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Does China control Hollywood?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

What's Happening in the Chinese Movie Theatre?

Every movie that wants to show china has to be approved for release by the chinese communist party. There are political topics that are complete non starters for this group, right? No studio is going to get in a movie about the dolly lama or any reference to chinese history that the authorities would rather their people not see. So basically what that meant was that the chinese market was really only receptive to a certain kind of american movie.

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