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Danny Boyle meets Tang Lijun in Shanghai
Coverage of the 12th annual Shanghai International Film Festival, which runs June 13-21. More
 
DirecTV is launching a 24-hour Chinese channel, dubbed "Charming China," on Friday to bring popular Mandarin entertainment programs from nine popular provincial channels in China to Chinese-language viewers in the U.S. More
Chinese Internet portal firm Sohu and video sharing firm Ku6 said on Tuesday they will set up a fund to buy licenses to show Hollywood movies and television shows on their Web sites, catering to increasing user demand for Western media. More
ChinaVision Media Group, the new vehicle for film industry veteran Dong Ping, is to move into the mobile TV sector in China. More
The World Trade Organization's top arbitrators upheld a ruling that China is illegally restricting imports of U.S. music, films and books, and Washington pushed forward with a new case accusing China of manipulating the prices for key ingredients in steel and aluminum production. More
The Chinese government's latest campaign against pornography on the Internet and through mobile WAP sites will continue through May next year, with an emphasis on breaking the business that support the sites, the Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. More
President Barack Obama's half brother in China says he has not accepted requests to be in the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" because he wants to focus on his writing and charity work. More
China has revoked permission for cable operators to distribute commercial network Sun TV due to its outspoken talk shows, sources said on Monday, as part of a government crackdown on content deemed sensitive and too bold. More
After last year's Olympics drew global attention to China's shining modernity, 2009 proved a year of firsts for Hollywood studios trying to break into -- and ring serious returns from -- the planet's fastest-growing movie market. More
Digital cinema and 3-D were very much at the heart of this week's CineAsia, Asia's annual convention for the exhibition and distribution industries. More
China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites in what it says is a fight against copyright infringement, but could be seen as another measure aimed at controlling what content the country's Web users can find online. More
Giant-screen movie operator Imax said Tuesday that it was in talks with at least five film companies in China as the company moves to cement its presence in Asia. More
BBC Worldwide Channels Asia has appointed Otto Leong as its distribution head for China and Taiwan. More
"Titanic" director James Cameron will visit Beijing as part of the promotional tour for his new film "Avatar," landing in the Chinese capital December 23, state media reported Saturday. More
China's leading Internet firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment aims to buy more digital entertainment platforms and game content developers to diversify its revenue stream. More
A trio of Singaporean, Chinese and U.K. firms have pacted to co-produce an HD documentary series, "Monumental Challenge." More
Taiwan social drama "No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti" won Chinese cinema's top honor on Saturday -- a rare victory for an industry that has been overshadowed by big-budget blockbusters from rival China. More
More than a decade after Disney made a blockbuster animated film out of a folk tale about a young woman in ancient China who takes her father's place on the battlefield, a Hong Kong director is taking on the story of Hua Mulan with real actors. More
China's No. 1 online payment firm Alipay is expected to top eBay Inc.'s unit, PayPal, by transaction value in two years, to become the world's leading e-payment service, Alipay's president said Tuesday. More
China's economic planning agency has formally approved a plan to build a Disney theme park in Shanghai, ensuring the city will have a new showcase attraction after next year's World Expo has wound down. More
Director Derek Yee plays with guns in “Triple Tap," a cops-and-robbers thriller with a twist co-invested by Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures and China’s PolyBona International, and co-produced by Hong Kong Sil-Metropol Organization. More
On his just-completed swing through some of the Confucian parts of Asia -- China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea -- President Obama faced issues with which the film industry in this part of the world already is familiar. More
"High School Musical" will graduate to college in China, where Walt Disney Motion Pictures International hopes to finish a Mandarin-language feature film version of the global franchise by year's end. More
Once the most celebrated actress in China, award-winning Chinese screen legend Liu Xiaoqing will return to film in Hong Kong director Dennis Chen’s drama “37," in a role that rendered her unrecognizable, Liu told the Hollywood Reporter. More
Vampire movies will get a trial run in China with the Nov. 25 opening of "Twilight," as local censors and audiences gauge their thirst for blood in this superstition-wary market. More
China's equivalent of the U.S. networks' "upfront" ads sales drew record bids of 11 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), marking an 18.5% jump in the potential cost of 2010 prime time spots on China Central Television, the state's flagship broadcaster. More
 
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