Hollywood sold his soul to China
Toru Kusano Journalist living in the US
Hollywood movie soul is such a thing. ...... Neither dream nor hope
It is from the beginning of the exertion over 3 columns 8 pages.
Invisible invasion
Hollywood, a factory in America's "dreams", is exposed to intense "stealth invasion" (invisible invasion) by China.
While acquiring the US movie industry one after another, it is a strategic invasion to censor, severely restricting movie imports to his country.
With the spread of American culture to the world, Hollywood has made a greater contribution than any government agency.
There is one for anyone, a US movie that can never be forgotten.
You can see that Stalin envied "If I could dominate the American movie industry, I could convert the whole world to Communism", but the world is changing drastically.
Hollywood's "Flirt in China" that is strangled by the huge market of 1.3 billion people is a big problem. China's direct investment in Hollywood between 2000 and 2016 is about 9 billion dollars.
In particular, 2016 was more than double the total investment amount over the past 16 years.
That same year, due to the acquisition of Hollywood movie production company Legendary Entertainment (3.5 billion dollars) by Wanda Group, a major commercial real estate developer in China.
Legendary has produced big hits such as "Dark Knight" (2008) trilogy beginning with "Batman · Begins" (2005) and dinosaur panic "Jurassic World" (2015).
In 2012, Wanda Group acquired AMC Entertainment, the second-largest movie theater chain holding approximately 22% of the screen in the U.S.
In 2016, AMC acquired Carmike · Cinemas, fourth in the same industry.
With the merger of 2nd and 4th, it became the world's largest cinema chain, taking the lead as a leader through legal entertainment which was the first place so far.
Anything fierce "wad of bills offensive" is nothing but shocking, aside from such economic shocks, the fact that Chinese companies have now taken positions to control what movies in the US movie theaters are screening.
In 2013, the Wanda Group donated 20 million dollars to the movie museum (Los Angeles) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the Academy Award.
It wrote the movie history gallery as "Wonder Gallery" whether it was impressed by its generosity and the generosity of donations to the Academy.
Inconvenient truth
However, ordinary US citizens know little about the fact that Chinese companies have owned AMC and became the world's largest film entertainer.
It does not know much if the company owns a Legendary and it is a collaborative work with Universal Pictures and "Jurassic World".
Part of the current responsibility that the public is not aware of the dangerous trend is in the media.
Most American media write as Wang Jianlin chairman's title "businessman" "millionaire" "real estate industry owner" etc.
What is not written is Wang's former officer of the People's Liberation Army, the fact that it is a senior official of the Communist Party of China, and a lifetime member.
Also the Wanda group is also owned by the Communist Party government.
To ignore such "inconvenient truth", it seems to be helping the strategic intention "camouflage" trying to convert the dissemination ability to the world of Hollywood into the means of Chinese government's propaganda. Meanwhile, the number of Chinese cinema visitors in 2016 was 1.38 billion (9.5% increase from the previous year), exceeding the North American market for the first time.
The total number of cinema screens has increased to 42,052 (up 33% from the previous year), and the number of movie theaters where the new wing has been built at 27 pace a day also expanded to 7,853 (a 24% increase) at the pace of 27 pictures a day.
Hollywood wants to export movies to such a big market, but China restricts imports of foreign movies to 34 annually.
It will compete with a movie company that is going to be selected within 34 frames.
The possibility of "inappropriate payment" to Chinese officials also emerged in the process of competing.
In the spring of 2012, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent questionnaires to several movie production companies and alerted them.
And in order to be selected within the import quota, it must pass "censorship" by Chinese authorities.
About 40 censors from the Censor Bureau · National Radio Directorate General of Film and Television (SARFT) will monitor not only the production level, even from the stage of the script.
Those that collapse the social order, those that endanger the morals of society are also checked, and if you do not show it better than the actual situation for Chinese people, it will be a problem with SARFT.
China is already the world's second largest movie box office revenue, becoming the number one in the world is also a matter of time momentum.
Hollywood took an appeasement for censorship, unavoidably if the only way to screen American movies in China in the most important market.
This draft continues.
* Hollywood such as this is corrupting President Trump.
It is natural that I lost my interest in Hollywood movies and lowered the evaluation for such actors.*