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2022-01-24 China-Japan-Koreas

China's Censors Ban Hollywood Films As Beijing Builds Its Own "Movie Empire"

[Zero Hedge via Rantingly] Boot lickers get the boot.
Despite the franchises popularity with Chinese consumers, China's censors blocked all four of Disney's Marvel movies released last year from being shown in the Chinese market. The films contained nothing that would obviously anger China's censors (no references to Taiwan as an independent country were included in any of the four films), but as Axios points out, they were banned because of what they didn't include: mass messaging that would subtly support the CCP's long-term political aims.

According to Axios, the CCP leadership and President Xi have set an ambitious goal of making China a "strong film power" by 2035. In the title of its post, Axios also described it as a "movie empire". And how could they accomplish this goal if domestic films don't dominate in their own backyard? Clearly, US films pose a serious threat to this.

So instead, China's censors were given "the nudge" to raise objections about the films' unacceptable "political" overtones - despite the fact that these movies all take place in a fantasy universe with little bearing on humanity's reality.

This CCP-ordered crackdown doesn't bode well for Hollywood, which has long treated China like a critical growth market. "It's a real turning away from the global entertainment industry," said Rebecca Davis, China bureau chief for Variety, who was quoted by Axios.

Posted by Omolung Juns5303 2022-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [26 views ] Top
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#1 Hollywood: the endless source of useful idiots.

It warms my heart to know that they finlandized, they censored their own films without even being asked, and now they're getting the traitor's reward they deserve.

Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-24 03:49|| 2022-01-24 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Go woke, go broke. Heh(tm)

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-24 09:29|| 2022-01-24 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Boot lickers get the boot.

Love it!

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-01-24 09:43|| 2022-01-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 You look at the stupid excess of Hollyweird (and pro sports, and famous for being famous and influencers) salaries and then you think about every time you hear about a teacher having to buy paper and pencils out of pocket, and you may wish for a command structured economy. But emperical results show that,s no better and often worse. At the end of the day, if the people paying LeBron's and Kim Kardashian's salaries (not actually salaries, I know) and buying their overpriced stuff just made better decisions individually, there would be a lot less of the "inequity" that the lefties hit us all over the heads with all the time.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-24 10:00|| 2022-01-24 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 As any casual observer of China films over the last 5-10 years could have told you.

If you walked out of Midway thinking it was a pro-America film instead of and Anti-Japanese film defeated by stereotypical booze swinging Americans barely walking upright, you weren't paying attention.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-24 10:21|| 2022-01-24 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Act like someone's bitch, you will get bitchslapped out of the way.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-01-24 12:31|| 2022-01-24 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Ban Chinese films.

Posted by Dale 2022-01-24 14:12|| 2022-01-24 14:12|| Front Page Top

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