--- title: How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors description: Your favorite summer blockbuster was tailor-made for Chinese Censors. canonical: https://time.com/4277812/movies-foreign-censors/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-31T16:01:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:11.079Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4277812/movies-foreign-censors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 31, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 31, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Your favorite summer blockbuster was tailor-made for Chinese censors.**](http://priceonomics.com/hollywoods-new-chinese-censors/) By Alex Mayyasi in Priceonomics **2\.** [**Why are hospitals such juicy targets for ransomware attacks?**](http://www.wired.com/2016/03/ransomware-why-hospitals-are-the-perfect-targets/) By Kim Zetter in Wired **3\.** [**Here’s how French political culture is linked to terror.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/03/25-french-connection-sunni-militancy-mccants-meserole) By William McCants and Christopher Meserole at the Brookings Institution **4\.** [**Israel is warming up to the world’s largest Muslim nation. Find out why.**](http://www.newsweek.com/why-israel-warming-worlds-largest-muslim-country-442078?rx=us) By Jack Moore in Newsweek **5\.** [**Could we make a new class of drugs in space?**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-scientists-are-trying-make-medicine-onboard-iss-180958612/?no-ist) By Danny Lewis in Smithsonian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4277812/movies-foreign-censors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4277812/movies-foreign-censors/"},"headline":"How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors","datePublished":"2016-03-31T16:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:11.079Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4277812/movies-foreign-censors/","keywords":["Innovation","NASA","movies","Israel","hospitals","ISIS"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4277812/movies-foreign-censors/","name":"How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors"}}]}] ```