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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Feb 5, 2022, 09:26 AM Feb 2022

How China's Growing Clout Led Hollywood to Look for a New Villain

Wolverines!



(MGM Studios)

Found at: https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2017/03/29/8-things-you-probably-never-knew-about-red-dawn.html

When MGM decided to reboot ‘Red Dawn’ decades after the Cold War, the most obvious Communist aggressor was China. That proved to be a costly miscalculation.



How China’s Growing Clout Led Hollywood to Look for a New Villain
When MGM started work on a reboot of ‘Red Dawn,’ China was the obvious aggressor. By the time the movie was shot, that decision represented political
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AMC Theaters SonofBen Feb 2022 #1
 

SonofBen

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1. AMC Theaters
Sat Feb 5, 2022, 09:43 AM
Feb 2022

Wikipedia,

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. is an American movie theater chain headquartered in Leawood, Kansas, and the largest movie theater chain in the world. Founded in 1920, AMC has the largest share of the U.S. theater market ahead of Regal and Cinemark Theatres.

Owned by the Wanda Goup.

Also Wikipedia,

Wanda Group (Chinese: 万达集团; pinyin: Wàndá Jítuán), or the Dalian Wanda Group (大连万达 , is a Chinese multinational conglomerate founded in Dalian, Liaoning and headquartered in Beijing. It is a private property developer and owner of Wanda Cinemas and the Hoyts Group.

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