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After a week of controversy, UK multiplex chain Vue is set to remove its ban on showing gang movie Blue Story. The pic opened in the UK over the weekend via Paramount, grossing an impressive $1.7m (and we hear holds during the week have been strong), but was dogged by controversy after an incident at a Birmingham…

Rapman, real name Andrew Onwubolu, has hit out at UK multiplex chain Vue over its banning of his film Blue Story. The cinema said it had taken the measure after "25 significant incidents," following an initial widely reported incident involving a machete at a Birmingham site on Saturday (November 23) during the film’s…

UK artist/director Rapman, a.k.a Andrew Onwubolu, is set to direct Blue Story, a feature film which he also wrote based on his short video trilogy of the same name. Paramount Pictures acquired the worldwide distribution rights and is aiming to release the pic sometime this year. BBC Films developed and co-financed the…