China plans to expand quota for Hollywood films

Bad news for China though. The Golden Rule here should be: as many Hollywood pictures in shown other countries as there are foreign films playing in the American theaters.


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Bad news for China though. [] The Golden Rule here should be: as many Hollywood pictures in shown other countries as there are foreign films playing in the American theaters.

Dude, do you realize there are 10s of thousand of films produced outside the United States per year?

Chris Hyams, the founder of indie film distributor and film festival submission company, B-Side Entertainment, estimated that based on individual entries from the thousands of festivals that used B-Side’s Festival Genius software to manage their websites that as many as 50,000 films were produced in 2009 – a number that terrifies Hollywood big-wigs.

http://www.themovingarts.com/50000-movies-are-made-every-year-is-that- too-many/

Your Golden Rule is utterly preposterous because American theaters don't have enough room to properly place even 1% of those movies.

So, that's the reason why all my neighborhood theaters are compelled to play the same tired set of major Hollywood studios releases over and over again. I feel like it's one long ceaseless film. I feel like I have absolutely no choice and naturally do not wish the same fate on the Chinese.


She is as dangerous as a rattlesnake, a cobra, and a black mamba rolled into one.

So, that's the reason why all my neighborhood theaters are compelled to play the same tired set of major Hollywood studios releases over and over again. I feel like it's one long ceaseless film. I feel like I have absolutely no choice and naturally do not wish the same fate on the Chinese.
With all of China's problems like aging population, gender disparity with more men than women, crime, rampant prostitution, pollution, tainted food, large-scale immigration amongst wealthy Chinese, and a plethora of other social and human rights issues, seeing Hollywood films dominate their movie theaters are the least of China's problems.

Due to the fact that I haven't been inside a movie theater since 2008, I don't see a problem with Hollywood dominating movie theaters. If your cinemas are dominated by major studio releases then just stop going and instead patronize retailers with a more diverse selection. The internet offers the most diverse selection of movies imaginable. I don't understand how people can complain about lacking choice when they have access to the internet. Last week, aside from American movies, I watched a Congolese action-thriller, a few South Korean TV dramas, an experimental Japanese arthouse thriller from the 90s filmed in black and white, a Brazilian romantic comedy based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, several Japanese animes, an Icelandic found footage horror movie, and plenty of other foreign films and shows.

So how can people complain about Hollywood dominating when I, a person who has never left America, has easy access to thousands films and shows made outside the U.S.? If you want suggestions on finding foreign shows and movies for cheap I can help you easily. But if you just wish to complain about Hollywood dominating but don't want to watch many non-Hollywood films, I have to say that's counterproductive.