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A Hollywood producer who spent years courting China to support American film studios is now speaking out against Tinseltown\u2019s attempts to work with the communist nation.<\/p>\n
Christopher Fenton, producer of the new film, \u201cBad Counselors,\u201d told CBN News Hollywood is always trying to find new businesses and new sources of capital to help make expensive films and projects possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, on top of it, on the output side of things \u2026 once you actually get it into theaters, are there markets there that we haven\u2019t explored?\u201d he said, detailing the questions executives are often faced with. \u201cAre there potential ways to generate new revenue?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Decades ago, he said the U.S. approach to China started to shift, with America opening up more relations with the nation. While America initially had a \u201cfrozen relationship\u201d with China, an idea took root: that the more products and services the U.S. could get into the nation, the \u201cmore we would spread the aspirational quality of democracy inside of a communist country.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to growing the economy in the U.S., Fenton said there was a higher mission and purpose in engaging China and opening up the market.<\/p>\n To order Jonathan Cahn\u2019s new book, <\/a><\/em>The Altar of Pergamon<\/a>, visit Amazon.com.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhat we found over time \u2026 is that aspirational quality of democracy inside a communist country plan hasn\u2019t really worked out all that well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Fenton said jobs were generated and GDP growth came, but that it was only a \u201csugar high\u201d that didn\u2019t last. Overall, he said Hollywood\u2019s market share in China has been lost. The initial plans simply didn\u2019t pan out the way he and others wanted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe initial thought was the more products and services we could get in that country, the better, no matter what it took to get them in,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it was like an ends-justify-the-means plan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n While 99% of people seeking to engage China in this way were looking to help the U.S., he said the other \u201c1% was very willing to sell out the soul of America to make a buck.\u201d<\/p>\n Regardless of the mission, there was an unintended consequence of the relationship between China and the U.S. \u2014 and it involved bias and a quest for the communist party to push its ideologies on the masses.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the most part, we were under this other higher mission,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd part of that for Beijing and the entertainment content space was to placate them and their directives in terms of messaging and narrative, the way they wanted their system of government presented to their own people to essentially make that 1.3 billion people just happy enough that they don\u2019t revolt and have another Tiananmen Square incident like June 4, 1989.\u201d<\/p>\n But it didn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n To read the full story,\u00a0visit our content partners at Faithwire.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Reprinted with permission from\u00a0<\/em>faithwire.com. Copyright \u00a9 2026 The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n