Rebecca Davis editorMove over, “Nomadland” — Italy’s “Pinocchio” is now set to become the first film nominated at this year’s Oscars to hit China.Although Chloé Zhao’s film nabbed best picture and two other major prizes at the Academy Awards on Sunday, it was pulled quietly from its planned China release on April 23 in the wake of nationalist backlash against her there.
This means that Matteo Garrone’s live-action “Pinocchio” is the first of the movies recognized by the Academy this year to get a Chinese theatrical run.
It will hit theaters on June 1, Children’s Day.An adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s original 1883 book “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” it earned Oscar nods for costume design, and makeup and hairstyling this year.
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