Judd Apatow says Hollywood is censoring films to appease China by ‘shutting down critical content’

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Hollywood is censoring films in order to avoid angering China and Saudi Arabia, director Judd Apatow says. The filmmaker behind hits like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The King of Staten Island says he has noticed that studios wonࢀ™t take on sensitive subjects if it means being denied access to lucrative markets abroad where human rights abuses are rampant. Apatow told MSNBC that he is worried about ࢀ˜a corporate type of censorship that people donࢀ™t really notice, which is a lot of these giant corporate entities have business with countries around the world, Saudi Arabia or China, and theyࢀ™re just not…

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