All China articles – Page 84
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FeaturesChina: Buzz Titles
Hot projects from Hong Kong and China include Jackie Chan’s Police Story and a two-part epic from John Woo. Liz Shackleton previews the buzz titles
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FeaturesTerritory Focus: China
Browse Screen’s focus on China including features on distribution, setting up in the territory and the hottest new titles.
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FeaturesChina: Journey to the East
Independent film companies are increasingly setting up shop in China, and using their ability to distribute Chinese films overseas to open doors in the territory.
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FeaturesChina: Battle for independents
Non-studio foreign films can gross big numbers in China, but the business is getting tougher as risks increase alongside the rewards.
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FeaturesChina: a digital domain
Digital marketing has become critical in China’s increasingly competitive movie market, but it’s a battle in which local films currently hold an advantage.
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FeaturesSet report: Wolf Totem
French director Jean-Jacques Annaud takes on one of China’s most beloved novels — while raising his own pack of wolves.
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CommentBreaking through in China
The most striking fact I learned about the Chinese film industry this year is that more than 700 local films are produced each year.
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NewsStalingrad has record-breaking China opening
Russian war epic Stalingrad had the biggest ever opening for a non-US, non-local film over the weekend in China, grossing $8.3m over four days (Oct 31-Nov 3).
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NewsTai Chi to kick off China-US screenings
The Motion Picture Association will host film-makers and representatives from the American and Chinese film industries in Los Angeles for the third China International Co-Production Film Screenings.
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NewsOrb Media launches Ironpond
Orb Media Group has launched a Chinese-language and China-based production and financing entity and announced a multi-pronged collaboration with fantasy martial arts writer Shiao Yi.
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NewsRecord Chinese registrations for AFM
AFM organisers have announced that more than 100 Chinese distributors, producers and executives from more than 50 companies will attend the market next week.
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NewsLee joins Dreams Of The Dragon
Chinese production and investment company Dreams of the Dragon Pictures (DDP) has hired Christopher DeHau Lee as president of its film division.
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NewsCatching Fire gets China release
The Hunger Games sequel has been approved for a November 21 release on more than 3,000 screens in China.
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NewsWhite Storm to close Rome
Benny Chan’s The White Storm to close Rome Film Festival; Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close CinemaXXI strand.
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NewsVoice Of China film starts shoot
South-East Asia’s mm2 entertainment and mainland Chinese partners have started shooting a feature starring the contestants of TV reality talent show The Voice Of China.
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NewsTWC joins BBC's War and Peace
The Weinstein Company snap up distribution rights for US, Canada and China.
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NewsCJ extends 4DX cinemas in China
South Korean conglomerate CJ Group’s China affiliate has announced it will open a 4DX cinema in Chongqing this Saturday (Sept 28).
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NewsAi Weiwei joins Stockholm jury
Chinese artist and political activist complements festival’s spotlight on “freedom”.
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NewsWanda launches $8.2bn studio complex
China’s Wanda Group has announced plans for a $8.2bn (RMB50bn) film and television studio complex in the Chinese city of Qingdao at a ceremony attended by Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and a host of other US and Chinese stars.
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NewsAsia Summit fetes local strengths
How staying local could ironically be the key to reaching an international audience was one of the major messages to emerge at the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) second Asian Film Summit.