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China Box Office: Ticket Revenue Slips 9 Percent in First Half of 2024
China’s movie box office made a roaring start to the year, but sales have waned in the months since. Ticket revenue for the first half of 2024 totaled $3.4 billion (RMB 23.9 billion), down 9 percent from last year, according to data released Tuesday by consultancy Artisan Gateway. Total admissions for the period reached 550 […]
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Chinese Auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s ‘Caught By the Tides’ Sells to Sideshow, Janus Films for U.S. Distribution
Sideshow and Janus Films have snapped up U.S. distribution rights to Chinese master filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s latest feature Caught by the Tides, which premiered to rave reviews at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The two distributors said they will “release the film exclusively in theaters in the coming months.” Caught by the Tides is composed almost […]
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‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Lands China Release Date
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die has received clearance to roll into China. The Sony Pictures film will hit Chinese cinemas June 22, according to both the studio and local press reports in Beijing. The film opens theatrically in North America on June 7. The new film is the fourth installment […]
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‘Black Dog’ Review: Man Bites Dog, Becomes His Best Friend in Gorgeously Offbeat Canine Caper From China
Director Guan Hu ('The Eight Hundred,' 'Mr. Six') won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar for his darkly comic thriller starring Canadian-Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng.
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Huanxi Media CEO Talks Betting Big on Zhang Ziyi Tentpole ‘She’s Got No Name’: “This One Could Thread the Needle”
By the time Chinese star Zhang Ziyi walked the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet on the event’s penultimate night in mid-May, it was already clear that Chinese cinema was back on the international stage in a major way. The world’s most glamorous movie event premiered five films from China across its official selection this year, […]
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhang-ke’s Defining Theme of Modern China in Constant Transformation Yields an Elegiac Love Story
The director’s longtime muse Zhao Tao plays a woman who takes an emotional journey from her home in a fading industrial city in search of a vanished former boyfriend.
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Xixi Pictures Sets Its Sights on Building a Global Brand for Chinese TV Drama
China’s Xixi Pictures has arrived at the 61st MIPTV buoyed by a slate of recent successes that have helped the production house, based in Beijing and Shanghai, celebrate its fourth anniversary, but the company is nevertheless keen also to share with the international content community what’s on the immediate horizon. Over the past 12 months, […]
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Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives
Netflix’s acclaimed new sci-fi epic 3 Body Problem is getting some heated reactions from viewers in China, while its opening scene is drawing praise among some conservatives in the United States. The big budget adaptation of Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning 2008 novel tells the story of humanity preparing for an alien invasion. The show’s opening […]
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China Sets Sights on Global Expansion at Filmart
The China Pavilion has set up shop in the middle of this year’s Hong Kong Filmart for the third year running as it aims to share the story of the evolution of the country’s film industry. Organizers the China Film Co-production Corporation (CFCC) have brought data with them, they say reflects that there are more […]
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‘Brief History of a Family’ Review: Subtle Psychological Thriller Puts a Contemporary Chinese Family Under the Microscope
Taking its European bow at Berlin after a premiere at Sundance, Lin Jianjie’s first feature focuses on a teenage boy, his parents and the classmate who becomes their surrogate second son.
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Iranian Film ‘No End’ Dropped From Hainan Island Festival, Claims Chinese Censorship
Nader Saeivar’s Iranian drama No End has been dropped from the official selection of the Hainan Island International Film Festival in what filmmakers say was an act of censorship by Chinese authorities. ArtHood Entertainment, which is handling world sales for No End, told The Hollywood Reporter it received a confirmation from the Hainan Island festival […]
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‘A Long Shot’ Review: A Grimy Industrial Thriller Set During China’s Economic Reforms of the 1990s
Director Gao Peng’s first feature stars Zu Feng as a former professional sharpshooter who guards a waning metal foundry beset by theft and corruption.
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