The Motion Picture Association is watching as the Department of Defense creates actual policy guidelines for military cooperation.
The flags were restored when the film was finally released last year, albeit not in China.
That deal never materialized.
Tom Cruise on the set of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’Scott Garfield / Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
This is a massive propaganda coup for the Chinese Communist Party, Barr said.
The story of the film industrys submission to the CCP is a familiar one.
Beijingrespondedby increasing military exercises and firing off ballistic missiles nearby.
But the concept of the legislation made its way into the NDAA, despite MPA lobbying against it.
The NDAA ultimately cleared Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.
A separate end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill also included a ban on TikTok on government devices.
Thats lower than 2021 and way down from 2019, when there were more than 30 releases.
The film quotas and revenue sharing limits long have been the source of frustration.
Imagine the outcry had the studio done so.
Moreover, the military already has discretion on choosing whether to cooperate on a project.
Concerns about the CCPs propaganda machine are real and I have spoken about them at length, he wrote.
A spokesperson for the DoD did not return requests for comment.
Kowtowing to Beijing no longer seems to guarantee any return from China anyway, he said.
Nancy Tartaglione contributed to this report.
