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underpants

(182,829 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2014, 01:22 PM Dec 2014

In all the news stories that I have seen (this was the lead on Fox and Morning Joe this morning not Cuba) no one is mentioning how MGM digitally remade the invading Army into North Korean from the Chinese that was actually in the script and the making of the movie.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237717/Red-Dawn-remake-swapped-Chinese-flags-insignia-North-Korean-ones-fear-losing-billion-dollar-box-office.html

Just thought I would mention that.

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Sony&N.K. - Have we forgotten that China changed the 2012 remake of "Red Dawn"? (Original Post) underpants Dec 2014 OP

(16,184 posts)

1. To appeal to the Chinese market, not because China launched a cyberattack on MGM

Thu Dec 18, 2014, 01:35 PM

Dec 2014

(45,319 posts)

2. That's called marketing to a lucrative audience. China is a huge market for films, including US