There's a nice wiki page on this exact topic. In in the US it's just become another branch of the military industrial complex, Wiki calls it the military-entert

There's a nice wiki page on this exact topic. In in the US it's just become another branch of the military industrial complex, Wiki calls it the military-entertainment complex. [1] It works using the carrot instead of the stick, but the outcome is largely the same. The military offers funding and access studios that create movies furthering US interests, enlistment, etc. Studios that work against these interests not only lose these opportunities, but risk imperiling access to them in the future. "By the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, Hollywood producers were stressing script writers to create military-related plots to gain production power from the U.S. military." The Guardian also has a really great article on this [2] from back before they joined said complex. It comes down to the exact same thing with China. They want those Yuan, and randomly shoehorning controversial geopolitical maps into a Barbie movie is going to help you on that path. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment... [2] - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/06/us-military-hollywood https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/06/us-military-hol...