After pressure to ban Disney’s live-action take on Beauty and the Beast over a minor gay character, the film will instead be released with a 16+ rating.
The family movie, starring Emma Watson, will be given the restricted certificate to prevent children from watching because of the studio’s first “exclusively gay moment” involving a character played by Josh Gad.
Beauty and the Beast is on track to make $120m on its opening weekend in the US alone.
The film has also been taken off the schedule by an Alabama cinema because of the scene.