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Disney Had to Rename This Movie in Italy Because of a Famous Porn Star

Adult film actress Moana Pozzi evidently played a part in ‘Moana’ being retitled ‘Oceania’ for Italian audiences

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The animated Walt Disney musical Moana tells the story of a young girl named—you guessed it—Moana (Auli‘i Cravalho), the daughter of a Polynesian chieftain, who sets out to find the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in the hopes of saving her people. Or, that’s at least how somebody from the U.S. would explain the basics of the film. People living in Italy, on the other hand, know the movie and its lead character by totally different names. Over there, Disney released the film as Oceania, and Moana is known as Vaiana. 

Why the changes, you ask?........

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