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Chinese Trademark Registration Certificates Become Unavailable

Feb 23, 2016 / Legal /

The latest in a series of relevant posts for anybody doing business in China from our content partners at the China Law Blog. Read More

China Box Office: ‘Mermaid’ Drowns Out ‘Crouching Tiger’

Feb 22, 2016 / Box Office /

The Mermaid’s pact with online ticketing portal Maoyan has provided a major boost to ticket sales. Read More

Hong Kong Film Awards Won’t Be Aired in Mainland China

Feb 22, 2016 / News /

Broadcasts were canceled following the nomination of dystopian Hong Kong film Ten Years was nominated in the best picture category. Read More

Legal Roundup: Expanded Restrictions on Foreign Content Online

Feb 20, 2016 / Legal /

Effective March 10, companies with foreign investment (including international joint ventures) are banned from directly publishing any type of content online in China. Read More

On Screen China: ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel

Feb 18, 2016 / Box Office /

There's something fundamentally wrong, offensive even, about the English-language Crouching Tiger sequel landing in China dubbed into Chinese. Read More

Big in China: Western Celebrity Spreads via Social Media Campaigners FansTang

Feb 18, 2016 / News /

The chasm between China’s social media ecosystem—now 650 million online and counting—and the Twitterverse enveloping the rest of the world is not simply cultural. Read More

CFI Q&A With Christopher Bremble of Base FX—Part Two

Feb 16, 2016 / People /

Bremble discusses his company's deal with China Media Capital, whether Hollywood executives can really "get" China, and much more in the second part of this interview. Read More

China Box Office Sets New Weekly Record, Led by Homegrown Trio

Feb 15, 2016 / Box Office /

Wow: $548 million, the largest seven-day gross in the history of the movies. Anywhere. Read More

On Screen China: ‘Mermaid’ Makes Billion-Yuan Splash in Just 4 Days

Feb 11, 2016 / Box Office /

After just four days in theaters, "The Mermaid" has grossed an estimated RMB 1 billion ($152.4 million), the biggest four-day start on record. Read More

CFI Q&A With Christopher Bremble of Base FX—Part One

Feb 8, 2016 / People /

As the Chinese appetite for big-budget movies grows, special effects services company Base FX, founded in Beijing in 2006 by American Christopher Bremble, finds itself situated right between those films’ traditional suppliers, the Hollywood studios, and the moviegoers they’re trying to reach harder than ever before. Bremble talked with CFI Editor Jonathan Landreth about learning Read More