Avenger's end game was the highest grossing film in chinese history. A number of big movies like black widow and shang chee a movie featuring marvel's first lead asian super hero, were rejected for release from china. The business models of every major studio have grown to rely on those chinese groses. And now it appears as though those groses are more uncertain than ever.
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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