A leading Chinese film studio, Huayi Brothers, has announced it will deepen its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), after suffering huge financial losses this past year and the apparent cancellation of a high budget war film, “The Eight Hundred,” by Party censors.
On July 8, Huayi Brothers held a conference to announce the establishment of a Party organization within the company, the “CCP Huayi Brothers Media Co. Committee,” in a move to “solidly integrate the Party’s work into the [studio’s] film content,” said the studio’s party secretary Cao He, according to a July 8 report by state-run media The Paper.
