DAILY BRIEF: Feb 19, 2018

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‘Monster Hunt 2’ Showcases China’s Improvements – and Ambitions – in Animation
“Monster Hunt 2” is the latest and highest-profile example of China’s leap forward in the animation business. Also over the holiday weekend, the fifth Boonie Bears movie, “Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink,” earned $40 million; Netflix has just picked up rights to the franchise’s third installment. Variety
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Arts Pictures close major Chinese deal for 'Ice'
Fedor Bondarchuk and Dmitry Rudovsky’s Moscow-based Arts Pictures Studio has closed a major Chinese deal for its new figure skating melodrama Ice, which has stormed to $8.7m in its first week in Russia and screens in the EFM. Screen Daily
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How U.S. Film Makers Can Make More Movies and Earn Way More Money
So the question is how can a U.S. film maker employ sound immigration, tax and investment strategies to attract capital for his or her film and capitalize on these growing foreign markets to make even higher returns than in the past? Forbes
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Berlin Film Review: ‘Monster Hunt 2’
Animator Raman Hui directs the giggly, nutty, enjoyable sequel to his megahit 2015 family film, and all across China, cash registers ring. Variety
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People’s Cinema; the Nail in Hollywood’s China Coffin?
The last thing anyone wants is another American saving the world. For the Chinese government, the last thing they want is the citizens of the People’s Republic perceiving that another American is saving the world. The Nanjinger