From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

Is there anything more American than grabbing a date,

grabbing some candy and popcorn, and going to the movies?

Here's looking at you, kid.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

And how about some good old-fashioned Chinese censorship?

Wait, what?

It is a question you might never have considered. Is China taking over Hollywood?

The Chinese are financing some of your favorite films, buying theater chains.

It is a growing trend.

Major Chinese production companies teaming up with Tinseltown,

which is leading to concerns over pro-China propaganda making its way into major American blockbusters.

Here's an interesting fact. If you go to a movie theater right now, it's a pretty decent chance.

You're going to be seeing a Hollywood movie with a budget partly from China.

That is actually true of two of the top three movies out right now,

and it's just one sign of a global power shift in

entertainment that's already changing the movies you see. The Chinese government only allows a small

number of foreign movies into China each year. And after America, China is the number two

biggest movie-going country in the world. So it's only natural for American movie makers to

try to please the cultural gatekeepers

of the Chinese government.

They've been doing it for years.

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