In the first half of the show, you told us how hollywood tied its fortune to the chinese box office. But we left off around two thousand and 14. That was when transformers, age of extinction hit the theatres. And then there was a big political shift because he launched a trade war with china. How did the politics affect the movie business? Well, it came at a terrible time,. Around 20 16 or 20 17, hollywood was all in on china.
Warner Bros. is censoring the newest Fantastic Beasts movie for Chinese audiences. It’s the latest reminder that Hollywood’s reliance on China comes at a cost.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, and hosted by Noel King.
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