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China Gives Hollywood an Early Christmas Present

Dec 18, 2018 / Legal /

As Bloomberg reported last week, China’s propaganda ministry has approved an additional seven foreign films to play in China this year in excess of the 34 film quota. These newly approved films will play theatrically on a revenue-sharing basis. Read More

China Film: Quota? What Quota?

Jun 19, 2018 / Opinion /

If you’re an independent producer, it’s a good time to be selling to China. Read More

Headlines from China: China Removes Restrictions on Import Quotas and Co-productions with Taiwan

Feb 28, 2018 / Headlines From China /

On February 28, Taiwan Affairs Office, an administrative agency under the State Council of China, announced new policies with the aim of fostering economic and cultural exchanges between the two regions. Read More

CFI Interview: Janet Yang-Producer & Chair of U.S.-China Film Summit

Oct 30, 2017 / China Film Insiders /

Janet Yang, celebrated film producer and Chair of the U.S.-China Film Summit, spoke to CFI on the planning of this year’s summit (Nov. 1) and why you should not miss it. Read More

Film as Soft Power and Hard Currency: The Sino-Hollywood Courtship

Oct 18, 2017 / China Film Insiders /

The old global hierarchies of developed and developing countries have been destabilized as emerging powers such as China compete with the reigning power, the United States, for global influence, and the European Union struggles to keep it together. Read More

China Box Office Audit Results Are In – Now What?

Oct 10, 2017 / Box Office /

This is essentially how the studios feel about their relationship with Chinese movie theaters – full of underreported revenue and unhappiness, and they hope it never ends. Read More

China Allows Hollywood to Audit Box Office for First Time: Report

Jun 27, 2017 / Box Office /

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Hollywood's powerful global lobby group, is auditing China’s box office figures for the first time reports Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. Read More

US Delegation to Renegotiate China Film Quota in August

May 23, 2017 / News /

An American govenrment delegation will travel to Beijing in August to try to convince officials in China to allow more foreign films -- especially Hollywood films -- to be imported under revenue-sharing terms. 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

CFI’s Top Five China Film Stories for 2016

Dec 30, 2016 / News /

The relationship between China and Hollywood received more attention in 2016 than ever before, for both bad and good reasons. China's box office experienced its first slowdown in years, at a time when interest in the market has never been greater. Read More

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