"As the dragon gets bigger, its leverage gets bigger, and no one's pushed back yet," said Chris Fenton, Hollywood executive and lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.Īn increase in Sino-U.S. The 2015 sci-fi movie "Pixels" made it into China after removing a scene of aliens blasting a hole into the Great Wall, news reports said at the time. The 2021 superhero film "Spider-Man: No Way Home" missed Chinese approval because authorities wanted Sony Pictures to remove images of the Statue of Liberty from the film, several news outlets reported. The China Film Administration, an oversight body for the $7.4 billion market, banned Marvel Studios' 2021 superhero films "Eternals" and "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," which were released last year. Marvel Studios did not reply to VOA's questions about "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Liu Pengyu, spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in Washington, said, "As a country under the rule of law, China regulates the film industry in accordance with the Film Administration regulations." Liu, however, did not describe the process in detail. According to the op-ed, a news rack for The Epoch Times, a publication the writer calls "the mouthpiece of the Falun Gong," appears in the frame as Doctor Strange battles a tentacled monster. The state-affiliated Global Times tabloid published a scathing op-ed on the film Sunday, saying that it contains nods to Falun Gong, a spiritual movement Beijing has banned and labeled as a cult. It is unlikely that censors will allow the 2022 Marvel Studios movie "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" to be shown in China. Industry observers say censors are also asking that versions of movies for audiences outside China follow Beijing's script. "Now it's kind of escalated in the sense that they're much more direct in banning films outright rather than just tampering or asking for scenes to be removed," said Stanley Rosen, a University of Southern California political science professor who follows China's film industry. The roughly 25-year-old practice of cutting scenes that don't conform to Communist Party ideals from Hollywood movies has expanded. films as producers make movies with an eye toward pleasing Beijing yet without isolating the global audience, industry insiders say.
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