China’s Communist Party made moves last month to solidify and formalize its (already substantial) control over the country’s media. China’s main state-run broadcasters are to be consolidated into a massive new “Voice of China” under the...
The state will boost the box office of these propaganda movies with group sales, discounted tickets and other financial backing.
Disney is trying again to get its movies and TV programs into China.
Among the deals being signed that shape the way the world experiences culture, a new partnership will exert a great influence on the flow of content from the world's three remaining major record labels to an enormous and growing marketplace — as...
Like a high-flying space robot shot out of the sky, the Transformers film franchise has crash-landed in China—singeing a promising Hollywood business model in the process.
China’s Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom is a cutting-edge text that spotlights the digital transformation in China. Organized into three major areas of the digital economy within China, this ground-breaking book explores the surge in e-commerce of consumer goods, the way in which multi-screen and mobile Internet use has increased in popularity, and the cultural emphasis on the mobile Internet as a source of lifestyle- and entertainment-based content.
Acrush is made up of five women mostly in their early twenties, who all have edgy short hairstyles and dress like a bunch of boyish hearthrobs.
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures movie unit has failed to strike a deal with two Chinese groups to receive $1 billion in financing for a fresh series of films, according to several Hollywood sources who spoke to The Post.
The mainland chill on Korean content that follows Seoul’s decision to deploy a missile defense system is driving Chinese fans to get their “K-culture” fixes on peer-to-peer platforms instead of mainstream sites.
China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an international scale—from behemoth theme parks to blockbuster films. Hollywood Made in China examines these new collaborations, where the distinctions between Hollywood’s “dream factory” and Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” of global influence become increasingly blurred.
Relations between China and South Korea have been icy of late, to say the least.
After an “extremely cordial” call between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a government-backed news outlet projected an expansion to China’s film quota and a greater share of box-office revenue for Hollywood studios.
As an army colonel who became a woman, she exemplifies a society in flux
Zhang's latest single breaks the mould of China's pop industry and could help her become its first global superstar
One of the most hyped-up film productions of the year is shaping up to be a box office success, and a critical bomb
China's box office is set to end the year with its smallest growth in a decade
Chinese teams set to continue soccer spending spree in window; Spending comes amid warning from Communist Party newspaper
Movie industry sees $150 million picture starring Matt Damon as harbinger for future U.S.-China co-productions
Wang will be joined by seven other Chinese athletes hand-picked by WWE Inc, in the hope that one of them will become the first Chinese WWE "superstar"
China has turned down Korean stars’ applications to perform in the country and has not let any Korean movies screen in the mainland
Spray tans and hair dye: the transformation of a retired music professor into China's Trump impersonator
When Beijing was named the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics, China immediately became hockey’s brave new frontier
First law governing the country’s film industry targets box-office fraud and says film-makers must have excellent moral integrity
State broadcasters touched a nerve among its viewers by casting an actress and model seen as "anti-China" in a documentary about the Long March
A popular TV show in China has been cancelled after featuring the mother and grandmother of a young woman who was repeatedly raped, but never reported it
As if the land of 1.4 billion people wasn’t already exerting influence on enough global markets, China is now a big part of golf’s future
Netflix is saying zaijian to China, before it even got a foot in the door.
The eight-episode series, called “Always On the Road,” is being beamed daily to hundreds of millions of Chinese homes through Oct. 25 on CCTV’s Channel 1
"Star Wars" music. Ushers in gold evening gowns. The mayor of Los Angeles. Inside Dalian Wanda's Hollywood event.
Wanda's gala event at LACMA is expected to attract A-list stars and executives, as the company's outspoken chairman announces a major new production incentive in China.
Is “I’d rather weep in a BMW than laugh on a bike” becoming the norm?
Disgruntled fans demand that president of football association is sacked as hopes for a football revolution suffer a blow
Former quarterback says ‘no-brainer’ for NFL to play in China
The Cinema group has been bought by AMC, owned by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda....
In her first sit-down since becoming Jack Ma's top global film exec, Zhang Wei reveals what China's web giant can offer Tinseltown.
"If you wanna know what China's gonna do, best pay attention to the shisanwu."
For Xiao Jiguo, a Chinese Obama impersonator, it’s all about the eyebrows.
A man from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been making a living by looking like US President Barack Obama.
The film will soon surpass its predecessor, 'Lost in Thailand', which grossed $208 million in 2012, the most ever for a Chinese film at the time.
Chinese firms are stepping up their investments in Hollywood, to protect their own market share.
As of Sept. 12,Monster Hunthad grossed a whopping RMB 2.428 billion (US$380.95 million).
Chinese audiences are growing, more theaters are being built, and the movies are getting better.
The depth and variety of local films suggests growth in China’s domestic production.
LeTV launched its Internet video streaming service three years before Netflix (2004 versus 2007).
Making a movie is a wild ride no matter where you are in the world, a process fraught with ego and pride; wobblier, riskier, yet potentially more lucrative, the bigger and faster it gets.
With U.S. gross sales of movie tickets basically...
“Doraemon is a part of Japan’s efforts of exporting its national values and achieving its cultural strategy; this is an undisputed fact,” the local communist party newspaper Chengdu Daily said in an editorial.
Amid an ongoing government campaign against drugs, prostitution, and other moral vices, a powerful government agency has reportedly issued new regulations banning...
This week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser are pleased to be joined by Sascha Matuszak, a Chengdu-based expert on Chinese martial arts and the producer of a new documentary on Chinese MMA (mixed martial arts), a competitive tournament...
: From the beaches of China to pages of a fashion magazine.
The record $317 million that Paramount’s new Transformers grossed in China in 31 days is impressive, but the struggle the studio has endured to collect a mere 25 percent of that total shows that mining gold behind the Great Wall is a...
Amid consolidation chatter in the U.S., the owner of exhibition giant AMC says it plans to become a “real” multinational company and “intensify” its investment in the entertainment sector globally.
The privetely funded, wordless, loosely plotted "PANDA!" is China's latest soft power incarnate.
While authorities speak of “cleaning the web” of offensive content, they may be more worried about reminding the country’s flourishing private internet firms that the government is still in charge....
'Big Bang Theory' and 'Good Wife' are among programs taken down from popular video streaming sites Sohu, Youku Tudou, and Tencent, as government control of the Internet and over foreign entertainment content intensifies.
Official corruption in China is a serious matter: In January 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping openly vowed to tackle it, and a 2013...
Chinese box office revenue rose $760 million to $3.57 billion, an increase of 27 percent over last year's $2.8 billion (17 billion yuan), data from China's biggest online film review site, Mtime, showed.
Earlier this week, Kimmel aired a segment of his Kids Table, where he asks small children to address complex issues. When asked how the U.S. could solve the $1.3 trillion trade imbalance, one 6-year-old answered “Kill everyone in China.” ...
The $2-billion marine-based Chimelong Ocean Kingdom theme park and resort on Hengqin Island is to be connected by bridge to Macau and by ferry to Hong Kong.
Notable is the recent aggressive outreach to Chinese audiences by Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr. Not only did he visit China for the first time in his life to talk up the film, but Downey also set up a personal account on Sina Weibo....
