Category: News
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Transformers 4 Chinese Actors Talent Search Reality Show Winners Announced《变4》中国海选演员4强诞生 包括宅男型男萝莉女神
Hollywood blockbuster “Transformers 4” has selected four more Chinese actors to star in the production after a televised four-month-long auditioning process, China.org.cn reports exclusively. “I want everybody to have fun,” Lorenzo di…
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Shanda Literature eyes Hollywood盛大涉足影视 联手好莱坞制片人启动小说选秀
Quickly Edited to make it readable English: China’s largest online literature platform Shanda Literature and seven films reached a strategic cooperation, in accordance with the agreement, the first phase of a grand…
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Domestic Chinese Films Now Outperforming Foreign Titles, A Dramatic Reversal From 2012《老男孩》再曝新照 斯派克李展酷烈视觉风格
China’s domestic film industry is booming and outpacing foreign films at the box office. While Hollywood blockbusters starring super hero hunks with high-tech gadgets and indestructible limbs like “Iron Man 3” and…
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Disney’s ‘Lone Ranger’ Lands China Release in October
The Lone Ranger” will open in China this October after its initial debut in the country was postponed by three months, according to two individuals with knowledge of the film’s plans. OP:…
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UK-China producers launch Wonder Pictures
Chinese film producers Chun-Yi Yueh and Changyu Li and UK writer-producers Robert and Ashley Sidaway together with the UK’s Iain Brown and Brown Films have launched the $5m funded SZ Wonder Pictures.…
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Wen Zhang, Wang Zhiwen join Jiang Wen’s new Film 文张,王志文加盟姜文的新电影
Chinese film director Jiang Wen has invited two other Chinese actors, namely Wen Zhang and Wang Zhiwen, to star alongside Ge You in his new film “Gone with the Bullets,” Jiang’s company…
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Steven Spielberg has desire to work with Zhang Yimou
US filmmaker to release 3-D version of Jurassic Park in China this month Steven Spielberg said he would be highly interested in working with his “dear friend” Zhang Yimou on an international…
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China’s Wanda Pushing Film Credentials With ‘The Palace’
The conglomerate, whose chairman Wang Jialin is China’s second richest individual, wants to be a major player in the cultural industries as well as a real estate giant. Wanda Media, the production…
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Four female Chinese directors to watch
-OP- As everyone knows China is going through a lot of development in a very short period of time, with a lot of money flowing into a country where there might not…
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China Denies ‘Despicable Me 2’ Ban – Never submitted for censorship approval.
China’s Film Bureau denies it has banned Universal’s Despicable Me 2 from theatrical release, insisting that the hit animated movie was not submitted for censorship approval, sources close to the State Administration…
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‘Pacific Rim’ Scores Massive $45.2 Million China Debut – Because there is nothing else to see
Thanks to the stellar opening, Guillermo del Toro’s tentpole crosses the $200 million mark internationally and narrowly beats the $52.5 million opening of “The Smurfs 2.” Legendary Pictures’ tentpole Pacific Rim soared…
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Hollywood Studios Haven’t Been Paid by China in Months
The delay in payments — totaling in the tens of millions of dollars for some studios — revolves around a 2 percent luxury tax that the China Film Group is trying to…
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Smurfs 2 IN!, Despicable Me 2 OUT!
fter shutting the door on a number of big-budget Hollywood films, China has given the greenlight to Sony’s “Smurfs” sequel, sources close to the film told Variety. Sony declined to comment. The…
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Media partnership aims to tap Chinese market
Bruno Wu and Thomas Middelhoff first met on a chilly night on a boat on the Yangtze River in early 2002. A band played as the two men ate, and each ordered…
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China’s top film regulator relaxes control on scripts
The top regulator of China’s booming film industry has relaxed its controls on script content, but it’s too soon to say whether the move will bring major changes to the industry, insiders…
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China’s State Media Lashes Out Against Local Blockbuster ‘Tiny Times’
An opinion piece in the “People’s Daily” questions the “unconditional indolence” of Guo Jingming’s coming-of-age hit, while Chinese social media users lash back at the article’s suggestions of state control. Ever since…
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Han Geng, from blockbuster drama “So Young Joins ‘Transformers 4’
Han Geng, most recently seen in the blockbuster drama “So Young,” becomes the second Chinese star — after Li Bingbing — to join the latest installment of Michael Bay’s franchise. HONG KONG…
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Harry Sloan’s Global Eagle, China Telecom to Offer In-Flight Wi-Fi in China
The in-flight entertainment company founded by Jeff Sagansky and Sloan has expanded its reach via a deal with the state-backed Chinese telecom giant. In-flight entertainment provider, Global Eagle Entertainment has partnered with…
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Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Scores China Partner DMG
Alcon Entertainment is also partnering with the Beijing-based company to co-finance and co-produce the reboot of “Point Break,” to be distributed by DMG in China and Warner Brothers in North America. Alcon…
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John Woo Back to Directing for Chinese Revolution Film ‘The Crossing’
It’s been four years since Face/Off and Hard Boiled director John Woo was behind the camera, his last effort being the two-part period drama Red Cliff. Now Woo is getting back to…