China Box Office Crumbles as Coronavirus Lockdowns Bite
Cinema box office in mainland China crumbled to its lowest weekend total this year as the film industry was once again hit by the impact of anti-coronavirus lockdowns. Nationwide, cinemas recorded just $12.6 million of business. The current epicenter is Shanghai, where a megacity of 25 million people has been locked down in two phases for much of the past week. Read more Variety
There Is More Than One Way to Be Exhausted by “Turning Red”
“Turning Red,” Pixar’s twenty-fifth feature film, contains a lot of firsts. It’s the first Pixar feature directed solely by a woman, Domee Shi, whose “Bao,” from 2018, won an Oscar for Best Animated Short. It’s also the first Pixar film set in Canada—in Toronto, where Shi grew up. Read more The New Yorker
