Ever Wonder What We Export to China?

Huge-budget Hollywood movies require a worldwide release to reliably make a profit. Paramount's $130 million "Noah" has done well in the U.S. and better overseas. But it just got shut out of the second-biggest movie market in the world: China. The Los Angeles Times reports.

Questions...

•Does it matter to American audiences if American films begin to make more money overseas than they do here? Could it have an impact on the type of movies that get made?

•What types of movies do you think do well across the world? What type of movies do less well?

•Are there American ideas and attitudes that spread across the world in our movies? If so, what ideas and attitudes?

•What if most of the movies the world sees in 20 years are from China? Would that be merely an economic triumph for China, or would it be a cultural triumph as well? Why?