Marshal Amsager here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Happy Tuesday everyone. Welcome back to the show. Look, this is gonna be a super straightforward

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Favorite topic Hollywood future entertainment streaming movie theaters China

We've got Eric Schwarzel of the Wall Street Journal on to discuss red carpet Hollywood China

In the global battle for cultural supremacy. This is basically the second time we've spoken to someone from the Wall Street Journal about

Hollywood streaming we had Ben Fritz on last winter. It's not really spring

So definitely listen to that episode right afterwards, but soccer what do we cover? Why is this interesting all good stuff?

Yeah, I absolutely love this episode Marshall and the reason why is because he is able to show us both the history of Hollywood in China

Then tell us a little bit about what happened after the

Turning points what they were then how Hollywood began to cow-tow

But then how that cow-towing has actually failed and we are in a new era of Hollywood and Chinese relationship

So pretty much all the takes out there are outdated and wrong. That's what I love about the pot

I get to learn and I learned a lot during this episode

Yeah, I just want to actually clarify what soccer is saying there because we came into this episode thinking okay

It's crazy Tom Cruise. They're taking the Taiwan patch off. How do we stop this?

His point is that that's a very

2017

2018 conversation Marvel movies basically aren't getting led into China right now

The last two Chinese will two Marvel films that were headlined by a Chinese director the

Attorney's and then a Chinese star song she literally weren't even let into the country in the first place

So we're in a whole new ballgame and how it goes and where it goes and here's up for grabs

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