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Chinese cinema offers noon nap service with flat seats to boost lunchtime business

A cinema in northwestern China has gained attention on social media for its unique noon nap service, offering adjustable seats for workers to relax during their lunch breaks. This...

What Hong Kong cinema can take away from a popular Chinese war film

In late August, I took my parents to see Once Upon a Time in the Middle East in their small-town cinema on the mainland. Built around an unnamed conflict widely understood to be th...

How a Chinese film shot in dialect is finding a global audience

A Chinese cook in the Middle East serves up a very different anti-war film

This summer, Chinese anti-war film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East has dominated the mainland box office. The film implicitly answers the question: what happens when a story ab...

China Debuts Its First Fully AI-Generated Film

China’s first full AI-generated feature-length film, a historical fantasy called Sanxingdui: Future Past, opened in theaters on Friday. The post China Debuts Its First Fully AI-Gen...

China film studio lets tourists act in short dramas for US$30 to fight low attendance

China’s Hengdian World Studios, the world’s largest film and TV studio, is now offering tourists the chance to shoot their own short dramas for about 200 yuan (US$30) per person, a...

Пекин защитит традиционных актеров от искусственного интеллекта

В Китае пресс-канцелярия Госсовета КНР провела пресс-конференцию, посвященную стремительному развитию киноиндустрии и ры

China’s first AI film hits cinemas

The platform also projected that its total box-office earnings could remain below 150,000 yuan, a tiny fraction of its production budget of more than 10 million yuan.

Inside Venice’s Unlikely Double Feature: A $300 Million Hitmaker and a New Generation of Smart Devices

Director Lan Hongchun and tech giant Honor are both making the same pitch on the Lido this year: that anyone with the right tools can become a filmmaker.

China's First Fully AI-Generated Film Struggles at Box Office

BEIJING, China -- China's first fully AI-generated feature film opens in cinemas on Friday in what promises to be a tough box-office test for the country's booming tech industry as...

China Box Office: Crime Procedural ‘Traces of Justice’ Leads National Day Frame

New Classics Pictures’ crime procedural drama “Traces of Justice” took the top spot at the mainland China box office during the Oct. 2–4 weekend, grossing RMB208.9 million ($31.2 m...

How a Small Chinese Drama Became a $300 Million Phenomenon

'Dear You' director Lan Hongchun on the film's surprise success, its real-life family reunions and its arrival at TIFF's China Film Showcase.

How Can a Chinese Film Touch a Nerve among Some in the West?

Recently, a Chinese film set against the backdrop of war in the Middle East, Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant (released in overseas markets under the title Once Upon a Time in the...

Hollywood fears an AI future. China is already living it

The AI trends upending China's entertainment industry may be a harbinger for what's to come in Hollywood.

Hollywood fears an AI future. China is already living it

The AI trends upending China's entertainment industry may be a harbinger for what's to come in Hollywood.

Zhang Yimou Teases Chinese ‘Three-Body Problem’ Movie at Busan Film Festival’s Star-Packed Opening

Alfonso Cuarón, Korean star Hyun Bin and the cast of Lee Chang-dong's 'Possible Love' walked the red carpet for Asia's leading film festival, where Michelle Yeoh and Ann Hui both r...

The Popularity of Niu Lai Shows the Sheer Complexity of the Contemporary Pop Culture Mentality

A mother-and-son team, a budget of less than USD 1,000, and five years of handmade graphic work on secondhand computers, and a production company that used to be a house decoration...

Viral Chinese Hit ‘Niu Lai’ Projected To Top $9M After Selling Fewer Than 300 Tickets In Its First 10 Days

The mother-and-son production expanded from fewer than five daily screenings to about 22,000 at its peak, turning online mockery into a theatrical phenomenon.

Arranca el Festival de Cine Chino y premian concurso “Miradas que Conectan”

La muestra cultural sigue valiéndose del séptimo arte como puente cultural entre China y Venezuela La entrada

China supports live-action micro-short dramas, tightens regulations on AI productions

China's new policy to strongly support live-action micro-short dramas while tightening regulations on AI-generated productions

Фильм "Добро пожаловать в ресторан "Лун" выдвинут на премию "Оскар"

Китайский художественный фильм "Добро пожаловать в ресторан "Лун" официально вошел в гонку за премию "Оскар" в категории

Hàn Quốc đỠxuất TP.HCM hợp tác sản xuất phim

Tổng lãnh sự quán Hàn Quốc tại TP.HCM dự kiến tổ chức diễn đàn vỠcông nghiệp điện ảnh vào tháng 11, hướng đến thúc đẩy đồng sản xu...

China’s first AI-generated film hits cinemas amid weak sales

China’s first fully AI-generated feature film, “Sanxingdui: Future Past”, has opened in cinemas to a lukewarm reception and poor advance ticket sales. Read More: https://punchng.c...

Quality over quantity: China’s AI microdrama producers battle viewer fatigue

Two decades after stepping away from the spotlight, iconic actress Joey Wong made an unexpected return to the screen – not through a traditional production, but via artificial inte...