{"id":1152646,"date":"2021-12-25T02:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1152646"},"modified":"2021-12-25T02:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:49:43","slug":"chinas-state-media-ramps-up-war-with-hollywood-distorted-values-causing-failure-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-state-media-ramps-up-war-with-hollywood-distorted-values-causing-failure-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s State Media Ramps Up War with Hollywood: &#039;Distorted Values&#039; Causing Failure in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinas-state-media-ramps-up-war-with-hollywood-distorted-values-causing-failure-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1152646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">In a sign of mounting animosity between China and Hollywood, a Chinese state-run newspaper blamed the U.S. entertainment industry\u2019s \u201cdistorted values\u201d on Thursday, and its failure to grasp Chinese culture, for China\u2019s decision to block the release of more Hollywood movies.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s <em>Global Times<\/em> also denied that politics has played a role in Beijing\u2019s refusal to grant release dates to a growing number of Hollywood blockbusters, including Disney-Marvel\u2019s <em>Black Widow<\/em>, <em>The Eternals<\/em>, and <em>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19252098\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SBT-25882_R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19252098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SBT-25882_R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) in Marvel Studios\u2019 SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. (Jasin Boland\/Marvel Studios)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHollywood falling into disfavor in [the] Chinese film market is mainly due to its distorted values of \u2018political correctness\u2019 and improper use of Chinese elements in their films,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243212.shtml\">article<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper disputed a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/hollywoods-china-relationship-finally-unraveled-1235062742\/\">story<\/a> from <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that cited deteriorating&nbsp;U.S.-China diplomatic relations as a reason for the stand-off.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is totally wrong,\u201d the<em> Global Times<\/em> said. \u201cThe fact that <em>The Matrix Resurrections<\/em> will be released in the Chinese mainland [China, excluding territories China illegally claims] on January 14, 2022, refutes this take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> said <em>The Eternals<\/em> represents Hollywood\u2019s \u201ctwisted political correctness\u201d taken to the \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19252122\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Eternals_profile_pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19252122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Eternals_profile_pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1700\" height=\"850\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The cast of Eternals. (Marvel Studios)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In one scene, a \u201cgay black superhero\u201d takes a knee and weeps after the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this film had been released in the Chinese mainland, one can only imagine what the reaction of Chinese moviegoers would be to this outrageous scene, especially amid China\u2019s National Memorial Day, a day of remembrance that pays tribute to the 300,000 casualties of the notorious Nanjing Massacre in WWII,\u201d the newspaper argued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> also cited Disney\u2019s live-action <em>Mulan<\/em>, which bombed in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s poor performance in the Chinese film market proves that trying to make a Chinese story without truly understanding Chinese culture cannot win the hearts of the Chinese audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China has traditionally limited the number of foreign movies that play on domestic screens. Hollywood studios have bent over backwards to please Chinese censors in the hopes of landing coveted release dates for their tentpole blockbusters, which need access to the world\u2019s largest movie-going market to break even on their bloated budgets.<\/p>\n<p>But Beijing is now cutting back on the number of foreign films in an effort to promote the Chinese film industry. As a result, many Hollywood blockbusters are now coming up short at the global box office.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign of mounting animosity between China and Hollywood, a Chinese state-run newspaper blamed the U.S. entertainment industry\u2019s \u201cdistorted values\u201d on Thursday, and its failure to grasp Chinese culture, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}