Luke writes Chinese Influence On Hollywood

Today In this special segment we talk about the Chinese Influence over Hollywood  

China has become one of the leading markets in world cinema , in 2018  2 out of top 5 movies around the world are from china .Most importantly in this review we  are not focus about Chinese cinema but on the influence and power china hold on Hollywood .

In 2016 China bring 6.6 Billion for Hollywood out of 38.6 billion from worldwide. USA total; box office was 11.4 Billion in this rate in next 10 years china can be a largest  market for Hollywood and even surpass America for American movies . One thing that has hold china   so far is the government regulations put in China specially the Quota system where only 34 foreign language movies can be screen for whole year (including American, Indian, and other Asian movies)   This  initiative try to save the local film industry from Hollywood movies .   Most of the  Hollywood blockbusters open month late in China most of the times except for the onces which post production done in China .

Many Hollywood movies have changed some aspects in order to play in china “World War Z” deleted a line in which characters debate whether the zombie pandemic sweeping the world originated in China. The arcade game film “Pixels” lost a scene where aliens blast a hole in the Great Wall. And in the most absurd recent example, Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” featured the white British actress Tilda Swinton playing a Tibetan character, because the film’s screenwriter C. Robert Cargill felt that would be less controversial than casting someone who looked ethnically Chinese or Tibetan.

Many movies such as Transformers which is failing now in America running success because of china so the film it self added a whole act for Chinese bait  .it is important to point of that Pacific Rim which is hugely unsuccessful in America was saved by china and even went into making a sequel thanks to the Chinese Wanda group buying the Legendary pictures  . Anyway china’s billionaires plans were halted recently due to government crack down ,  China’s Dalian Wanda Group, which has in recent years aggressively sought to invest heavily in Hollywood, has now halted any plans for overseas investment, according to the company’s chairman Wang Jianlin Speaking to Chinese financial outlet  the Chinese billionaire said that Wanda would instead switch its investment focus to the domestic market after the recent regulatory crackdown that has hit the company.

In 2016, screenwriter Cargill explained why “Doctor Strange” censored itself: “If you acknowledge that Tibet is a place,” he said, “you risk alienating one billion people.”

Another important factor is the only 13% of the box office earning in china  can be taken back to Hollywood studios until very recently now they agree to give 25% of total box office earning .

With all those aspects its has been clear that Chinese cinema can sustain without America due to their population but it’s questionable  the Hollywood’s ability to sustain without China