Daniel Radcliffe and his longtime girlfriend, Erin Darke, had a glam date night on Monday at the New York City premiere of his new film, The 32-year-old alum and the 37-year-old actress posed together on the red carpet for the first time since 2014. The pair matched, with Radcliffe in a black-and-white jungle print shirt, black jacket and dark pants. Darke also went for a black-and-white look, wearing a dress with white printed flowers. Radcliffe didn't open up about his date when speaking with ET's Rachel Smith at the premiere, but he did gush about his co-star and producer, Sandra Bullock. «I grew up watching Sandra's movies, so to be on set with her was very, very surreal and cool,» he shared with ET, adding that Bullock took her producing role very seriously.
China & Hollywood: ‘Red Carpet’ Author On Communist Party’s Leverage Over Studios And Whether Middle Kingdom Mayhem Is Worth It
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Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel’s book, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, warns in its prologue: “China’s pressure on Hollywood and its own entertainment industry have the potential to challenge the American film industry as the chief narrator of the twenty-first century.”
The book overall looks at the history — and sometimes shocking vagaries — of the Chinese film industry through to the modern era. Schwartzel’s lens takes in political and cultural ambitions as well as the rise and fall of some prominent players.
Red Carpet is also a cautionary tale for doing business with the Chinese film industry. A coveted market for Hollywood with its 1.4 billion population, it’s also become increasingly thorny to navigate as it turned more inward-facing over the past year and allowed fewer studio movies onto its screens. With turnstiles under the strict control of a Communist government that puts patriotism and towing the party line above all else, it can also be a minefield that controls its internal messaging by making examples of stars, such as Fan Bingbing, who have fallen foul of the authorities. And, it’s not above punishing foreign companies or individuals for what seem from the outside to be minor infractions.
So is it all still worth it? And what lessons can Hollywood take away from the recent past? In my wide-ranging conversation with the author below, we discuss the intersection of Hollywood and China; the latter an unpredictable bedfellow, but one which Schwartzel believes is too big to ignore.
DEADLINE: Let’s start with the Fan Bingbing affair which kicked off just after The 355 had been such a hot project at Cannes in 2018. What kind of lesson is that for Hollywood
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