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PEN America Study Says Hollywood Increasingly Normalizing Self-Censorship to Appease China

PEN America Study Says Hollywood Increasingly Normalizing Self-Censorship to Appease China

PEN America Study Says Hollywood Increasingly Normalizing Self-Censorship to Appease China
Aug 06, 2020 1 min, 58 secs

PEN America published a scathing report Wednesday in which it said that Beijing is “creating a climate of self-censorship” in Hollywood, with studios routinely making compromises on free expression by changing the content of their movies that are intended for both American and foreign audiences.

“These concessions to the power of the Chinese market have happened mostly quietly, with little attention and, often, little debate.

Steadily, a new set of mores has taken hold in Hollywood, one in which appeasing Chinese government investors and gatekeepers has simply become a way of doing business,” the study says. “We have developed this report on Beijing’s influence over Hollywood because we believe this influence cannot be ethically decoupled from the Chinese government’s practices of suppressing freedom of expression at home.”.

Chinese government censorship is exerting influence on #Hollywood & the global filmmaking industry, posing a threat to #freespeech & artistic expression.

Both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Barr have spoken publicly about how the major Hollywood studios are sacrificing freedom of artistic expression in order to gain access to the Chinese market.

But Hollywood now regularly censors its own movies to appease the Chinese Communist Party, the world’s most powerful violator of human rights,” Barr said during a speech last month at the Gerald R.

While the book World War Z depicted the zombie plague as having begun at the hands of an incompetent and corrupt Chinese government, the movie moved the origin story to North Korea.

The price tags for these movies are so high that studios often can’t turn a profit unless the movie is released in China, the world’s second largest movie market.

As the Chinese box office market continues to outpace America’s, and as the relationship between Hollywood and Beijing becomes even more lopsided, the pressures on Hollywood studios to accede to CCP censorship will only increase?

But in order to get a Chinese release, a movie must pass muster with Chinese censors, who limit the number of foreign titles that play in local cinemas each year

PEN America wants Hollywood studios to pledge that the censored, Chinese-versions of their movies not become the default version of the films offered to global audiences. If that’s not possible, studios must “commit to publicly sharing information on all censorship requests received by government regulators for their films.”

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