Arab Cinemas Won't Mess with "Zohan"

Pic, in which Sandler plays a former Mossad agent who escapes to New York and ends up working in a Palestinian-American woman's hair salon, has been banned by censors in Egypt, Lebanon and the U.A.E.

Pic's Mid East distrib, Circuit-Empire, is still circulating a print around the region's remaining censorship boards but aren't holding their breath.

"It is 99% likely that the film will be banned in all Arab countries," says Circuit-Empire's Bassam Eid.