Hollywood Studios Haven't Been Paid by China in Months." Although China has rapidly grown into one of the world's biggest markets for filmgoing, a fight over a value-added tax has stalled payments from Chinese theaters to studios, according to Pamela McClintock and Kim Masters at The Hollywood Reporter.
"In almost any other circumstance, Hollywood studios would balk at allowing their movies to continue to be released in the country. But with China on track to become the largest moviegoing market in the world within the next five years, studios are reluctant to hold back product as they establish a long-term foothold."
"The American imagination thrives on misinformation. Why was America’s invasion of Iraq sanctioned by so many in 2003? Because it was proposed that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction. Were supporters of the invasion sure? Chances are they weren't, at bottom. But those in charge had a hunch. And that was, for some, good enough. Why was George Zimmerman declared innocent in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin? Because his jurors couldn't prove he was guilty. Were his jurors sure he was innocent? Probably not. But in the absence of opposing evidence — or the reluctance to bring intuition to bear — they handed over their verdict. In the 1950s, why did McCarthyism stick in the public imagination, and not leave? For precisely the same reason — vast numbers of intellectually incurious Americans just weren't sure."
1980's TV adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel "The Lathe of Heaven."