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China’s Biggest Box Office Hit MONSTER HUNT Gets a US Release and Trailer

China’s Biggest Box Office Hit MONSTER HUNT Gets a US Release and Trailer

Posted by Donnie Lederer on December 13, 2015

The highest grossing movie in Chinese box office history is getting a U.S. release this January, and they’ve released a trailer for it. We can be the first to tell you, it’s insane.

Monster Hunt is set in a mythical land that resembles ancient China. Monsters and humans co-exist in this world, and tensions are running high. When a child is born of a monster queen and a human, the baby, Wuba, must realize his destiny to become king and bring balance and peace to both races.

It seems like a simple plot to follow until you watch the actual trailer. The craziness lasts the entire 1 minute and 47 seconds. You have monsters revealing themselves after tearing off their human skin; you have sword fights; you have monster battles; you have a man giving birth to a four-armed baby monster. This seems more like a late night game of Cards Against Humanity instead of a film that grossed over 381 million dollars in China. Not only is it the highest grossing movie in Chinese history, it’s the first movie MADE in China to top the box office list in 21 years. With those stats to back it up, this movie is definitely worth a look.

Monster Hunt, directed by Raman Hui, will be released in the United States on January 22, 2016.

What do you think? Will you be checking out Monster Hunt next month? Or is this a little bit on the “too crazy” side. Let me know on Twitter or sound off in the comments below.
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Yaogun: Chinese rock-and-roll

Published on Jan 26, 2016
Although called “Chinese rock-and-roll,” there’s definitely more to the musical genre in China known as yaogun than its translation.

SinoVision Journal reporter Lani Nelson went to China Institute to learn more about where rock-and-roll ends and yaogun begins, as well as where yaogun fits within the global history of rock music.

 
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Terry Flew - Challenges And Opportunities For China's Media And Creative Industries

Terry Flew - Challenges And Opportunities For China's Media And Creative Industries

Published on Jan 25, 2016
In this presentation, Professor Flew will propose that the concept of "soft power" is burdened by an uncertain understanding of the relationship between culture and power, reflective of unresolved debates between international relations theories on the one hand, and communications and cultural studies theories on the other. At the same time, the substantial investment by governments around the world in international broadcasting and other forms of media-based cultural diplomacy suggests that the relative sanguinity of globalization theories towards questions of cultural power and media influence are worthy of reconsideration. This presentation will consider the case of China's investments in exporting entertainment media as case study of the opportunities and challenges of this changing global media landscape.

About the Speaker

Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications and a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (Sage, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), New Media: An Introduction (Oxford, 2014) and co-author of Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015). He is the author of 48 book chapters and 78 refereed journal articles, and the founding editor of Communication Research and Practice. He was a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for Humanities and Creative Arts from 2013-15, and in 2011-12 he worked for the Australian Law Reform Commission, chairing a review of the National Classification Scheme.
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A few days ago I saw this beautifully shot documentary about the making of multiple regional Chinese New Year foods which also conveys the spirit of the holiday along the way. Highly recommended regardless of whether you understand Mandarin, the video practically speaks for itself.

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Stephen Chow's Mermaid in China just broke the record knocking out Monster Hunt as biggest box office in China making $400 million in 12 days. Monster Hunt took over 50 days to top out at around $390 million. And of course Hollywood is acting like that was suppose to be their money and title.
 
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PanAsian said:
A few days ago I saw this beautifully shot documentary about the making of multiple regional Chinese New Year foods which also conveys the spirit of the holiday along the way. Highly recommended regardless of whether you understand Mandarin, the video practically speaks for itself.

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I saw a " A Bite of China" in English on you-tube and found it rather interesting so I guess the program must have spanned over a couple of seasons. The one I saw was about regional foods as well.Other than the cured ham done the traditional way, I didnt find any of the food particularly appetising
After getting hospitalised in Singapore of all places with a very bad case of food poisoning, I am now gastronomically cautious.
 
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I saw a " A Bite of China" in English on you-tube and found it rather interesting so I guess the program must have spanned over a couple of seasons. The one I saw was about regional foods as well.Other than the cured ham done the traditional way, I didnt find any of the food particularly appetising
After getting hospitalised in Singapore of all places with a very bad case of food poisoning, I am now gastronomically cautious.
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Yikes! Though I am tempted by a lot of street foods when I travel I always avoid them since I have learned through similar experiences that I have a sensitive stomach, never been hospitalized though, and I always drink bottled water.
 
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Well the end of the world prognostication has been used by people to scare others into submission into whatever agenda. You can only be saved if you listen and obey them. Whether it's something like religion or the environment, it's aim is power and control over others not saving anyone.

Why would this even be important to wonder why there's not a lot of end of the world predictions in Chinese culture? Is it because the people who don't think about the end of the world are less likely to be manipulated by scare tactics? I hope this article isn't suggesting apocalyptic movies that are popular in China hides some political or religious yearning of theirs that they again feel have the right to force it on China like everything else. Maybe a movie is just seen as entertainment and nothing else.
 
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PanAsian said:
Yikes! Though I am tempted by a lot of street foods when I travel I always avoid them since I have learned through similar experiences that I have a sensitive stomach, never been hospitalized though, and I always drink bottled water.
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Same here, I don't have a strong stomach to take in street foods in any foreign country.
 
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