Undersea sci-fi blockbuster The Meg is out to prove it's leagues apart from recent monster-movie offerings, Xu Fan reports.
Looking China, an annual youth film project, has concluded its stop in Southwest China's Guizhou province, with 10 short documentaries shot and screened.
The production team for the 2007 Chinese movie The Sun Also Rises, including its director Jiang Wen, met audiences on Thursday during the 21th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Fans of Jackie Chan will be excited to see the 64-year-old action legend showing off his death-defying stunts on big screen once more.
Nine Hong Kong films, including two world premieres, one North American premiere, and three New York premieres, will be featured at the upcoming 2018 New York Asian Film Festival in Lincoln Center, New York City.
China's rapidly expanding film industry is regularly setting new records. As of June 16, the country's box-office takings surpassed 30 billion yuan ($4.6 billion) 35 days earlier than last year, according to the live tracker Maoyan.
Top Chinese film executives believe that venture funds are withdrawing from China's film industry and predict that many Chinese film companies will go bankrupt within next two years.
The vision of building a community with shared future for mankind, first proposed by President Xi Jinping in January 2017, took a step forward on Monday as a Beijing-based media group signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations to co-stage an annual global film festival to promote the idea worldwide.
Six awards were unveiled at the first Shanghai Cooperation Organization Film Festival, which concluded on Sunday night in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province.
At a recent Beijing press conference, a movie was announced to start shooting with the goal of recreating the heyday of foreign trade in Guangzhou, the only portal city allowed to open to the West under the regime of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century.
Thirty film festivals from countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative celebrated the formation of a new alliance on Saturday, the opening day of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
A forum to promote film cooperation among Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries was held in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Thursday.
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