Hollywood’s Oldest Super Agent Isn’t Retiring Anytime Soon
At 90, CAA’s Fred Specktor spends his days orchestrating the careers of A-list actors and looking for new talent: ‘You still need movie stars’
'Top Gun' Tells The Whole Story of China and Hollywood
The blockbuster is about taking out a uranium plant in some unnamed country. Really, it's about taking on the Communist Party.
Transformed
In 2014, the movie "Transformers: Age of Extinction" made more money in China than any Hollywood film previously had — but only now are the implications coming into focus. (Credit: Visual China Group via Getty Images)
How China Captured Hollywood
Over this next century, China wants to use the movies to rebrand itself, and it has learned how to do so from the best.
How China’s Growing Clout Led Hollywood to Look for a New Villain
When MGM started work on a reboot of ‘Red Dawn,’ China was the obvious aggressor. By the time the movie was shot, that decision represented political suicide.
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