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| China: The Conquest of Hollywood |
| 2020-12-20 |
| Hat tip to powerlineblog.com. A rather long article about how the CCP is effectively censoring Hollywood. It makes a point about how China's film market has for 2020 climbed to $1.988 billion on Sunday, surpassing North America's total of $1.937 billion and how Hollywood wants so badly to get into that market. Nevermind that Hollywood could make a lot more money if they'd just make decent movies. Nevermind that Hollywood will sell it's soul and compromise its art for Chinese money. Oh well. An excerpt: [GatestoneInstitute] One Hollywood producer told PEN America that suggestions for projects critical of China aroused the fear that "you or your company will actively be blacklisted, and they will interfere with your current or future project. So not only will you bear the brunt [of your decision], but also your company, and future companies that you work for. And that's absolutely in the back of our minds." "It's not just the Hollywood issue, it's not just the tech issue, it's not just the basketball or the sports issue, or various other industries. ... It's all across the board. To get products and services into that market, there are certain rules you have to play... so they allow you access to the consumers. But those processes... have gotten worse and worse... and more amplified over time.... [It]has got to the point where we either need to stop it now and fight back, or we are just going to lose...." -- Chris Fenton, Hollywood executive and author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business. voanews.com, October 16, 2020. |
| Posted by:Abu Uluque |
| #7 How about making Hollywood move to China? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-20 08:56 |
| #6 The Oscars will be conducted in Mandarin with English subtitles |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-12-20 08:36 |
| #5 /\ American churches counterbalance declining US attendance with new converts in the Only a slight modification. As is frequently said here, "demographics do matter". |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-12-20 08:26 |
| #4 As the US commits economic suicide, those Chinese conquistadors will take over more than just Hollywood. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-12-20 08:25 |
| #3 Many US enterprises are giving up on the US market and look to China and the third world to salvage their growth. The auto manufacturers counterbalance declining profits in the US with increased profits from sales in China. American churches counterbalance declining US attendance with new converts in the global South. |
| Posted by: Bugs Prince of the Slytherins4008 2020-12-20 08:21 |
| #2 ...I think the real point here is this: here, the big chain theaters are collapsing, and IF they reopen, it will never be to the same extent as they once did. On the other hand, people in China are going to movie theaters and paying money. The studios are going to go where the money is and kiss their respective butts, all 1.393 billion of 'em. Nothing personal. Just business. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2020-12-20 08:05 |
| #1 It seems that West Coast plungers are no longer content with being rich. They are determined to be filthy rich. |
| Posted by: b 2020-12-20 07:29 |