Headlines from China: Three Leading Film Companies Battle in the TV Market

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Beijing Enlight Media, one of the biggest film companies in China, released a lineup of 14 TV series that will begin production later this year. Read More

ByteDance Offers Books for Free on Toutiao Content Platform

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Chinese tech giant ByteDance has made the majority of its novels on its popular Toutiao app free to access, following a general trend in the fiercely competitive publishing sector. Read More

Headlines from China: Art-house Filmmakers Around the Globe Including Jia Zhangke Create Short Movies About Lockdown Experience

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Thessaloniki Film Festival recently commissioned 8 directors from Greece and 14 others from the rest of the world to produce three-minute short movies about their separate lockdown experiences. Read More

Alibaba is Investing RMB 200 Billion in Cloud Services After Covid-19 Boom

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Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will spend RMB 200 billion ($28.27 billion) on its cloud infrastructure over the next three years following an increase in demand for digital services in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak in China. Read More

Headlines from China: Tough Transmission from Theatrical Distribution to Online Distribution

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There are a lot of uncertainties created after theatrical films all start to move from theaters to online platforms. This detailed report shows the great difficulty for a theatrical film to be completely repositioned for an online release Read More

Tired of 2020? Try the 1020s, Say Chinese Period Drama Fans

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Viewers have mostly given a thumbs-up to the Song dynasty drama “Serenade of Peaceful Joy.” Read More

Headlines from China: Exclusive Interview with the Funder of the Film Marketing Agency Behind “The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty”

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  Exclusive Interview with the Funder of the Film Marketing Agency Behind “The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty” Produced by Jackie Chen, the web series “The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty” is drawing a lot of attention lately on the Internet. Its success cannot be separated from the few innovative marketing campaigns conducted by the Read More

ByteDance Launches Global Hiring Spree With 10,000 New Jobs

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ByteDance Inc. just kicked off a wave of hiring it envisions hitting 40,000 new jobs in 2020, hoping to match Alibaba’s headcount at a time technology corporations across the globe are furloughing or reducing staff. Read More

Headlines from China: China GDP Contracted in Q1 2020, What Does This Mean to the Film Industry?

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China’s economy shrank 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020, according to the data released by Chinese officials on April 17th. Faced with such a momentous challenge ahead, will Chinese film industry bounce back in the remainder of 2020? Read More

Headlines from China: Web Film Market Experienced a Substantial Growth During First Business Quarter

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As online entertainment increased during the coronavirus outbreak, web film industry experienced a remarkable growth in the first quarter. Read More

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