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Vast New Wanda Studios in China Targets Big Hollywood, Domestic Productions
(Variety) Wanda Studios — the vast production site under construction in Qingdao, China — aims to host at least five to six Hollywood projects in its first year of full operation in 2018, the studios’...
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Back with a bang
(China Daily) Beijing-based band Escape Plan gave a rare public performance at the Xihu Music Festival, held in the last week of May in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.Mao Chuan, the lead singer and...
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Living up to fan expectations
A small theater is located near the Huangpu River in downtown Shanghai. When it was built in the 1930s, the venue was known as Paradise Theater, but today it is being used exclusively for shows by the...
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Rainie Yang celebrates 33rd birthday with Li Ronghao, Cyndi Wang
(Toggle) Taiwanese singer-actress Rainie Yang celebrated her 33rd birthday yesterday at the hito Music Awards, with her good friend, Taiwanese singer-actress Cyndi Wang preparing a cake to surprise...
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China Box Office: ‘Wonder Woman’ Wins Weekend
(Variety) “Wonder Woman” topped the Chinese box office with a comfortable $38.8 million opening on a quiet, post-holiday weekend. It was followed by “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”...
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Alibaba Pictures Buys Majority Stake in Indian Movie Ticketing Firm for $18.6M
(THR) Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's entertainment arm has acquired a majority stake in Orbgen Technologies Private Ltd., which runs online ticketing company TicketNew, for about $18.6 million. An...
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Chinese films seek elusive overseas success
(China Daily) The comedy Lost in Thailand became China's highest-grossing domestic film in 2012, with box office revenue of 1.26 billion yuan ($185 million), but when the movie hit the big screens in...
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Chinese films lose out big to imported films during Dragon Boat Festival...
(Global Times) Even though they featured some of China's most famous idols, domestic Chinese films once again suffered a crushing defeat at the box office during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival...
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Virginity issue reflected in TV drama
(China Daily) Renowned as a Chinese version of Sex and the City, Chinese popular urban drama Ode to Joy returned to the small screen on May 11, its premiere gaining a high viewership rate of 1.34...
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Sci-fi thriller set to hit mainland screens
(China Daily) After winning an award at the Houston Worldfest International Film Festival in the United States for sci-fi thriller Reset, Yang Mi was in Beijing to promote the film. Set in 2025, Reset...
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Ady An says ‘I Do’ in grand Hawaii wedding
(Toggle) Taiwanese actress Ady An and Chinese businessman Chen Ronglian might just take the cake for the grandest celebrity wedding in 2017 so far.The couple flew close to 200 of their closest friends...
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Foreign flicks find edge in partnerships
(China Daily) By coproducing blockbusters, filmmakers from abroad hope to enter the Chinese market, the world's second largest. From Friday's premiere of superhero movie Wonder Woman to the epic Rogue...
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Fantasy epic 'Fengshen' trilogy: 3B yuan gamble?
One of the most ambitious film projects, fantasy epic "Fengshen" trilogy, has been initiated.It is anticipated to allegedly cost 3 billion yuan (US$441.44 million) to make with an international...
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Despite Growth, China May Not Become Biggest Movie Market for at Least Five...
(WSJ) A slowdown in ticket sales and a drop in Chinese currency have pulled back projections that China would become the world’s No. 1 box-office sometime this year, with a new report finding that the...
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Stills from “Wolf Warriors”
Wolf Warriors 2 is an upcoming Chinese action film directed by Wu Jing and starring Wu Jing, Celina Jade, Frank Grillo and Hans Zhang. The film is a sequel to 2015's Wolf Warriors.It is scheduled for...
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