or gambling sites sites can be provided. The draft codes will apply to websites, social media, video games, search engines, gaming companies, app developers and internet service providers, among others. As
is the case in most other countries, the authorities are refusing to specify exactly what age/ID verification mechanisms will be acceptable and will leave it to companies to take enormous commercial risks in guessing what mechanisms will be acceptable.
Examples of options include checking photo ID, facial age estimation, credit card checks, digital ID wallets or systems, or attestation by a parent or guardian. The codes have been developed by the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association
(Amta), the Communications Alliance, the Consumer Electronics Suppliers Association (CESA), the Digital Industry Group Inc. (Digi), and the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA). Dr Jennifer Duxbury, Digi's director for policy,
regulatory affairs, and research, told Guardian Australia that the group doesn't speak for the porn industry, and added: I can't predict what their reaction might be, whether they would withdraw from the market, or what's
the likely outcome.
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