US Report Says Hollywood Adapts Films For Chinese Censors

Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay award of the Asian Film Awards in Macau, Thursday, March 17, 2016.
Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay award of the Asian Film Awards in Macau, Thursday, March 17, 2016. Kin Cheung / AP Photo
Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay award of the Asian Film Awards in Macau, Thursday, March 17, 2016.
Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay award of the Asian Film Awards in Macau, Thursday, March 17, 2016. Kin Cheung / AP Photo

US Report Says Hollywood Adapts Films For Chinese Censors

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Hollywood regularly changes its films—everything from dialogue to story line—in order to pass the Chinese censors. That’s according to a new report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which monitors bilateral trade between the United States and China.

But filmmakers in China like director Jia Zhangke, learn to work around the censors. Worldview film contributor Milos Stehlik joins us to talk about the relationship between Hollywood and China and Zhangke’s latest film “Mountains May Depart.”