On Screen China: Sony’s Marketing Caper Wins at Box Office for 007

 /  Box Office  / 
Bond-mania swept over China this past weekend, much to the delight of Sony, which has struggled with underperforming releases this year in the world’s second-biggest film market. Spectre, the 24th installment in the enduring spy series, pulled in nearly $49 million from Chinese moviegoers in its first three days. Spectre’s $15 million opening day on Read More

Chinese Filmmakers Zhang Yimou and Zhang Zhao Honored in Hollywood

 /  News  / 
Over 20 years ago, Zhang Zhao was a bicycle delivery man working his way through film school at New York University. One day, the Shanghai native bought a ticket to Farewell My Concubine, his countryman Chen Kaige’s 1993 epic movie about Beijing Opera players caught up in mid-century political turmoil. “[The movie] made me cry Read More

Chinese Hits Miss Out on the Global Box Office

 /  News  / 
If he’d had the time after meeting American captains of industry in Seattle and Barack Obama at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ducked out at the close of his United Nations appearance and into a New York movie theater to check on how China’s other soft power ambassadors—its movies, not its Read More

Copyright Pledges in China Film & TV Finance

 /  Legal  / 
Though a framework exists, the registration of pledges is not yet common in the Chinese film and TV business. Read More

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