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‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Passes China Censorship

Jun 9, 2017 / News /

Luc Besson’s sci-fi movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, reportedly France’s biggest-budgeted production ever, has been approved for cinemas in China, according to sources familiar with the matter, but a release date has yet to be announced. Read More

Legal Roundup: Wang Jianlin’s European Tour

Feb 28, 2016 / Legal /

Wanda sets sites on France and U.K., Han Capital raises $300M for film, TV; China tightens Web controls, censors shows, raises hurdles to participation. Read More

French Director’s Chinese Movie Balances Freedom With Compromise

Oct 6, 2015 / People /

In 2012, French movie director Jean-Jacques Annaud got a warm welcome in China after more than a dozen years as persona non grata there for having offended official Chinese Communist Party history with his 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet—the story of a German mountaineer’s sympathetic relationship with the young Dalai Lama before the monk Read More

‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Passes China Censorship

Legal Roundup: Wang Jianlin’s European Tour

French Director’s Chinese Movie Balances Freedom With Compromise

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