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Beresford to Pilot $100M China Co-Pro on American Raid on Tokyo in WWII

Apr 22, 2016 / News /

'Driving Miss Daisy' and 'Mao's Last Dancer' director to work with state producers responsible for CCP propaganda drama. Read More

CFI Q&A: Wendy Su, author of ‘China’s Encounter with Global Hollywood’

Apr 20, 2016 / People /

The Chinese government is a bigger winner than Hollywood up to 2013 due to its strong role and strict policy, but it's still too early to declare an ultimate winner. Read More

Why Cinematic Superheroes Are Tough for China to Create

Apr 8, 2016 / Opinion /

Simply put, nobody really knows what it means to fight for “truth, justice, and the Chinese Way.” Read More

Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine

Apr 3, 2016 / 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

Legal Roundup: Expanded Restrictions on Foreign Content Online

Feb 20, 2016 / Legal /

Effective March 10, companies with foreign investment (including international joint ventures) are banned from directly publishing any type of content online in China. Read More

Legal Roundup: Wanda Moves Ahead, Beijing Moots Cultural Blacklist

Feb 6, 2016 / Legal /

The first in a regular CFI series summarizing news in law and regulation affecting the entertainment business in China, the U.S. and the rest of the world. Read More

What the Wanda-Legendary Deal Might Mean for Hollywood

Jan 13, 2016 / Opinion /

The acquisition could teach China's richest man how to make movies that will help his core business stay afloat. Read More

That’s a Wrap: 2015’s Top China Film Stories and Trends

Dec 31, 2015 / News /

The China Film Insider team wishes you a happy 2016. Thank you for reading and for sharing our work with your friends and colleagues as we continue to grow in the new year. — Jonathan Landreth, Sky Canaves, Pang-chieh Ho, and Jonathan Papish. The box-office booms. Again. China’s box office revenues grew at a blistering Read More

A Supporting Role for Culture at China’s World Internet Conference

Dec 22, 2015 / News /

The World Internet Conference in the east coast city of Wuzhen last week sparked a good deal of debate about the China’s influence on global web governance. In its second year, the conference received a major boost in its significance when President Xi Jinping appeared in person to give a speech on the subject (Last year, he only sent a congratulatory message to mark the event’s opening)

Wang Jianlin’s Open Lecture at Harvard Gets Partial Shutdown at Home

Nov 5, 2015 / News /

Dalian Wanda Group chairman Wang Jianlin (a.k.a. China’s richest man) is perhaps the leading representative for the realization of the “Chinese Dream,” a vision of a revitalized national greatness that takes global soft power as a central theme. Yet even as Wang’s empire reaches around the globe, his words are being curtailed back home. Last week, Read More

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