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Lawyer Sues Beijing TV for Making Fun of Henan Province

Feb 9, 2017 / Legal /

Henan in central China is the butt of everyone’s jokes. Others around the country look down on Henan as the home of liars, lunatics, and thieves who will even steal the covers off manholes. Now, one Henanese lawyer has had enough. Read More

The Shallow, Implausible Women Flooding Chinese TV Dramas

Feb 9, 2017 / News /

While a whole host of "Mary Sues" remains confined to the web in America, across the Pacific they are making the leap from internet fan fiction communities to Chinese TV and cinema screens — and viewers are lapping it up. Read More

US Football Popularity Peaks in China as Super Bowl Watched by Record 7.5M Viewers

Feb 8, 2017 / News /

Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing's Super Bowl commercial for the popular empire-building video game Evony happened to cause a bigger sensation than the game itself on Chinese media. Read More

China Online Films Surpassed Theater Releases by 500 Percent in 2016

Feb 8, 2017 / News /

The market for Chinese “online films," feature-length motion pictures for online release, saw explosive growth in 2016 in terms of both output and revenue. Read More

‘XXX,’ ‘La La Land’ among Hollywood Films Headed for China in February

Feb 6, 2017 / News /

Now that the holiday season is behind us, films from Hollywood and elsewhere are once again welcome in China, and in February musicals and films based on video games are the main themes. Read More

Book Excerpt: ‘Hollywood Made in China’ by Aynne Kokas

Feb 3, 2017 / News /

Hollywood Made in China, a new book by Aynne Kokas, published next week by the University of California Press, represents one of the first wide-ranging attempts to wrap its arms around the complexity and scope of everything that China Film Insider reports on daily: the rapid growth of China’s commercial film market; Chinese investment in Read More

Filmmaker Johnny Ma Wants You to Fall in Love With ’90s Chinese Cinema

Feb 2, 2017 / News /

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the site of the Toronto International Film Festival, in conjunction with TIFF’s annual Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival. A Chinese “psychic” once told me… or, more specifically, it was my uncle, who used to run the Beijing department of the “People with Specials Powers” (as it was called Read More

China Raises India Film Quota after ‘Buddies,’ ‘Yoga’

Feb 1, 2017 / News /

Looks like Wang Baoqiang and Jackie Chan are China’s new cinematic ambassadors to India. The box office performance of two Chinese films set in India has led to China’s film regulators granting the world’s second most populous nation two more titles in the annual 34-movie import quota in the world’s second-largest cinema market. With Wang Read More

China’s Top Social Apps All Owe Thanks to Live Streaming

Feb 1, 2017 / News /

Streaming apps were in and social forums were out for 2016. 2016 was the year of live streaming and played a crucial role in driving growth. All of the top six social apps, except WeChat, have added live streaming services, according to the report jointly published by Cheetah Global Lab, Cheetah’s big data platform libra Read More

2016 Sets Record for Co-Production Permits in China

Jan 31, 2017 / News /

China film officials approved a record number of co-production permits in 2016. China’s State Administration of Press and Publications, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) issued an all-time high number of co-production permits in 2016, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The majority of the 89 permits were for productions from Hong Kong, with 54, Read More

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