James Cameron: China should let more movies in – Arts & Entertainment

hosted.ap.org — James Cameron is in China for the premier of his new film, Avatar, and has some words for Beijing: Mr. Hu, tear down this wall! The wall being China's restriction of 20 import films per year. This on the heels of the WTO ruling that Beijing was illegally restricting movie and other media imports.

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Stephan Larose 2 years 6 weeks ago

Way to go James! The more movies come here directly, the quicker we get DVD rips of them! I'm down!

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