Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan' Gets Last-Minute Screening at Beijing Festival

10:06 AM PDT 4/25/2011 by Jonathan Landreth

A print flown in from Taiwan allowed the film to go on as scheduled during Beijing's inaugural film festival.

BEIJING – Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar-winning Black Swan nearly sank before it soared at the First Beijing International Film Festival on Monday, when a glitch with the digital “print” caused distributor 20th Century Fox to rush a 35mm version in on a flight from Taiwan and let Chinese censors cut it at the last moment.