With China’s film market poised to surpass America’s as the world’s largest, efforts to please Chinese audiences have become standard protocol for Hollywood filmmakers. Rory Carroll reports at The Guardian:...
Read MoreChinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s new film, A Touch of Sin (天注定) screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. While it lost the festival’s top prize to French-Tunisian director Abdellatif...
Read MoreFor The New York Times, Michael Cieply reports that Chinese demand has not met the high expectations of Hollywood film studios: In the first quarter this year, ticket sales for American movies in China — including films as...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that the award-winning Django Unchained was halted during opening screenings on Thursday: Like a town marshal determined to nip trouble in the bud, China’s main film distributor rode into the...
Read MoreThis week’s edition of The Economist features an epic special report by Gady Epstein on social, political, commercial, technical and international aspects of China’s Internet. From his introduction: THIRTEEN YEARS...
Read MoreCDT previously reported on the shortened versions of Cloud Atlas and Skyfall for China. The Los Angeles Times now reports that China will get a longer cut of Iron Man 3: Marvel Studios will release a special cut of the...
Read MoreWith the new administration now firmly installed in Zhongnanhai, expectations are high that President Xi Jinping will follow up on his rhetoric to implement substantive reforms to combat corruption, a pervasive wealth gap, and...
Read MoreWhile China may have finally scaled the highest pinnacle of international literary acclaim, no such triumph is on the cards atop tonight’s glittering pile of Oscars. Didi Kirsten Tatlow at IHT Rendezvous wonders why, when...
Read MoreNow that Southern Weekly has returned to publishing following heated protests against a heavy-handed censorship order, the question remains over what impact this incident will have on journalism in China. In the Atlantic, Helen...
Read MoreCritics claim that the Chinese state’s control over and censorship of the film industry has stifled profits and creativity. Today the Los Angeles Times reports more indie filmmakers, such as Yang Jin, are looking for the...
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