YOU On Demand Holdings, Inc., China's leading national Pay-Per-View (PPV) and Video On Demand (VOD) platform, and Hua Cheng Film and Television Digital Program Co. Ltd's China Home Cinema (CHC) have entered into an exclusive deal.
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The flood of TV dramas depicting ancient court struggles are nothing but banal productions that could lead to a misunderstanding of China's history. The SARFT has banned such TV dramas at prime time.
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The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has announced China's total box-office for the year 2011. According to the reports, the grand total has exceeded 2-billion US dollars up 30% from last year.
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Youku Inc., China's leading Internet television company ("Youku"), announced a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on 11 Jan, under which Youku will license 250 titles of new release and library films.
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China’s two biggest video websites are fighting a court battle over accusations they are misusing each other’s programming as rivalry heats up in an industry that is luring viewers away from bland state TV.
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The book, compiled by writer Fang Xi, gives a record of Zhang's life through photographic images. This is the only biography authorized by the director, who sees it as a "life assignment" that he has now handed in.
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The long-simmering debate in China about film ratings has come to the boil again with the release of Zhang Yimou's graphically violent Flowers of War.
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The China Film Directors' Guild Award was reinstated Sunday in Beijing with about 200 directors attending, hoping to boost the Chinese film industry and bring recognition to directors' hard work.
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China's film watchdog is mulling measures to make going to the cinema more affordable, including setting a maximum price for tickets and boosting the number of half-price screenings.
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Analysts predict it is only a matter of time before China overtakes the $10-billion-plus North American box office, as this market of 1.3 billion potential moviegoers awakens.
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