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Financing - China - Soft landing or china crisis'
The credit crunch may be inflicting damage on China's export and real-estate industry but major players in the country's nascent film business are optimistic they can escape with just flesh wounds.September 2008 is known around the world as the start of the global meltdown; in China it was also the ...
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Chou and Lin to co-star in adventure film Ci Ling
Chou will reunite with Kung Fu Dunk director Chu Yen-ping in the $14.6m (RMB100m) production. Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation, Beijing-based TV production company Joy Media and Taipei-based Chang Hong Entertainment, backer of Kung Fu Dunk, will jointly finance and produce the film. The story of the film tells ...
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Sony launches Blu-ray manufacturing in China
Sony's Shanghai-based subsidiary company Shanghai Epic Music Entertainment has launched China's first Blu-ray disc manufacturing plant in the city's Song Jiang Industrial Development Zone. According to Wu Xiao, CEO of Shanghai Epic, the Blu-ray discs manufactured at the Shanghai plant will be mainly used for the domestic market. The facility ...
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Red Cliff II dominates Asian territories
John Woo's Red Cliff II dominated cinemas in Chinese-language territories for the weekend January 15-18. By Sunday, January 18, the film had taken over $30.54m in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and mainland China. The film opened in both Hong Kong and Taiwan on January 15. Its Hong Kong release saw ...
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China's SARFT sends draft film promotion law to State Council
Hopes that China will implement a film rating system have been raised as drafting of the Film Promotion Law has been finalized and submitted to China's State Council for approval. The draft was drawn up by the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). According to Zheng Dongtian, ...
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Cape No.7 gets green light in mainland China
Previously suspended Taiwanese hit Cape No. 7 has finally received a screening permit in mainland China. The film is now scheduled to be released on February 14, according to distributor China Film Group. Weng Li, spokesperson for the China Film Group today confirmed the release date and said the film ...
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Red Cliff II sweeps Chinese box office
John Woo's war epic Red Cliff II earned $14.8m (RMB101.5m) infour days in mainland China to become the first film in 2009 to break the $14.6m (RMB100m) mark, according to the film's mainland China distributor China Film Group. Released on January 7 with 1,400 prints, Red Cliff II took in ...
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HuayiBros sues Chinese websites for copyright infringement
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers Pictures is suing China's five major websites for spreading illegal copies ofthree film productions. The websitesinclude Sina.com, Sohu.com, Youku.com and UUSee.com. The first two are China's top two web portals. The three Huayi Brothers productions are Feng Xiaogang's 2007 war drama Assembly, Cao Baoping's The Equation Of ...
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Feng's If You Are the One smashes box office records
Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang's romantic comedy If You Are The One has become the second biggest Chinese-language film in Chinese film history, grossing $44.22m (RMB302m) since its Dec 18 release. The film is second only to the first part of John Woo's two-part Red Cliff, which set the record of ...
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Hong Kong box office up by 8% despite downturn
Hong Kong's box office grew by around 8% to $140.26m (HK$1.09bn) in 2008 according to figures from local film industry body, the Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA). The growth compares to anuptick of 11.5% in 2007 after several years of flat revenues in Hong Kong. MPIA chief executive Brian Chung ...
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China's box office up by 27% to $617m in 2008
China's overall box office reached $617.13m (RMB4.22bn) in 2008, a 26.7% increase on the previous year, according to figures from the Film Bureau under the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). The figures mark the sixth year in a row that box office has grown at a rate ...
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China Film secures $88m loan from Bank of Beijing
Bank of Beijing has announced that it will provide a loan of $87.59m (RMB600m) to state-owned China Film Group for its film production and exhibition businesses. The loan follows several others that the bank has offered to Chinese film companies as part of its strategy to promote 'cultural and creative ...
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Feng's If You Are the One tops Chinese box office
There were no signs of economic downturn in Chinese cinemas last weekend as popular local director Feng Xiaogang's If You Are The One raked in a record-breaking $11.68m (RMB80m) in four days of release. The results mark a new opening weekend record for a romantic comedy in China. The opening ...
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China Film, Enlight launch new media shorts programme
China Film Group Corporation and private entertainment group Enlight Media launched the 'China Film New Media Production Project' today with 20 short films to be distributed across 12 digital platforms, starting from Saturday (Dec 20). The two groups plan to spend more than $7.3m (RMB50m) to produce 1,000 short films ...
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Lau lines up internet backer for Kungfu Cyborg
Beijing-based online distribution and video-sharing website Letv.com is joining hands with Hong Kong 's Mei Ah Entertainment to co-produce Jeffrey Lau's sci-fi comedy Kungfu Cyborg Attraction. Shooting of the film started in Ningbo city in China's Zhejiang province on Monday, December 15.Letv.com is the first internet company among China's burgeoning ...
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Chen's Forever Enthralled has strong China opening
Chen Kaige's Forever Enthralled, a biopic about Peking opera master Mei Lanfang, grossed $6.13m (RMB42.18m) on its opening weekend, which sets a new record for non-action dramas in the mainland China market. According to China Film Group spokesperson Weng Li, the film took in around $1.45m (RMB10m) on the opening ...
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Huayi Bros to produce Francis Ng martial arts comedy
Beijing-based Huayi Bros Pictures is producing a martial arts comedy Zhui Ying to be directed by Hong Kong actor Francis Ng. Jaycee Chan (The Sun Also Rises), actor and son of Jackie Chan, will be the leading cast in the film playing a martial arts fighter Xu Sanguan. Huayi is ...
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China Film Group to release Disney filmBolt in 3D outside quota
China Film Group Digital Cinema Line Co, a subsidiary of state-owned China Film Group Corporation, has said that it will release Disney animation Bolt in digital 3D in the latter half of December. The film will be imported as a revenue-sharing film but is not counted as one the 20 ...
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China's Orange Sky appoints Yu as vice general manager
Daniel Yu, former COO of Andy Lau's Focus Films, has joined Beijing-based Orange Sky Entertainment as vice general manager of Orange Sky Zhihong Film and TV Productions. Hewill be over-seeing project development in his new role, an area he has been working on for various entitiesfor the past year in ...
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Taiwanese hitCape No. 7has mainland China release postponed
Originally scheduled for December or January, Taiwanese hit Cape No. 7 has had its mainland China release postponed indefinitely. State-owned distributor China Film Group and Taipei-based Long Shong Entertainment, the company that handles mainland China sales, have confirmed.Also Taiwan's submission to theAcademy Awardsbest foreign-language film category,it is understood thatCape No. ...