DAILY BRIEF: Oct 21, 2017

NEWS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS

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  Beijing’s Big Screen Dream: Making China A ‘Great Movie Nation’

  Chief censor tells industry to make more films promoting socialist values and telling good stories about the country. South China Morning Post

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  Amid South Korea freeze, China Says Cultural Exchanges Take the Temperature

  Cultural exchanges between countries need to consider the “temperature” of popular opinion and how people feel about each other, a senior Chinese official said on Friday, amid a freeze in cultural ties with South Korea over an anti-missile system. Reuters

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  Zhu Zhu, Amy Irving, Helen Slater Set In Ann Hu’s U.S./Chinese Co-Production ‘Confetti’

  Chinese actress/singer Zhu Zhu, Amy Irving, Helen Slater and newcomer Harmonie Zhu have been set in Ann Hu’s U.S./Chinese co-production Confetti. The indie film will be produced by Jagman Productions’ Josh Green and Dragon Films’ Zhuo Shun Guo. Principal photography has begun in New York; they will travel to China in early 2018 to shoot there. Deadline

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  China Box Office Poised To Hit $8.31B In 2017, Regulator Forecasts

  Chinese box office is expected to see a strong boost when 2017’s final numbers are tallied: up as much as 20% or more to RMB 55B ($8.31B). The figures were unveiled by SAPPRFT Vice Minister at a press conference at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party on Friday, Reuters reports. Deadline

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  VR Cinemas Reimagines Film Theater Experience for the Masses

  Beijing’s stock of physical VR experience centers, or “cinemas” as Yue Cheng Technology’s Cedric Garcia calls them, are cropping up all over mainland China. Today, around 12,000 of these centers exist all over the country, and they play a huge role in moving along the acceptance of the technology in everyday life. Tech Wire Asia