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Legal Roundup: Expanded Restrictions on Foreign Content Online

Feb 20, 2016  /  Legal  / 
Effective March 10, companies with foreign investment (including international joint ventures) are banned from directly publishing any type of content online in China. Read More

On Screen China: ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel

Feb 18, 2016  /  Box Office  / 
There's something fundamentally wrong, offensive even, about the English-language Crouching Tiger sequel landing in China dubbed into Chinese. Read More

Big in China: Western Celebrity Spreads via Social Media Campaigners FansTang

Feb 18, 2016  /  News  / 
The chasm between China’s social media ecosystem—now 650 million online and counting—and the Twitterverse enveloping the rest of the world is not simply cultural. Read More

CFI Q&A With Christopher Bremble of Base FX—Part Two

Feb 16, 2016  /  People  / 
Bremble discusses his company's deal with China Media Capital, whether Hollywood executives can really "get" China, and much more in the second part of this interview. Read More

China Box Office Sets New Weekly Record, Led by Homegrown Trio

Feb 15, 2016  /  Box Office  / 
Wow: $548 million, the largest seven-day gross in the history of the movies. Anywhere. Read More

On Screen China: ‘Mermaid’ Makes Billion-Yuan Splash in Just 4 Days

Feb 11, 2016  /  Box Office  / 
After just four days in theaters, "The Mermaid" has grossed an estimated RMB 1 billion ($152.4 million), the biggest four-day start on record. Read More

CFI Q&A With Christopher Bremble of Base FX—Part One

Feb 8, 2016  /  People  / 
As the Chinese appetite for big-budget movies grows, special effects services company Base FX, founded in Beijing in 2006 by American Christopher Bremble, finds itself situated right between those films’ traditional suppliers, the Hollywood studios, and the moviegoers they’re trying to reach harder than ever before. Bremble talked with CFI Editor Jonathan Landreth about learning Read More

China Box Office: Homegrown Hits Set Single-Day Record, ‘Panda’ Hibernates

Feb 8, 2016  /  Box Office  / 
Weekend ticket sales nosedived as families stayed home for Lunar New Year festivities, but gave way to a record-setting Monday of holiday moviegoing. 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

Fox’s ‘Eddie the Eagle’ to Try to Catch Beijing Olympic Spirit

Feb 6, 2016  /  News  / 
The feel-good sports comedy about a Winter Olympics underdog ski jumper will be released in China on Friday, March 18, 2016. Read More

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