China's New Artist Policy Could Ban Spielberg

Director's Darfur protest stunt may run afoul of Beijing leadership
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 18, 2008 4:33 PM CDT
China's New Artist Policy Could Ban Spielberg
In this May 18, 2008. file photo, director Steven Spielberg is seen at a "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" press conference in Cannes.    (AP Photo)

Steven Spielberg or his films could be banned from China under the new rules barring artists seen as a threat to national sovereignty, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Spielberg rankled Chinese leadership when he publicly withdrew from an artistic advisory board for the Beijing Olympics in protest of the nation’s trade arrangements with Sudan. (More China stories.)

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