Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine

 /  Entertainment Marketing  / 
In the first in a series of occasional guest Op-eds, China Film Insider brings you the voices of two academics in Britain who are recording milestones and studying trends in the growing world of Chinese moviemaking, Read More

New China-U.S. Film Summit Sprouts Mixed Messages About Collaboration

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While Hollywood takes a more conciliatory approach to working in China, Chinese companies are moving more confidently out into the global film industry, buying up swathes of Hollywood. A recent summit tried to get both sides to see eye to eye with mixed results. Read More

Hackneyed Hollywood Titles to Reappear in China With Chinese Characteristics

 /  News  / 
It’s not clear who will reprise the Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep’s roles in the Chinese remake of ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ set in Shanghai not New York. Read More

Lionsgate Stoner Flop ‘American Ultra’ Heads for China

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Lionsgate is trying to capitalize on the China release of DC Comics superhero film Batman v. Superman, also featuring Eisenberg. Read More

Legal Roundup: Film Ratings, Online Censorship, Box Office Fraud, Wanda and More

 /  Legal  / 
As China’s movie industry has grown, so has the impetus for a comprehensive law that will provide a framework for regulation. Read More

Chinese Trademark Registration Certificates Become Unavailable

 /  Legal  / 
The latest in a series of relevant posts for anybody doing business in China from our content partners at the China Law Blog. Read More

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

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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 One

 /  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

19 Chinese Films Richard Peña Recommends

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Richard Peña, director emeritus of the New York Film Festival, shared his top picks from decades of watching Chinese cinema. Read More

Chinese Stars Promise to Behave, Or Else

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The latest twist in Xi Jinping’s vision of wholesome Chinese culture involves Chinese celebrities pledging their adherence to morally upstanding conduct. It would be difficult to imagine a similar scene in Hollywood, with, say, Jennifer Lawrence and Warner Brothers CEO Kenji Tsujihara proclaiming their intention to behave according to government directives. Yet that is exactly Read More

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