From The Wall Street Journal: In the Bush administration’s “good cop-bad cop” approach to trade relations with the Chinese government, yesterday was a “bad cop” day. As expected, the government said it would file a pair of cases in the World Trade Organization against China aimed at piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. intellectual property. U.S. […]
Read MoreChinese movie fans have picked up a new hobby: entertain themselves by spoofing entertainment itself, such as movies. Even though some Chinese movies are posting encouraging box office results, China’s film industry as a whole seems to be losing the audience. Via Xinhua, translated by CDT: The number of Chinese movies has been rising significantly […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: Everyone from Hollywood to Congress has been pressing China to get serious about the illegal use of music, movies and software. Now, it has picked a crackdown target: karaoke. If royalties were collected in China, the music industry could make as much as $375 million a year from karaoke parlors. […]
Read MoreQin Hui (˶ÉËæâ) has been called the “big crocodile of the mainland media industry, though he founded his sprawling empire on a simpler form of entertainment. Before Qin sank millions made “stir-frying” stocks into IPTV, telecommunications, movie theatres, newspapers and satellite TV networks like Sun, Qin opened Passion (§©Â±±‰∫∫Èó¥), the night club whose range of […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Time Warner Inc. has decided to pull out of the movie-theater business in China, citing frustration over changing government restrictions on foreign investors. The New York media company’s Warner Bros. International Cinemas division has only four joint-venture cinemas in the country, and the move doesn’t affect Warner’s growing Chinese-language film-production […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Nine people convicted of selling illegally copied DVDs and other goods have been jailed for up to 13 years in China’s biggest anti-piracy crackdown to date, a news report said Friday. The sentences were the longest reported since China stepped up penalties for product piracy in mid-2005, imposing jail time in addition to […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Starting this summer the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates. Christine Loh, the chief executive […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish.com: Feng Xiaogang (ÂÜØÂ∞èÂàö)described how he has witnessed the development of Chinese films.”In 1997 when the Chinese film industry was in a down period, I decided to set foot in it. Perhaps thanks to the depression of the film market, I, as a rookie, stood out. My first film brought in box office revenue […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: For Hollywood, the road into China has become such a long march that film executives are rethinking their expectations for the elusive market. The decision by Chinese officials this month to abruptly pull “The Da Vinci Code” from theaters, even though the religious thriller was a hit with moviegoers, marks […]
Read MoreA new development in the Shangri-la Promise Pollution story from Reuters (link): China will fine the crew of the country’s most expensive movie, “The Promise” by Oscar-nominated director Chen Kaige, for damaging the environment in an area of outstanding natural beauty, state media said on Wednesday. The producers neglected to carry out an environmental impact […]
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