Lightyear

Lightyear is an American computer-animated science-fiction action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. A spin-off of the Toy Story film series, the film acts as an origin story for the character Buzz Lightyear. The film stars the voices of Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Taika Waititi, Peter Sohn, Uzo Aduba, James Brolin, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Efren Ramirez and Isiah Whitlock Jr. It was released in theaters June 17, 2022 in the United States, before releasing on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar on August 3, 2022.

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Censorship
A same-sex kiss between Alisha Hawthorne and her female partner got the film banned from cinemas in Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates, after Disney refused to cut the scene as requested by local censors. It was also banned in Kazakhstan after the country's Culture and Sports Minister responded to calls from local conservative and religious groups to ban the film.

This also caused Lightyear to be excluded from Disney+ Middle East despite the fact that Egyptian and Standard Arabic dubs were produced, although it was eventually released uncensored on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia and Malaysia along with the film's Indonesian and Malay dubs.

The film is also unlikely to be released in China, given that Disney declined to make several cuts requested by the country's censorship authority, which has been heavily censoring LGBT content in the media in recent years. Despite this, a Chinese Mandarin dub was released in early December 2022.