Entertainment
Tom Cruise’s jacket is a little detail that says a lot about Hollywood’s craven attitude to China – Sydney Morning Herald
Hollywood is increasingly self-censoring in a bid to get a piece of the Chinese movie market.
Unless you’d read the book that the movie was based on, of course. In the telling by the American author, Max Brooks, the zombies were the result of a virus that originated in China. But in the 2013 retelling starring Brad Pitt, Paramount Studios executives demanded that this be excised. And it was.
Like all the big Hollywood studios, it’s anxious to get as many movies as possible approved for release in China. After all, this is the year in which China is expected to overtake the US to become …
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