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Hunan TV Mogul Arrested for Alleged Corruption

Jan 13, 2018  /  News  / 
Long, 55, headed the Shenzhen-listed Hunan TV for nearly two decades. He was behind Hunan TV’s $1.5 billion investment in the U.S. film studio Lionsgate in 2015 for a three-year co-production partnership. Read More

Film Review: ‘Extraordinary Mission’ Shows New Possibilities For Modern Action

Apr 29, 2017  /  Reviews  / 
'Extraordinary Mission' is an extraordinarily lush feat of production, presenting an acutely visualized widescreen world with the urgent velocity of a film that its makers feel has to cram in every last bit. In our current fallen world of big-screen action, it’s a syllabus for possibilities that remain. Read More

Corrupt Chinese Officials Profiled, Pilloried on New TV Show

Oct 19, 2016  /  News  / 
Reality-style program reveals the sordid secrets of China’s money-grabbing elite. Read More

Exposing Sexual Abuse in China: Q&A with ‘Hooligan Sparrow’ Director Nanfu Wang

Jul 4, 2016  /  People  / 
Nanfu Wang hoped that a woman called Ye Haiyan, who had offered free sex on the Internet to draw attention to the plight of poor women selling their bodies to support their children, would lead her to the prostitutes she wanted to interview. Read More

China’s Anti-Corruption Drive Moves into Television Dramas

Apr 26, 2016  /  News  / 
In 2004, the predecessor to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television recommended that anti-corruption dramas not be shown in prime-time to “protect teenagers.” Read More

Legal Roundup: Wanda Moves Ahead, Beijing Moots Cultural Blacklist

Feb 6, 2016  /  Legal  / 
The first in a regular CFI series summarizing news in law and regulation affecting the entertainment business in China, the U.S. and the rest of the world. Read More

In ‘Mr. Six,’ China’s Changing and Staying the Same

Dec 28, 2015  /  Reviews  / 
Playing an aging gangster railing against the “little punks” who kidnapped his son in Beijing, Feng Xiaogang gives a solid performance as the title character of Mr. Six Read More

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