Posted on 08/07/2020 3:48:32 AM PDT by Libloather
Hollywood bosses have been censoring films to placate the film market in China, a report has suggested.
The lengthy report says US film companies want to avoid losing access to China's lucrative box office market.
It said casting, content, dialogue and plotlines were increasingly being tailored to appease censors in Beijing.
The report, compiled by the free speech charity PEN America, claimed China was therefore influencing movies released in cinemas around the world.
China holds the world's second largest box office market behind the US.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, American films earned $2.6bn (£2bn) in China last year, with Disney's Avengers finale, Endgame, making $614m (£466m).
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The report said that Marvel's 2016 superhero film Dr Strange whitewashed a major Tibetan character for fear of jeopardising the title's chances of success in China.
The forthcoming Top Gun sequel, Maverick, was also criticised for the "mysterious disappearance of the Taiwanese flag" in a 2019 trailer.
"Our biggest concern is that Hollywood is increasingly normalising pre-emptive self-censorship in anticipation of what the Beijing censor is looking for," said James Tager, author of the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
No Shiite. Won’t see any movie with Communist Chinese production credits. South Park earlier this year hit a home run with “Band in China”
AMC the largest movie theater chain in the world is owned by China.
Hollywood has sold America out for a few pieces of silver.
Given the makeup of Hollywood this is no surprise.
Joe Biden helped his son Hunter get billion dollar deals in China.....but Joe's biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of the American entertainment industry.
Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden, he watched a Lakers game, and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students study in the Communist dictatorship.
“I can say with confidence my visit has been a full success,” Xi declared.
In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government. Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control Hollywood.
In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor with a South African geneticist.
China could not be offended. While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot, human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.
Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities, police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone, and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of people, our rights are gone. And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out the country he now seeks to rule.
China owns Hollywood. Bank on it.
Hollywood Producer, Director, and Actor, John Paul Rice, confirms in this video that recent pedophilia and trafficking reports are credible. His experiences and research also point to serious problems plaguing Hollywood which include big name stars, directors, and Hollywood moguls. His latest movie, “A Child’s Voice”, which you can currently view on Vimeo, depicts a child trafficking ring that operates inside of Hollywood.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UlAHrTJZ6HJF/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebMKVMRNFZw&t=351s
Hollywood sold out decades ago.
Joe McCarthy was right, it’s just that the left overwhelmed him and he could not come up with enough solid evidence.
They don’t even try to hide this. The Red Dawn remake was supposed to be China, not the Norks. Obviously China did not like that...
Nothing new. I remember fifty five years ago when Hollywood would release different versions of movies in different parts of the USA, and Europe.
Former US Senator Chris Dodd is Biden's best friend.......and is especially well-connected. After The Swamp, in 2011 Dodd then went to Hollywood to become the Motion Picture Association of America chairman— Hollywood's top lobbyist — representing the six major studios.
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How Joe Biden won friends in Hollywood by helping studios get their movies into China
By EVAN HALPER, LA TIMES STAFF WRITER , JULY 18, 2019
Xi Jinping, then the vice president of China, speaks with then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then governor of California, watches a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center in 2012. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians — and to then-Vice President Joe Biden — to lobby Xi for access to the Chinese market.
Xi Jinping, then the vice president of China, speaks with then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then governor of California, watches a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center in 2012. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians — and to then-Vice President Joe Biden — to lobby Xi for access to the Chinese market.(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options
WASHINGTON — When then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a five-day diplomatic blitz in 2012, a Hollywood Democratic mega-donor kept popping up with them. There was Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the head of DreamWorks Animation, dining alongside Xi, the then-vice president of China, at a State Department welcome lunch in Washington. And there he was again, standing just behind Xi, then-Gov. Jerry Brown and then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a Lakers game in Los Angeles. And there was Katzenberg hanging out in a nearby hallway with Disney CEO Robert Iger to provide last-minute counsel as Biden closed a deal in which China committed to considerably expand its market for American films.
On the final day of Xi’s visit, Dreamworks announced Xi had signed off on the company’s own deal — the launching of Oriental DreamWorks, a $330-million joint venture with Chinese companies to develop and distribute animated films in China.
Several of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination have significant support in Hollywood — Katzenberg, for example, has kicked in $2,800 each to 14 of them already — but none has as long a history of delivering for the industry as Biden.
His deep ties to studio executives and decades-long advocacy for their agenda has helped cement Biden’s support even as it may also open him to criticism for too cozy a relationship with big donors.
Biden is returning to Hollywood this week for another round of fundraisers, including the second Biden event co-hosted by Katzenberg and leaders of several major studios. Biden’s first Southern California fundraiser, which Katzenberg co-hosted in May, netted more than $700,000 in one night.
“Joe was our champion inside the White House,” said former Sen. Christopher Dodd, who led the Motion Picture Assn. of America for much of the Obama era.
“There is no question about it. Even before Joe Biden decided to run, I would get calls and have conversation with the major studio figures, with them saying, ‘You tell Vice President Biden 100% we want him to run.’ This wasn’t waiting around to see who would do well in polls.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-07-17/joe-biden-money-hollywood-studios-china
from link:
When then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a five-day diplomatic blitz in 2012, a Hollywood Democratic mega-donor kept popping up with them. There was Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the head of DreamWorks Animation, dining alongside Xi, the then-vice president of China, at a State Department welcome lunch in Washington. And there he was again, standing just behind Xi, then-Gov. Jerry Brown and then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a Lakers game in Los Angeles. And there was Katzenberg hanging out in a nearby hallway with Disney CEO Robert Iger to provide last-minute counsel as Biden closed a deal in which China committed to considerably expand its market for American films.
I suspect China was “Biden & Friends” private cash cow...
Report suggests?! We’ve known this as an absolute fact for over a decade. People have openly talked about it. Anybody acting like this is new, or frankly even interesting, is playing the fool.
Biden’s campaign for the Presidency is a test to determine whether bending a knee to China and Hollywood can buy the Presidency.
Kind of ironic that China’s export of the virus is now killing Disney’s theme parks. Plus the BLM violence and over-the-top sports-politics is tanking Disney’s ESPN, the NBA, and the NFL.
Yesterday we heard NBC/Comcast is having a round of layoffs. Will Disney’s ABC be the next MSM heavyweight to take a few lumps?
The Democrats, MSM, and Biden have been betting on China and helping “oppressed” ethnic groups. In fact, selling out to China is of the biggest factors in creating oppressed work opportunities.
But President Trump has been cheerleading America’s workers, the same people who no longer like politicized sports and fake news.
There’s some sweet justice in the way things are turning out for Sleepy Joe and his lapdogs.
One helluva picture there, Liz. I wouldn’t shed a tear if Katzenberg relocated to China. Not sure what he’s done since Lion King. Walt Disney is looking down in disgust at what the destruction these Hollywood companies have done to America.
BLM is turning out to be the Fickle Finger of Fate......turning on the very people intended to benefit from it.
EXCELLENT TAKE-—Biden’s campaign is a test to determine whether bending a knee to China and Hollywood can buy the Presidency.
Biden didn't have to 'be careful' because he had a "D" next to his name and the corrupt press, corrupt FBI and corrupt liberal judges would give him a pass...
He would know that...
That makes it more likely he was sloppy and it'll be easier to connect dots in the future.
No question.
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