DAILY BRIEF: Jan 4, 2019

NEWS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS

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  Chinese Movie Ticketing Giant Maoyan Presses On With IPO

  Maoyan, one of China’s two largest movie ticket sales platforms, is warming up its plans for an IPO in Hong Kong. The company, which has the backing of Enlight, Tencent and Meituan Dianping, is believed to be aiming to raise about $300 million of fresh capital. Variety

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  China's Top 10 Biggest Flicks of 2018 — And Its 5 Biggest Bombs

  Of the top 10 movies at the Chinese box office in 2018, four were Hollywood productions and the rest domestic. Here are the top 10 performers at China’s box office in 2018: Inkstone

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  Chinese Film Market: Hollywood Still Strong, While Bollywood Needs A Boost

  Hollywood superhero films are still big money draws while Bollywood films are beginning to saturate the market, said the China Theatrical Market Report, Maoyan, the Chinese ticketing and box-office data platform, on Tuesday. Global Times

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  iQIYI Unveils "Vertical Video Zone" for Dedicated Mobile Portrait Mode Viewing Experience

  iQIYI today announced the launch of "iQIYI Vertical Zone", a new channel on its mobile app devoted entirely to video that can be watched in portrait mode on a smartphone. The announcement makes iQIYI China's first regular length video platform to launch a channel dedicated to portrait mode video. PR Newswire

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  The Asian-American Movie Milestone That Was 25 Years Too Early (Guest Column)

  Decades before 'Crazy Rich Asians' broke box office records, 'The Joy Luck Club' seemed poised to open the floodgates for Asian-American representation in Hollywood. Eddie Lin, a production assistant on the 1993 film and now a culinary writer, reflects on why it didn’t. The Hollywood Reporter