Phoenix Television has launched the Plane-Tree Project at the Phoenix Center in Beijing, aiming to set up an open stage that allows media services to cross all the fields and welcomes cooperation in any form. Phoenix believes that the Plane-Tree Project will lead the media to a new era.
Three years after Ning Hao and Xu Zheng made Breakup Buddies, the highest-grossing domestic title of 2014, the two filmmakers have teamed up again for a new comedy.
Film Still Tomorrow, a Chinese documentary on a controversial poet, was released on June 18 at the ongoing Shanghai International Film Festival.
The sci-fi comedy Meow, starring Hong Kong actor Louis Koo, recently delayed its premiere to July 14 — a week later than the original date.
The new film Genghis Khan, produced by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud and helmed by ethnic Mongolian director Hasichaolu from China, will open across the Chinese mainland on Dec 22.
Collaborations with the Chinese mainland are all the rage in the city's movie industry, whose comedy and action brands are drawing audiences on both sides of the border.
Hong Kong filmmakers are faced with the rapid development of the global film industry and challenges from the booming market in the Chinese mainland.
Purchases of Chinese films by Vietnamese companies have increased in the past years.
Online streaming site iQiyi has paid a record 420 million yuan ($61.8 million) for the rights to remake China's all-time highest-grossing movie, The Mermaid into a television series.
This year's Vision Youth Awards honor short films and documentaries on important topics made by Chinese students.
Li Weiyi, who returns a young wolf to nature in southwestern China's vast grasslands, will see her story hit the big screens on Friday.
The latest Transformers film will release in China soon after its North America debut, and there are hopes it could do exceedingly well in the country.