China Film File: Jia's Jury Seat, Censor Strategies, And Rom-Com Riches
Welcome to China Film File, a weekly brief on the business of movies in China. In this week’s news: Jia Zhangke is picked for a spot on the Cannes jury, South Korea makes co-production moves, and Legendary’s CEO comes clean about China.
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- This week’s box office results saw the two homespun films take the lead from the previously top-grossing import Captain America: The Winter Soldier .
- Along with two other filmmakers from Asia, Jia Zhangke, the director of the controversial Touch Of Sin, has been picked to join the nine-strong jury for this year’s Cannes festival.
- Chinese independent film director Zhang Juan, who has made quite a few censored films about rock and roll and queer culture, gave a hopeful take
- South Korea’s CJ Entertainment has announced a Chinese co-production thriller titled The Peaceful Island and has two more films slated for mainland release .
- In an interview with Hollywood Reporter , Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull candidly delivered his opinion on the state of China’s film market:
- China Real Time published an interesting article that attempts to explain China’s infatuation with movies that chronicle the romance of blinged-out teenagers and romances in first-tier cities such as the Tiny Times franchise.
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