The Department of Foreign Affairs said that the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board pulled out the Hollywood action movie “Uncharted” and pulled out the Hollywood film ‘Uncharted’ over its depiction of China’s nine-dash claim.
The DFA said that it has requested the MTRCB to re-evaluate and pull out the action movie starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg because it is contrary to the national interest.
“MTRCB stated that it had ‘ordered Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. to cease and desist from exhibiting the said motion picture, unless and until they are able to remove the objectionable scenes’, the DFA said in a statement.
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“The nine-dash claim is contrary to national interest, which has been settled in the 2016 Arbitral Award. The Arbitral Tribunal held that China’s nine-dash line has no legal basis as its accession to UNCLOS has extinguished any of its rights that it may have had in the maritime areas in the South China Sea. China also never had historic rights in the waters within the nine-dash line,” the DFA added.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of the Philippines debunking China’s nine-dash claim in the South China Sea.
In 2019, the DFA sought to prohibit the screening of the animated movie “Abominable” after a scene showing the Chinese nine-dash line.
