China Film File: Stars In Shanghai, Transformania, And Brad Pitt's Return
Welcome to China Film File, a weekly brief on the business of movies in China.
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- X-Men: Days of Futures Past is continuing to smash China’s box offices with a weekend gross of $43 million.
- Kicking off June 14th, the 17th annual Shanghai Film Festival looms over the horizon, and there is already much news being made of the wide range of international films and celebrities to appear at the event.
- While the new Transformers picture is not a co-production, the film’s business model was designed from the ground-up with the Chinese market in mind
- Continuing China’s co-production momentum, a new international deal with England has been inked for a historical epic.
- Also this week, provisional talks have begun with Indian delegates to discuss co-production deals and the potential for the country to gain a couple of slots in China’s foreign film import quota.
- China’s Bona Film has given information about its next slate of foreign imports , which, of course, are pending government approval.
- Although the actor seemed to be banned from China as a result of his role in the 1997 Hollywood feature Seven Years in Tibet, Brad Pitt was back in the country this week with wife Angelina Jolie to promote her film Maleficent.
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