The demographics that they're trying so desperately to alienate to be on the "right" side of culture are the ones that kept them afloat. Turning every movie and tv show into Black Panther isn't going to save their limousine socialist asses from falling into bankruptcy, studio by studio.
It's misplaced desperation driven largely, but certainty not entirely, by an adherence to social media of all things, which has been proven time and time again to represent a very vocal, yet very minority opinion.
Plus, China isn't doing to hot economically either, so even if Hollywood decided to go full CCP pander mode, it wouldn't help them out of their current funk. Wu Flu did hit China hard - the damn thing did originate there - and they're continuing to feel the reverberations of their shutdown and the global economic downturn the same as most other places.
The long and short of it is: no one really has any fun money to spare, so Hollywood's pretty much fucked no matter what they do.
Well, Americans don't want Hollywood anymore, so good luck selling black dudes to China, which censors main actors on posters if they have dark skin.
The demographics that they're trying so desperately to alienate to be on the "right" side of culture are the ones that kept them afloat. Turning every movie and tv show into Black Panther isn't going to save their limousine socialist asses from falling into bankruptcy, studio by studio.
It's misplaced desperation driven largely, but certainty not entirely, by an adherence to social media of all things, which has been proven time and time again to represent a very vocal, yet very minority opinion.
Plus, China isn't doing to hot economically either, so even if Hollywood decided to go full CCP pander mode, it wouldn't help them out of their current funk. Wu Flu did hit China hard - the damn thing did originate there - and they're continuing to feel the reverberations of their shutdown and the global economic downturn the same as most other places.
The long and short of it is: no one really has any fun money to spare, so Hollywood's pretty much fucked no matter what they do.
It's about damn time.