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China’s All-time Highest Grossing Imports

Feb 8, 2017 / Infographics /

This chart highlights the highest-grossing imported film per year from The Fugitive in 1994 to Zootopia in 2016, showing not only the scale of China’s growth as a market, but something of the tastes of Chinese moviegoers. 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

China’s Lunar New Year Moviegoing Record — How’s That Foam Taste?

Feb 7, 2017 / Box Office /

The week-long Chinese New Year moviegoing period ended with a record RMB 3.38 billion (US$492.4 million) in ticket sales this year according to official data — a 9.5 percent increase over last year’s record haul — but a close inspection of the numbers reveals the growth to be something short of robust. Read More

Film Review: ‘Demons Strike Back’ at the Audience in ‘Journey to the West 2’

Feb 6, 2017 / Reviews /

Slapstick subversiveness notwithstanding, "Journey to the West 2: The Demons Strike Back" still amounts to a Sinocentric power play that diminishes the appeal of the enterprise. 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