In this special episode, we sat down with Chris Fenton, author of “Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business.” He talks about “Top Gun: Maverick” not appearing in China, if there’s tide turning in Hollywood when it comes to the China market, and how this could all play out going forward.
On “Top Gun,” Fenton said: “If you backtrack and just look at what the movie is about, which is about American exceptionalism and sort of this military that is world class, best in the world, and sort of the policemen of the world in a lot of ways, you could see that just the narrative of it, the thematics of it, might not be exactly palatable for the Chinese Communist Party to begin with. So I think there was always an idea that it might not get into that market, even though it’s a big franchise and has the possibility of generating huge box office.”…