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‘Top Gun 2’ Risks China’s Fury After Keeping Taiwan Flag on Jacket
Taiwanese audiences cheered during a screening of “Prime Gun: Maverick” on seeing the Taiwan flag. The Taiwan and Japan flags ended up replaced in a 2019 trailer for the film, seemingly to appease China. On the other hand, the flags on Maverick’s jacket surface to have been restored in the reduce screened in Taiwan. Loading A thing is loading. Taiwanese audiences erupted in cheers throughout an progress screening of “Top Gun: Maverick” following the overall look of the iconic bomber jacket worn by Tom Cruise’s titular character. According to community on the web media outlet SETN, viewers had been “moved, amazed and delighted” upon sighting the Taiwan flag on the…
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How China’s economic power leads to self-censorship in Hollywood : NPR
Audience members sit separately for social distancing at a cinema in China’s eastern Zhejiang province in July 2020. AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AFP via Getty Images Audience members sit separately for social distancing at a cinema in China’s eastern Zhejiang province in July 2020. AFP via Getty Images Today’s Hollywood blockbusters are specifically being crafted to appeal to Chinese audiences — and pass muster with the Chinese government — according to Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel. He highlights a few notable situations of product placement: In the 2014 film Transformers: Age of Extinction, Mark Wahlberg’s character withdraws money from a China Construction Bank ATM —…
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Entertainment News Roundup: Korean War blockbuster set to become China’s highest-grossing film; Jay-Z leads list of most-nominated artists in Grammys history and more
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Korean War blockbuster set to become China’s highest-grossing film The box office takings of the Chinese patriotic film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” hit 5.69 billion yuan ($891 million) on Wednesday, putting it in position to become China’s highest-ever grossing film, data from online movie ticket booking platform Maoyan showed. The box office takings by Wednesday had hit the same level as the revenue earned by the 2017 Chinese action film Wolf Warrior 2. But “The Battle at Lake Changjin” is still in cinemas and accounted for 7{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6} of all films being shown on Wednesday. Jay-Z leads…
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