DAILY BRIEF: Jan 18, 2018

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Another 'Last Jedi' Blow: It's China's Lowest-Grossing Big-Budget Movie Since 2013
Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi has accomplished something in China that no other $200+ million budgeted live action movie has achieved in nearly five years: it has earned less than $50 million in box office grosses at the Middle Kingdom’s movie theaters. Forbes
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The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem
Tencent Holdings Ltd. is going after the cheaters and hackers that infest PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds as it prepares to bring the world’s top-selling game to China. Bloomberg
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Can Disney Possibly Succeed With 'Black Panther' In China'?
Movies with black stars in the lead roles sometimes succeed in the Middle Kingdom—Will Smith’s "MIB 3" was a top-10 hit there in 2012—but more often than not they are either rejected for distribution or fail to make a splash in the market. Forbes
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New Aamir Khan Film to Hit Chinese Screens
Indian actor Aamir Khan will return to Chinese movie screens this Friday with his latest film, Secret Superstar. Xinhua
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Wang Bing’s Typically Complex “Bitter Money” Observes a Chinese Garment Factory
Wang’s new "Bitter Money" extends his ongoing portraiture of present-day China by returning him to the subject of labor, here with a midlength exploration of migrant workers traveling to the eastern city of Huzhou in Zhejiang Province to find work in the city’s garment factories. Village Voice