The Allen Wang Team will have a booth (D-06) at this year’s Beijing Film Market at the 4th Beijing International Film Festival taking place April 17th – 19th, at the China Millennium Monument exhibition hall. Allen will also be giving a 1-hour presentation on April 17th at 10:30am during the Sino-Foreign Film Co-productions Road Show held in the Theater, Zone B of the China Millennium Monument. Continue reading
Month: April 2014
Film Review: Black Coal, Thin Ice
“Black Coal, Thin Ice,” is a Chinese thriller, which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February for director Diao Yinan, while star Liao Fan took the best actor award.
Black Coal, Thin Ice: The Healing of an Impotent Man
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Rules and Regs Update
Box Office Manipulation on the Decline
One of the banes of the film production experience here in China (as well as for those foreign studios that have a stake in the revenue of their imported films) has always been that even after all the approvals and permits have been issued – and even after a movie has seen a successful release – producers could not be sure that the box office data they were receiving (and a correct share of the profits, therefore) was accurate. Over the years, there have been reports that theater operators have employed different ways to adjust the data, including selling tickets for one movie but leading patrons to another, creating handwritten ticket, or simply not reported the data from their machines.
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News Highlights: February-March 2014
1. Deal-Making Galore
Over the past few months there has been a great deal of foreign investment deals and joint ventures reported, including:
- Shanghai Media Group, China’s second biggest media group, signing a multi-year deal with Walt Disney Studios to develop Disney-branded movies. In this reported $100million deal, U.S.-based writers will team up with local writers and filmmakers to develop stories and scripts that incorporate Chinese themes in Disney movies, which could allow for easier releases of English-language films in China.
Co-Productions Continuing Challenges
The gravitational pull of China’s film market in 2014 is stronger than ever. China’s box office reached almost $3.7 billion last year — box office revenues surpassed a monthly record-setting Rmb 3 billion ($490 million) in February alone with $4.6 billion expected for 2014 Continue reading