Eyeing big China box office, Hollywood bows to censorship: Report

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The lure of the massive Chinese market has led Hollywood to readily self-censor its films to please Beijing, according to a new report by Pen ...

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WASHINGTON: The lure of the massive Chinese market has led Hollywood to readily self-censor its films to please Beijing, according to a new report by Pen America, an anti-censorship group.

Faced with blacklisting and other punitive measures, Hollywood producers are even censoring films not targeting the Chinese market, in order to not impact others planned for Chinese theaters, Pen America says. It says Beijing enforces one of the world's most restrictive censorship systems, and numerous members of the group's China arm have been jailed, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died in 2017 while serving an 11 year prison sentence.

That explained why former Disney chief executive Michael Eisner apologized to Beijing after it banned the 1997 film Kundun about the Tibetan Dalai Lama, the report said. Hollywood star Richard Gere says he is blacklisted by China in part because of his 1997 thriller"Red Corner," which depicts a corrupt Chinese justice system AFP/Jemal Countess

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