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 won’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 ‘a corporate type of censorship that people don’t really notice, which is a lot of these giant corporate entities have business with countries around the world, Saudi Arabia or China, and they’re just not...