Nielsen, a leading provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, today announced the availability of Nielsen TV Brand Effect in Europe and Asia. Nielsen TV Brand Effect is available now in China and Germany, with additional market launches slated for later in 2012.

Iranian drama "Bear" was named the Best Feature Film at the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF)'s Golden Goblet Awards ceremony held at Shanghai Grand Theater in Shanghai on Sunday, the last day of this year's event.

The owner of Dick Clark Productions, the producer of the Golden Globe awards show, started evaluating a sale of the firm after receiving an expression of interest from an unnamed Chinese media firm, the New York Times reported.

Beijing-based film and television investment company United Film Investment recently filed suit against the China Film Group in the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court. United alleges that the China Film Group violated a number of terms of the companies' agreement for the film My Own Swordsman, on which they cooperated, including "severe falsification" of box office profit reports.

As an up-to-the-minute entertainment option for Internet users, micro films have become an Internet sensation. Youku, one of the country's most popular video websites, started producing its own online short movies in 2008 and has since launched a series of successful films.

The company will be SINA’s exclusive content provider for all entertainment news, feeding up-to-date, edited, translated and subtitled content to the largest Chinese-language web portal in the world. With HDM’s capabilities, SINA will be able to offer its readers bilingual, Hollywood-related news as it happens.

Wang Jianlin, chairman of Beijing-based Wanda Group, talks with THR about his recent purchase of AMC Entertainment, his admiration for Hollywood and why China needs to rethink the way it regulates film content.