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CHINA VIEW: BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL
With production volume and box-office revenue growing at more than 20% year on year, along with breakneck multiplex development, China is a film market the global industry cannot afford to neglect. However, entering the Chinese market also means tackling the country’s yet-to-be-resolved issues - censorship and piracy.
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China's Jeboo settles with MPA over copyright infringement
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and five US studios reached a global settlement with Beijing Jeboo Interactive Science & Technology and two co-defendents on litigation over copyright infringement of 20 Hollywood films. Five MPA member companies - Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Columbia and Universal -jointly filed complaints in the ...
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Huayi Bros to make donations to Jet Li's One Foundation
Huayi Brothers Pictures has pledged to donate part of the box office revenues of its productions to Jet Li's charity group One Foundation. Starting from the release of Forbidden Kingdom, which starts Jet Li and Jackie Chan, Huayi Brothers will donate one mao (1.5 cents) from each ticket sold for ...
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Joan Chen, Zhao Tao to star in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Joan Chen and Zhao Tao will star in Jia Zhangke's 24 City, which will begin shooting at the end of March. They will portray female factory workers in the 1980s. Also starring in the film are TV veterans Chen Jianbin and Lu Liping, according to Jia, who is now in ...
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Chinese scriptwriters call on SARFT for rights protection
More than 80 Chinese film and TV scriptwriters have collectively filed a petition to the State Administration of Film, Radio and Television (SARFT) demanding greater recognition and rights protection. The scriptwriters' three major demands are: to ensure their names are credited in the proper places in films and TV programmes; ...
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MPA and Microsoft launch anti-piracy video contest in China
The Motion Picture Association (MPA), partnering with Microsoft China and in collaboration with Tudou.com, announced the launch of the 'Love Genuine, Protect IPR' online video contest promoting respect for intellectual property rights. Online users in China are being invited to direct and share short films illustrating either the risks of ...
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Chinese distribution- Unplugging the Pirates
Five years ago, Guo Yuezhou, the CEO of Zoke Culture, China's leading video/DVD distributor, was inundated with requests from his friends for free DVDs of new films.But in the past few years, the requests have dried up. These days his friends are using the internet to watch movies, both illegally ...
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Distribution - Mobile distribution - Opening the cell door
While ringtones, text, picture messages and music are the most widely used entertainment services among China's 500 million mobile-telephone users, visual and filmed content is catching up fast. By the end of 2007, 50.4 million mobile-phone owners had access to the internet via their mobile phones.China's two telecoms carriers, China ...
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Polybona, EMP set up talent company with Jackie Chan
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) and international star Jackie Chan have launched a joint venture artist management company, Bona Yinglong Artist Management. Chan will be the chairman of the new Beijing-based company with EMP's Albert Yeung as vice-chairman. Chan and Yeung are already partnered through ...
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Assembly becomes China's second biggest local film
Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly has become the second highest-grossing local film in mainland Chinese box office history, according to figures released by producer-distributor Huayi Brothers, with revenues reaching $36.16m (RMB260m) as of Jan 31. The record surpassed that of Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero, which made $34.77m (RMB250m).Zhang's 2006 imperial ...
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MPA to hold the second anti-piracy contest in China
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has teamed up with the 15th Beijing Student Film Festival (BSFF) and the China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCPA) to launch the second annual China-wide anti-piracy video contest. The theme of this year's competition is 'Respect Copyrights, Uphold Fair Competition, Protect Originality, Stay Away from ...
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China to release three foreign titles in February
In an attempt to squash rumours of an alleged ban on US movies before March, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) has announced that Golden Globe winner Atonement, plus two other foreign titles, will be released in China in February.State-owned CFGC is the only film company allowed to import foreign films ...
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Shanghai fest to hold second edition of projects market
The organisers of the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) have announced that they plan to hold the second edition of projects market China Film Pitch and Catch (CFPC) atits11th edition (June 14-22). The two-day event plans to select around 30 projects from around the world and recommend eight Chinese projects ...
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China's box office up by 26% with localfilms holding steady
China's total box office gross reached $458.63m (RMB3.33bn) in 2007, a 26% increase on the previous year, marking the fifth year in a row that box office has risen by more by then 20%. The figures were announced on Friday (Jan 11) by the Film Bureau under China 's State ...
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Chinese movie web-sites join forces against piracy
Fifty Chinese movie web-sites have jointly established the 'China Alliance of Legitimate Movie Web-sites' as a disciplinary alliance which aims to provide legal movies online and stop offering pirated movies. Initiated by Copyright Protection Center of China (CPCC), Movie Copyright Protection Association of China (MCPAC) and online movie provider www.quacor.com, ...
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Zhang Yuan arrested for drug abuse in Beijing
Mainland Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan has been arrested for drug abuse following a police raid on his Beijing home that was broadcast on local television. The Beijing TV report showed police raiding Zhang's apartment where he appeared to be taking drugs with four artist friends. He was later charged for ...
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J.A. Media unveils cast of Tsui Hark romantic comedy
Mainland Chinese actresses Zhou Xun and Zhang Yuqi and Taiwan's Gui Lunmei will star in Tsui Hark's upcoming romantic comedy She Ain't Mean, which will be the first production this year from Beijing-based J.A. Media. At a press conference held today in Beijing, Tsui said the film will start shooting ...
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Li Kai wins top Beijing Projectprize
Chinese filmmaker Li Kai has taken the top Beijing Project prizeat the Second Forum on Young Generation in Filmmaking in the Chinese capital. Li's debut project August Unfinished was awarded a $1,364 (RMB10, 000) cash prize and a grant of $136,400 (RMB1m) by Chinese film investor Idealink Entertainment for the ...
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Feng's Assembly enjoys strong opening in China
Feng Xiaogang's war movie The Assembly grossed $2.03m (RMB15m) on its opening day in China yesterday, according to producer and distributor Huayi Brothers Pictures. The figure equals the record set by Zhang Yimou's 2006 hit, Curse Of The Golden Flower. The film, which opened on Thursday (Dec 20), was released ...
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US films' box office in China up by 37% in 2007
The box office revenues of US blockbusters continued to grow in mainland China in 2007. The combined grosses of the 20 revenue-sharing foreign films reached $158.87m (RMB1.17bn), an increase of 37.6% on 2006. Based on statistics which combine the Chinese Film Bureau's weekly box office figures and Screen International's own ...