"The scene shows the marriage of two men, played by Charlie Lees and MJ Dorning. Yet in the Chinese version, the face of one of the grooms had been swapped with that of a woman. Cinema goers who saw Together - which stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie - in mainland China at a screening on 12 September noticed the edit, and word of the change began to spread on social media."
"Last week, reports began circulating that the Chinese version of the recent horror movie had altered a brief gay wedding scene using AI to make the couple heterosexual. Now, the film's global distributor Neon has responded to the edited version, shared by Chinese distributor Hishow, and ordered for it to stop being shown. "Neon does not approve of Hishow's unauthorised edit of the film and have demanded they cease distributing this altered version," the company said in a statement on 24 September."
Neon demanded that Chinese distributor Hishow stop showing an unauthorised, AI-altered version of Together that changed a brief gay wedding scene to depict a heterosexual couple. The scene originally shows the marriage of two men, played by Charlie Lees and MJ Dorning, but in the Chinese cut the face of one groom was swapped with that of a woman. Cinema-goers at a 12 September mainland China screening noticed the edit and shared it on social media. Viewers criticized the change as making the film less coherent and disrespectful to the original work and the LGBT community. Deadline reported that Together was pulled from Chinese cinemas less than two weeks after its release.
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