Q&A With Voice Artist on Why Dubbing Will Never Die

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Jiang Guangtao says China’s voice artists have poorly trained actors to thank for their booming business. Tune into any of the soaps, period dramas, or Sino-Japanese War series that dominate daytime TV in China, and there’s a good chance the words spoken by the actors you see will have been replaced with those of voiceover Read More

Is US$2.4 Billion Enough to Redeem Cash-Strapped LeEco?

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China real estate titan Sunac China Holdings Ltd. will become LeEco's second-largest shareholder after leading RMB 16.8 billion (US$2.4 billion) in fresh funding. Read More

Virtual Reality Porn Peddlers Arrested in Shenzhen

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Pornography is illegal in China, where a 1997 law bans the production and dissemination of obscene content. Read More

Documentaries Fight for Attention Amid Box Office Boom

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Even as the Chinese movie market flourishes, documentaries are always a hard sell. But 2016 saw a glimmer of hope for the underappreciated genre, with Chinese documentaries securing higher ticket sales and some serious accolades on the world stage. Read More

Strange Chinese Copper Mining Firm Buy of Hollywood Studio Scuttled

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Anhui Xinke stated the cancellation of the Voltage Pictures deal was due to the cancellation of a planned internal restructuring. Read More

China Box Office: ‘The Great Wall’ Stands Tall with RMB 470 Million

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"The Great Wall"’s debut was on par with this summer’s most commercially successful local film, "Time Raiders" (盗墓笔记), which pulled in RMB 476 million on its opening weekend in August on the way to an RMB 1 billion finish. Read More

How ‘Little Fresh Meats’ Are Winning China Over

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The phrase “little fresh meat” has been around now for several years and refers to someone who is athletic, young, and handsome. Read More

On Screen China: Will ‘The Great Wall’ Stand Tall?

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Reportedly budgeted at US$150 million and in the works for seven long years, "The Great Wall" isn’t just another Chinese blockbuster aimed at a purely domestic audience. Read More

Actor Ge You Sues over Use of Infamous Internet Meme

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The inelegant photo of Ge is from "I Love My Family," a two-decade-old TV comedy he acted in that shows him emaciated and so recumbent he's nearly lying flat. Read More

Electric Shadows

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We are presenting a prophetic essay by the legendary cinematographer, James Wong Howe, as originally published in Script Magazine in 1945. Read More

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