‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Lands Lucrative China Release...
Paramount Pictures and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible 7 — Dead Reckoning: Part One, featuring Tom Cruise’s next action-packed sprint as Ethan Hunt, has landed a high-value release date in China on July...
View ArticleKarlovy Vary Fest Opening Ceremony Host Gets Political With Comments on China...
The 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival got off to a star-studded start Friday evening, with the opening ceremony also including much humor and some political commentary from...
View ArticleChina Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Gains Foothold, Crosses $25M
After a soft start in China, Barbie began to make inroads in the world’s second-biggest movie market in its second frame, buoyed by great critics scores and strong word of mouth. Barbie opened to $8...
View ArticleTokyo: TIFFCOM Content Market Returns With Renewed Momentum, Bigger Venue
Opening its doors on Wednesday for its first in-person event since 2019, the TIFFCOM content market in Tokyo is celebrating its 20th-anniversary edition in a new venue and with an even more...
View Article‘A Long Shot’ Review: A Grimy Industrial Thriller Set During China’s Economic...
Director Gao Peng’s first feature stars Zu Feng as a former professional sharpshooter who guards a waning metal foundry beset by theft and corruption.
View ArticleIranian Film ‘No End’ Dropped From Hainan Island Festival, Claims Chinese...
Nader Saeivar’s Iranian drama No End has been dropped from the official selection of the Hainan Island International Film Festival in what filmmakers say was an act of censorship by Chinese...
View Article‘Brief History of a Family’ Review: Subtle Psychological Thriller Puts a...
Taking its European bow at Berlin after a premiere at Sundance, Lin Jianjie’s first feature focuses on a teenage boy, his parents and the classmate who becomes their surrogate second son.
View ArticleChina Sets Sights on Global Expansion at Filmart
The China Pavilion has set up shop in the middle of this year’s Hong Kong Filmart for the third year running as it aims to share the story of the evolution of the country’s film industry. Organizers...
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives
Netflix’s acclaimed new sci-fi epic 3 Body Problem is getting some heated reactions from viewers in China, while its opening scene is drawing praise among some conservatives in the United States. The...
View ArticleXixi Pictures Sets Its Sights on Building a Global Brand for Chinese TV Drama
China’s Xixi Pictures has arrived at the 61st MIPTV buoyed by a slate of recent successes that have helped the production house, based in Beijing and Shanghai, celebrate its fourth anniversary, but the...
View Article‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhang-ke’s Defining Theme of Modern China...
The director’s longtime muse Zhao Tao plays a woman who takes an emotional journey from her home in a fading industrial city in search of a vanished former boyfriend.
View ArticleHuanxi Media CEO Talks Betting Big on Zhang Ziyi Tentpole ‘She’s Got No...
By the time Chinese star Zhang Ziyi walked the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet on the event’s penultimate night last Friday, it was already clear that Chinese cinema was back on the international...
View Article‘Black Dog’ Review: Man Bites Dog, Becomes His Best Friend in Gorgeously...
Director Guan Hu ('The Eight Hundred,' 'Mr. Six') won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar for his darkly comic thriller starring Canadian-Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng.
View Article‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Lands China Release Date
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die has received clearance to roll into China. The Sony Pictures film will hit Chinese cinemas June 22, according to both the studio and local press...
View ArticleChinese Auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s ‘Caught By the Tides’ Sells to Sideshow, Janus...
Sideshow and Janus Films have snapped up U.S. distribution rights to Chinese master filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s latest feature Caught by the Tides, which premiered to rave reviews at this year’s Cannes...
View ArticleChina Box Office: Ticket Revenue Slips 9 Percent in First Half of 2024
China’s movie box office made a roaring start to the year, but sales have waned in the months since. Ticket revenue for the first half of 2024 totaled $3.4 billion (RMB 23.9 billion), down 9 percent...
View ArticleChina’s Oscar Entry Deemed Ineligible by Film Academy, Too Late for a...
'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' failed to meet the Academy's requirement that a film must have "a predominantly (more than 50 percent) non-English dialogue track" to be eligible for best international...
View ArticleTokyo: Filmmaker Midi Z, Actress Zhao Liying on the Universal Themes of...
The Chinese film has been selected for the main competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
View ArticleA New Generation of Filmmakers Is Shaking Up the Chinese Film Industry
A string of intimate, stylish features in 2024 reveal how the country’s emerging filmmakers are "bold, open and willing to adapt."
View ArticleThe Diversity of the Chinese Film Market Is on Full Display at AFM
WWII doc 'The Sinking of The Lisbon Maru' and the dialogue-free dance epic 'A Tapestry of A Legendary Land' may appear to have nothing in common, but both examine unknown chapters in Chinese history.
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