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Does China control Hollywood?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Movies in China

In the nineties, studios started getting their movies into china. They could see what other movies got in or were rejected. And so very quickly you had this kind of data pool that you could at and say, well, this one didn't get in, or this one had to cut that scene. So we can, at the script level, start to change these films so we don't run into those problems. The example you alluded to was in two thousand nine. M g m wanted to remake red dawn, another classic of the v h s era,. He about a group of tenage vigilantes who want to defend their home town against soviet invaders.

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