Time for Change: MPAA Chief Reaches Out to Chinese Film Community
By Tim Miller
August 18, 2011
August 18, 2011
- Speaking at the Shanghai International Film Festival, MPAA president Christopher Dodd urged China’s film community to broaden its engagement with Hollywood.
- Dodd called China’s movie market a “success story in the making,” with a growing capacity to create films, as well as a considerable appetite for consuming them, with more than 6,200 screens.
- U.S. studios have historically been frustrated by distribution restrictions in China, which only allows about 20 foreign films into the country each year, and returns less than 20 percent of revenue to the studios.
- Dodd and other officials from the MPAA have been assisting U.S. trade officials in efforts to persuade China to ease these restrictions.
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It has often been said that China will help us protect our IP when they have enough of their own exports that they want protected too. So, what else can we do to encourage their filmmaking community?
It has often been said that China will help us protect our IP when they have enough of their own exports that they want protected too. So, what else can we do to encourage their filmmaking community?
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