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China Film Bureau: More Competition from Foreign Films Coming in 2018

Oct 18, 2016 / News /

China Film Bureau chief Zhang Hongsen has warned the country's film business to prepare for competition from more foreign films entering the market in 2018. Read More

Seven Trends Shaping The Chinese Film Industry

Sep 1, 2016 / News /

Revenue generated by China’s film industry will reach RMB 200 billion (US$30 billion) by 2020, with both box office revenue and number of movie-goers surpassing that of North America, says a new report by professional services firm Deloitte. Read More

Will Netflix Ever Go to China?

Aug 11, 2016 / News /

Netflix has not entered the Chinese market, and unless it changes its business strategy or China changes its approach to regulating content and Internet streaming, it probably will not be doing so soon. Read More

CFI Q&A With Jan Heinze, COO of Global Special Effects Firm Pixomondo

Jul 18, 2016 / Box Office /

The native German talked with CFI about the effect vast amounts of new money is having on the Chinese film and visual effects industries and the prospects for more science fiction films. Read More

China Film Community Alarmed by Detention of Tibetan Director

Jun 29, 2016 / News /

China’s film community is up in arms after award-winning Tibetan director Pema Tseden was hospitalized following a scuffle at an airport in the northwestern province of Qinghai on Monday. Read More

CFI Q&A: Wendy Su, author of ‘China’s Encounter with Global Hollywood’

Apr 20, 2016 / People /

The Chinese government is a bigger winner than Hollywood up to 2013 due to its strong role and strict policy, but it's still too early to declare an ultimate winner. Read More

French Director’s Chinese Movie Balances Freedom With Compromise

Oct 6, 2015 / People /

In 2012, French movie director Jean-Jacques Annaud got a warm welcome in China after more than a dozen years as persona non grata there for having offended official Chinese Communist Party history with his 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet—the story of a German mountaineer’s sympathetic relationship with the young Dalai Lama before the monk Read More