Chris Fenton
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150 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 9 Jul
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There's obviously the political ideology that's been infiltrating Hollywood storytelling for a long time.
But when we were first coming online in that market, I mean, 1997 was the shot heard around the world where China said, you can't make anything that has any sort of derogatory or offensive content in it.
And that's when we saw...
Seven Years in Tibet, Kun Dun, various other movies that were banned, and all the people involved in those movies were banned also.
We knew that we had to not only make things that weren't offensive to Beijing, but actually please them in terms of bringing the global narrative and messaging
out not just to their own people, but around the world, which was really nefarious when you think about it.
Movies like, say, Looper that I was involved with, and in fact, one of your earlier guests talked about it and you were riffing about it in between segments, was this idea that we actually had lines in there where we actually took the future of that movie out of France.
We made it
We changed the whole script to do that in order to please Beijing.
And then we actually had Jeff Daniels tell Joseph Gordon-Levitt as he slammed his fist down on a table.
He said, I'm from the future.
You want to move to China simply to say the future is where the weight of the world is moving to the east.
And China was going to be the leader of the world at that point.
Well, the good thing is that, I mean, it's the silver lining.
We've lost the golden goose of the China market.
In fact, when we made Looper, you would see in 2012, anywhere from like 80 cents to the dollar, sometimes even more than that, 80 cents of every dollar that was made in that market was a Hollywood film.
Cut to today, it's less than 5%.
So we've lost the market.
That's because we taught them the best in class talents and the expertise that it takes to make movies.
And they're making their own movies for their own market way better than we can because it's way more relevant.
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