Seven Trends Shaping The Chinese Film Industry
Revenue generated by China’s film industry will reach RMB 200 billion (US$30 billion) by 2020, with both box office revenue and number of movie-goers s…
Author: China Film Insider
Chinese Review Website Douban Forms Film Production Company
Douban, China’s most active and influential media review website, is moving into film production. Read.douban.com (豆瓣阅读), a subsidiary of Douban.com…
Alibaba Pictures Invests in Hangzhou Cinema Company
Alibaba Pictures, the entertainment arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant, is investing RMB 100 million (US$15.2 million) for an 80 percent stake in a mo…
China’s Mango TV Seeks Back-Door Listing
Chinese new media firm Mango TV has announced plans to list via a reverse merger with TV shopping firm Happigo Home Shopping. Mango TV is operated b…
Chinese State Media Blames Flagging Box Office On Celebrity Culture And Bad Directors
Communist Party of China (CCP) newspaper People’s Daily launched a broadside against the country’s film industry on Thursday, blaming the sector’s dram…
Baidu Uses Big Data to Identify Box Office Fraud
Chinese tech giant Baidu, operator of China’s most popular search engine, plans to release its own sales indices that they say will provide evidence of…
Film, Special Effects And Sci-Fi In China: Jan Heinze, COO of Pixomondo Q&A
When Jan Heinze, chief operating officer of Pixomondo, a global special effects company, first came to China in 2009, he expected to stay for just thre…
Foreigners In China’s New Media Landscape Face Uphill Battle: Jiaflix Co-Founder
As China’s economy, the world’s second largest, slows, international businesses working there across all sectors have been complaining that they …
China’s First Homegrown Sci-Fi Film Struggles to Market
President Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have already read the book, but they will have to wait until next year to catch the motion picture ada…
Is There A Film Industry Bubble? China’s Top Tech-Backed Figures Weigh In
The speed with which the Chinese film industry has developed in recent years has been dizzyingly fast, even for the country’s most experienced ve…
Chinese Online Gaming Firm Giant Interactive Gets into Pictures
Chinese online game developer and operator Giant Interactive Group is getting into China’s booming movie business, local media reports said. Accordi…
A Boom In Live-Streaming Apps Is Creating Chinese Internet Mega Stars
A woman wearing no makeup and dressed in a t-shirt and shorts saunters through her kitchen making hong shao rou, red-braised pork belly. In between bou…