{"id":8017,"date":"2022-06-02T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:33:06","slug":"sony-loses-millions-after-rejecting-chinas-demand-to-remove-statue-of-liberty-from-new-spider-man-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"Sony loses millions after rejecting China\u2019s demand to remove Statue of Liberty from new \u2018Spider-Man&#8217; film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In China, films are reviewed by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/03\/china-film-industry-regulation-communist-party-propaganda-department-1202350328\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China Film Administration<\/a>&nbsp;under the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese authorities initially wanted Sony and Marvel Studios to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/the-chinese-had-one-note-on-spider-man\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take out<\/a>&nbsp;the American landmark, which is prominently featured during the film&#8217;s third act, according to multiple sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese regulators reportedly modified the original request to remove the action-packed sequence, instead asking for the removal of certain shots from the sequence that they deemed too \u201cpatriotic,\u201d such as the scenes where Tom Holland\u2019s Spider-Man stands on the Statue of Liberty\u2019s crown. The regulators also suggested dimming the parts when the statue is shown to make it less noticeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sony ultimately rejected the request, resulting in Chinese authorities preventing the latest Spider-Man film from being released in the biggest film market in the world. The film lost a potential&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/07\/spider-man-no-way-home-could-have-hit-2-billion-with-china-release.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$170 million-$340 million<\/a>&nbsp;in sales from China, according to reports.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/sony-loses-millions-rejecting-china-180433530.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/sony-loses-millions-rejecting-china-180433530.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In China, films are reviewed by the China Film Administration under the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese authorities initially wanted Sony and Marvel Studios to take out the American landmark, which is prominently featured during the film&#8217;s third act, according to multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese regulators reportedly modified the original request to remove the action-packed sequence, instead asking for the removal of certain shots from the sequence that they deemed too \u201cpatriotic,\u201d such as the scenes where Tom Holland\u2019s Spider-Man stands on the Statue of Liberty\u2019s crown. The regulators also suggested dimming the parts when the statue is shown to make it less noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>Sony ultimately rejected the request, resulting in Chinese authorities preventing the latest Spider-Man film from being released in the biggest film market in the world. The film lost a potential $170 million-$340 million in sales from China, according to reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,1361,216,226,227],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-entertainment","tag-protectionism","tag-trade","tag-trade-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}