Blog Tag - movies

Chinese Director to Make 'Tetris The Movie' Trilogy
If you thought making a movie after the boardgame Battleship was scraping the bottom of the barrel, now Chinese media entrepreneur Bruno Wu, has...
Wanda Invests in Next 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Film
Just four months after buying Hollywood studio Legendary for USD 3.5 billion, Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin is now teaming up with the Teenage...
May Set for Bumper Crop of Foreign Films in Beijing Cinemas
May is set to be a bumper month for Hollywood movies in China with blockbusters Captain America: Civil War, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and...
Chinese 'Baywatch' Full-Length Announced, No Word on the Government's Stance on Gratuitous Slow Motion
We already know that Hollywood has been reaching into their back catalogues of films, to remake them for Chinese audiences, now it seems they’ve...
‘Jungle Book’ Swings a Wild USD 50 Million Opening for Disney
This post comes courtesy of our content partners over at China Film Insider. Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book (奇幻森林) opened to gross ticket sales of...
'Zootopia' Granted Rare Extension, Likely to Become Disney's Highest Grossing Movie in China
Disney’s latest animated feature Zootopia has been such a runaway success in China – raking in RMB 1.4 billion (USD 222 million), that it has even...
Beijinger Jiang Wen to Appear in 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Perhaps the Beijingiest of all Beijingers, actor and director Jiang Wen will appear in the upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, due...
Francophiles and Bon Vivants Rejoice! 13th French Film Panorama Kicks Off April 12
Francophiles and bon vivants rejoice! This year’s French Film Panorama is on it’s way again as part of the Beijing International Film Festival with...
Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine
Celebrity in China is big business. Celebrity feeds off of and nourishes the advertising model that underpins the commercialization of what was long...
Beijing International Film Festival Tickets Go on Sale Friday at Noon
Tickets for the Beijing International Film Festival go on sale at noon on Friday, April 1 –  no April Fool's – and if pre-sales of premium ticket...
Old Hollywood Titles Reappear in China with Chinese Characteristics
It’s been clear for a while now that Hollywood has run out of ideas. Pick your favourite death knell. For some it was when they decided it would be a...
Catch Nicolas Cage on Screen this Weekend in the Universally Panned 'Left Behind'
This post comes courtesy of our content partners over at China Film Insider.   “What goes up must come down.” Two underwhelming new releases will...
How to Watch the 2016 Oscars in Beijing
You may not be able to catch this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards or Taiwan’s Golden Horse awards online in China this year, but there are still plenty...
How Offensive is ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel to Chinese Movigoers?
This post comes courtesy of our content partners over at China Film Insider.   After Chinese moviegoers helped shatter multiple records during the...
Go the the Cinema You Must, Contribute to Star Wars setting records you Will
The Force did more than just “awaken” over the weekend in Beijing, it juggernauted its way to a box office record for a Saturday-Sunday opening in...