The romantic drama It Ends with Us has been banned in Qatar due to intimate scenes, including kissing and a non-graphic sex scene. Blake Lively stars in the film, which is based on a Colleen Hoover novel.
Qatar has strict censorship rules, leading to the banning of various Hollywood movies with scenes involving kissing, non-graphic sexual content and LGBTQ content, such as Barbie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Eternals, No Hard Feelings, Lightyear, Onward and Anyone but You.
It Ends with Us deals with domestic abuse. Lily, a florist, faces emotional and physical abuse from her neurosurgeon husband, Ryle.
Despite a modest production budget of $25 million, the film directed by Justin Baldoni is expected to be a big hit in 2024 and has generated talks about a potential sequel.
According to some reports, Lively described Baldoni's approach to domestic abuse as "dismissive" and "chauvinistic."
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