Dalian Wanda Sets Its Sights on Hollywood
China’s real estate and investment firm Dalian Wanda Group, which controls AMC Entertainment...
by Cindy | Jan 6, 2016
China’s real estate and investment firm Dalian Wanda Group, which controls AMC Entertainment...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 6, 2015
China currently has the world’s second largest film market (by total box office revenue),...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 25, 2015
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports criticism of the “fake” Mongolian...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 25, 2015
At the Academy Awards on Sunday, singer John Legend and hip hop artist Common won the Oscar for...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 8, 2014
At The Hollywood Reporter, Clifford Coonan reports that the Beijing premiere of Jiang Wen’s...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 14, 2013
As it tries to tap the burgeoning Chinese film market with local flavourings and joint ventures, Hollywood has increasingly had to navigate the unpredictable demands of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, or...
by Melissa M. Chan | Aug 9, 2012
As China opens up its movie industry to more foreign films and increases the number of joint ventures with Hollywood, Oscar winning director James Cameron has said he will start a joint venture for 3-D film technology in China....
by Samuel Wade | Jul 20, 2012
China Real Time talks to Chen Kaige, the “Fifth Generation” director of Yellow Earth and Farewell My Concubine, about censorship, Hollywood, and his latest film, Sacrifice, which arrives in the US this month. I’m not...
by Melissa M. Chan | May 6, 2012
As the partnerships between Hollywood and Chinese studios increase, Lionsgate, partnering with The China Film Group and Talent International, has received approval to screen “The Hunger Games” in China. Some observers were...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 9, 2012
James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’ has returned to theatres with an extra dimension and a corrected star field. But some Chinese viewers are more focused on another change which reflects tightened media controls since...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 11, 2012
While the effects of government restrictions on China’s film industry (and, increasingly, America’s) have been widely reported, their impact on the country’s film reviewers has received little attention. At The...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 21, 2011
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters that Christian Bale, not China, should be embarrassed by his confrontation with guards outside the Shandong village of Dongshigu last week. Bale was attempting to visit legal...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 15, 2011
‘Batman’ star Christian Bale was involved in a scuffle and ensuing car chase during an unsuccessful attempt to visit detained activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday. The incident was captured by the CNN crew which...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 30, 2011
The Los Angeles Times’ Barbara Demick explains how the air in Beijing can be “slightly polluted” according to Chinese measurements, but “beyond index” (formerly “crazy bad”) according to...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 18, 2011
TIME’s Austin Ramzy reports from the opening of the 6th Beijing Independent Film Festival, at which police made a special appearance against the backdrop of the Party’s Central Committee plenum. The BIFF opening was...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 2, 2011
The Venice Film Festival’s classification of a Taiwanese film as a joint production with China has met with indignant opposition from the filmmakers, with backing from authorities in Taipei. From The Guardian: A protest...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 24, 2011
Following China’s failure to meet a WTO deadline on relaxing cultural import controls, The Guardian describes the Chinese film industry’s fears of “colonisation” if Hollywood movies flood in: The 20...
by Paulina Hartono | Jul 22, 2010
From the Wall Street Journal, a look at famed Chinese director Feng Xiaogang’s newest film, “Aftershock”: An ambitious, emotionally charged, occasionally melodramatic tale, “Aftershock” spans two of...
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