or trying to earn product-placement money but they keep saying no
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Oh no. Once he was cured of his delusions and spent his time in the benevolent Chinese worker’s rehabilitation system, he was next seen drinking Victory gin under the Chestnut Tree, weeping at how much he loved Chairman Xi.
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But he still knew that one day he would take a bullet in the back of his head, and he would never see it coming.
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I wonder whether the DC Metro, being relatively new, also doesn’t have any disused areas that are convenient for filming. For instance, in London they usually use the abandoned Jubilee Line platforms at Charing Cross- which is why the Tube scene in Skyfall, which is supposed to take place at Temple on the District and Circle (subsurface) Lines, uses a Jubilee line (deep-level) train. In New York, they use the abandoned platforms at Bowery.
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I’ve worked on many such film productions in a past job. It’s not that they really fear that, for example, they would lose a lawsuit if Ford decided to sue them because a disreputable character drove one of their cars on screen, but the producers just act out of an abundance of caution because even being threatened with a lawsuit is something they’d just rather not deal with. If they can just cover up a logo with a piece of gaffers tape and move on with their busy day, it’s worth it to prevent potential legal headaches. Plus, like @smulder implied, in some cases product placement is considered to be valuable and they don’t want to de-value it by showing some brands on screen for free.
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I know too many people who simply won’t watch foreign films no matter how good or relevant to their interests simply because “I don’t want to read a movie”. I don’t get it, but it’s a completely different ball of wax from gov’t censorship.
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Come on now, China is the world capital of piracy I’m sure most Chinese citizens living in China have already seen the pirated version of the actual Fight Club. This has got to be the Onion’s version of the story, it can’t be real.
I may know a thing or two about that show 
The 2199 remake is quite good if you are thinking of the original 70s version. It’s streaming on funimation.
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I thought it was that if you wanted Apple to loan/give you products this was the case. You buy your own they have no say at all.
That song is one part Star Trek theme, and two parts Great Big Patriotic Song, no doubt sung by a military choir at a parade. 
…and all the major news outlets are running with it, attributed to “some newspaper in Bangkok says…”
I don’t believe it until I’ve seen some external confirmation. Remember that hilarious story about North Korea mandating haircuts? Yeah, that was fake. Or that story about Winnie the Pooh banned in China? Fake. Or that one about a poor student shot over Squid Game in North Korea? Fake.
Meanwhile, almost every Hollywood movie has their script edited by the Pentagon if they want to use military material. The US censors thousands of movies down to the spine and openly admits it. Beginning with the myths about nuclear weapons used on Japan in WW2 (The Beginning of the End – Let's Try Democracy).
So I’ll file this under “more boring new cold war fairytales” until I get a source on it that isn’t a media circlejerk all referring back to the same “somebody said so”.
Darn those fake news sources like CBS and the Guardian… /s
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darn those winnie censors. nowhere to be found. not in search engines …
and not in DIsneyland Shanghai, either…
nowhere! nowhere at all!
I mean darn those censors at CBS and the guardian that ran with this story, of course. It was fake.
And how dare I blame CBS for ever posting fake information about geopolitical rivals of the US? They would never! Taibbi: How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It - Rolling Stone
And yet, try searching for Winnie the Pooh alongside Xi Jinping on Baidu.
Nothing
Why don’t you go on Weibo and try posting just “维尼熊 习近平” and see how long your post lasts.
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This is still going on, the most recent I can find is Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), but I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a movie being filmed right now with US military involvement.
Plenty more information here: https://www.spyculture.com/documents/
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That was not what the Guardian/CBS articles claimed, though. Their story made it seem much wider.
Also, try to post on facebook defending Nicaraguan socialists and see how long your post lasts:
Or be a Palestinian journalist. Or post from Syria.
Nobody’s claiming China isn’t censoring things. I’m claiming the narrative builds up new Cold War panic fairytales about rivals, in subject areas that are just as applicable to the West. The narrative is completely skewed and paints this childish good and evil story. With reports like “they changed an ending! These censoring villains!”
The CBS article says that the censorship mostly applies to Weibo, not Baidu. The Guardian article specifically refers to the release of a specific movie.
No, but you made a specific claim about the Winnie the Pooh thing being fake. Maybe if you had some evidence from Weibo?
Since when are we talking about Nicaragua? Get back on topic.
You’re the only one who is suggesting the existence of any such narrative.
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China’s censorship regime is so ridiculously heavy-handed that it tends to draw more attention and mockery than the more subtle and refined techniques at work elsewhere in the world. Even an ex-KGB thug like Putin is more sophisticated about it these days than poor, backwards Xi.
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The Top Gun movies are probably the best example. The original was a huge boon for recruiting, and they’re expecting the same from the new one. It’s hard to think of a recent American movie franchise that was more nakedly propagandist than this.
https://www.stripes.com/news/top-gun-maverick-is-navy-approved-down-to-the-plot-details-1.592757
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