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ABC78

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Stanley Rosen 骆思典: Western Culture And Chinese Youth a lot on movie stats

[ Stanley Rosen 骆思典: Western Culture And Chinese Youth

Published on Jul 21, 2015

In China there are 316 million people between the ages of 15 and 30. In the U.S., there are 66 million. In what ways are they similar? How do they differ?

What’s on the minds of millennials (八零后和九零后一代) in China and America? What are their hopes and worries? At this symposium, we’ll be exploring the aspirations of young Chinese and Americans with regard to school, work, romance, and life. What are their attitudes toward gender and generational roles? What obligations do they feel towards their own dreams, toward their families, their friends, their employers, and their communities? What does how they spend their time and money signal about their priorities?]

 

AssassinsMace

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Looks like Monster Hunt made $256 million in 14 days. That beats I believe Fast and the Furious 7 which made something around $250 million in the same amount of time. Now the next mark to look out for is all-time biggest box office in China at something like $399 million I believe held by Fast and the Furious 7 again.
 

ABC78

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“The Three Body Problem” movie: sci-fi made in China?
“The Three Body Problem” movie: sci-fi made in China?

Published on Aug 27, 2015

The movie based on the award-winning novel "The Three Body Problem" has just finished filming earlier this month, after five months of hard work in the snow-crested Lesser Xing'an Mountains in northeast China. Written by Chinese author Liu Cixin, the novel is the first Chinese sci-fi work to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel last Sunday. The award is considered a breakthrough for Chinese sci-fi literature.
 

Blitzo

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“The Three Body Problem” movie: sci-fi made in China?

I haven't read the book yet (waiting for summer break to really get into it), but I definitely have hopes for the movie to be a unique sci-fi film not only for China, but also for the genre at large.

I wonder if they'll adapt the rest of the trilogy too (The Dark Forest and Death's End)
 

ABC78

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China Box Office: ‘Regiments’ Wins on Patriotic Holiday Weekend

[China Box Office: ‘Regiments’ Wins on Patriotic Holiday Weekend

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 | 07:03PM PT

Patrick Frater
Asia Bureau Chief

The long holiday weekend failed to boost the overall China box office, though individual films, notably “The Hundred Regiments Offensive,” got a lift.With Thursday and Friday taken as holidays to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ending of hostilities with Japan, the top ten films achieved a combined gross of $111 million over the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6. That compared with $136 million the previous non-holiday week (Aug 24-30).The nationalistic nature of the holiday may have helped patriotic film “Regiments,” overtake “Terminator Genisys” and rise from second place to take the top spot. The film scored $39.4 million, an increase of 71% on the performance of its first three day opening, according to data from Ent Group. After 10 days it stands on a cumulative score of $62 million.According to the data, “Regiments” achieved that score with only 99,700 screenings in the week, compared with the 250,000 that “Terminator Genisys” enjoyed. That gave the film a per screen average more than double its nearest competitor. However, in “Regiments” first week there were numerous reports that cinema operators had been given financial incentives by authorities to promote the film.While the incentives were previously said to be halted on Sept. 3, a number of private sector distributors took to social media to voice doubts about the veracity of the “Regiments” figures. In previous examples of box office fraud designed to boost favored patriotic movies, exhibitors have issued tickets to the film being boosted and then hand-written the patron’s chosen movie over the top.“Terminator” dropped by 54% in the period to gross $26.7 million. After 15 days in theaters it stands on a cumulative total of $112 million.Chinese suspense film “The Dead End” remained in third place, but improved its score. It grossed $22.4 million in its second week, up 13% on the $19.8 achieved in its first weekend. After 11 days it has amassed $43 million.Hong Kong director, Johnnie To’s delve into corporate politics “Office” score $6.9 million on its 5 day debut and landed in fourth place.“Monster Hunt” remained in fifth place and added $4.83 million, pushing its cumulative total to $389 million after 53 days. It now seems certain to overtake “Furious 7” and become the highest grossing film of all time – and all nationalities – at the Chinese box office.“Go Away Mr Tumor,” was down 66% to $3.45 million in its fourth week. That gave it a 25 day cumulative score of $81.6 million. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “The Assassin” slipped by 53% in its second week. It earned $3.02 million, for an 11 day cumulative of $9.39 million.Brazilian new release “Amazonia” earned $1.76 million in 3 days for eighth. Chinese animation “Enchanted Mirror Romance” took $1.67 million in 4 days for ninth. Hong Kong romantic comedy “All You Need Is Love” took $1.46 million in 3 days for tenth.]

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China accused of fraud as government-backed film outperforms Terminator: Genisys

[China accused of fraud as government-backed film outperforms Terminator: Genisys

The state allegedly offered cinemas a financial incentive to post bogus box-office revenues for the patriotic war epic The Hundred Regiments Offensive

When the patriotic Chinese war movie The Hundred Regiments Offensive outperformed Hollywood blockbuster Terminator: Genisys in the world’s most populous nation, most observers considered the feat just another example of thegrowing strength of locally produced films. But according to the Hollywood Reporter, evidence has emerged to suggest that Communist party officials ordered cinemas to produce bogus box-office data for the nationalist epic, then hailed its success as the result of a spontaneous outburst of patriotism inspired by the recent 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the second world war.The US trade bible cites an anonymous, widely circulated essay titledEntertainment Capitalism, which alleges that cinemas screening The Hundred Regiments Offensive were offered up to 100% of revenues received for the film, tax free, provided they reported hitting specific box-office targets. Staff allegedly worked the scam by issuing cinemagoers with tickets for the Chinese-made film even when they had paid to see other movies, with the title The Hundred Regiments Offensive crossed out and replaced with handwritten details of Terminator, or other films. The revenue was then logged for the government-backed war epic. Some cinemagoers have posted videos of the fraudulent process on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.It is not only in Hollywood that the issue has gone down poorly. The heads of two of China’s largest independent film companies took to social media this week to suggest that The Hundred Regiments Offensive “stole” box office from their own Chinese-made films.

”Where’s all the box office gone? Please keep those dirty hands away!” posted Wang Zhonglei, president of studio Huayi Brothers, whose romantic drama Tale of Three Cities appeared to suffer after opening on the same day as The Hundred Regiments Offensive.Bona Film Group CEO Yu Dong, whose detective-themed thriller The Dead End also suffered in comparison with the homegrown blockbuster, wrote on WeChat: “We never steal others’ box office, so please don’t steal ours.” His post was accompanied by a mock poster for The Dead End inviting followers to whistleblow examples of box-office fraud at their local cinemas.The Hundred Regiments Offensive ultimately came out well ahead of Terminator: Genisys for the week of 31 August to 6 September in China, according to official figures, taking $39.40m (£25.6m) compared to the Hollywood movie’s $26.67m. But experts say the apparent triumph is spurious since the Chinese film had 99,728 screenings against 250,435 for Alan Taylor’s sci-fi sequel. So far, there has been no official response from the Chinese government.The Hollywood Reporter suggests Paramount Studios, which released Terminator: Genisys, may have lost as much as $11m in revenues due to state tinkering. But that may ultimately prove a small price to pay for access to the world’s second-largest box office: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to his iconic role as the T-800 cyborg has posted a huge $111.92m total in China, almost singlehandedly pushing the film into the black after it disappointed in North America. And studios would be unlikely to kick up much of a fuss, since the state controls the annual quota of 34 foreign films given permission to screen in China.]

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