Black and white photos of Liu Yun
Actress Liu Yun celebrated her birthday on December 26.Source: Xinhua
View ArticleChinese companies pay Disney 1.35 million yuan for plagiarism
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View ArticleWill the Force be with China?
(China Daily) Star Wars will return to Chinese screens in the first weekend of 2017, but the big question for the world's second-largest market may still be: How much further can the new space opera go...
View ArticleChina’s filmmaking ambitions are no match for Hollywood
(SCMP) Carrie Fisher’s death in the dying days of 2016 could have provided a dark but fitting theme for this my last Inside Out of 2016. So many people have died – including my own father. And it is a...
View ArticleChina’s Film Fever Cools
(WSJ) China’s highflying box office got a reality check in 2016, as cutbacks in discounted tickets and a crackdown on “ghost screenings” led to a sharp decline in cinema-revenue growth.Ticket sales in...
View ArticleYang Yang in ‘Martial Universe’
Posters of Chinese actor Yang Yang in 'Martial Universe'Source: Xinhua
View ArticleChen Kaige completes shooting of new film "The Legend of the Cat Demon"
(CRI) The shooting of a new fantasy film "The Legend of the Cat Demon" has come to an end. The movie, with a Chinese name "Yao Mao Zhuan" ("妖猫传"), is the latest offering from acclaimed Chinese director...
View ArticleChina's Alibaba to Invest $7.2B in Entertainment Over Three Years
(THR) "I didn't come to play," said the Chinese internet giant's new head of entertainment in a memo.Alibaba Group's top entertainment executive is cementing his reputation as a bold leader at the...
View ArticleCFI’s Sky Kings and Heavenly Queens: Jiang Wen/姜文
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View ArticleChina Box Office Crawls to 3% Gain in 2016
(Variety) Gross theatrical box office in China grew by just 3% in 2016, reaching RMB45.3 billion in local currency terms. That compared with RMB43.9 billion in 2015. In U.S. dollar terms the data...
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