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The story of China and Hollywood's big-screen romance

Category: Business
Duration: 00:09:30
Publish Date: 2025-07-16 07:00:59
Description: No country can come close to the amount of money Americans spend at the box office each year ... that is, until China came along. The US and Chinese film industries have a long intertwined history, with shifting power dynamics.

Today on the show, we continue our week-long look at the movie business as we explore the on-and-off romance between Hollywood and China's film industries.

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