Twenty minutes, including steamy sex scenes between Gong Li and Colin Farrell, will be cut from "Miami Vice" before it opens in China at the end of October, a Beijing newspaper reported Wednesday. A 120-minute version of the big-screen remake of the 1980s cop show will open on the mainland three months after its world premiere, the Beijing Morning Post said, citing official industry sources. Each year, China allows just 20 imported films to keep a percentage of their boxoffice take and maintains a tight watch over content, often cutting scenes that offend Communist Party censors.

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