The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday, Feb. 1, edition that movie exhibitors, including Cineplex, have pulled screenings of a South Indian-language film across Canada following incidents of intimidation related to Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam blockbusters. The Globe's Joe Castaldo writes that videos show a person shooting a gun multiple times through the passenger window of a vehicle at Cineplex locations in Scarborough and Vaughan. In a separate video, the driver of the vehicle fires at a Cineplex in Brampton. York Cinemas, a theatre in Richmond Hill, Ont., was also hit by gunfire. The incidents occurred in the early morning hours, when the theatres were closed. The videos were e-mailed to a few theatres and film distributors just ahead of the Jan. 24 premiere of Malaikottai Vaaliban, a fantasy-action epic. Cineplex pulled the movie, as did CineStarz, which owns six theatres in Ontario and Quebec. Film distributors have contended that a turf war is being waged and that a group of individuals is trying to control the lucrative market for South Indian-language films in Canada using vandalism and intimidation to press theatres and distributors to drop certain titles and ensure the films run in favoured cinemas.