Popular short comedies will have their day as feature films, the latest in an online-to-cinema trend.
A well-known name in Western film circles, Chinese director Chen Kaige has now shot a martial arts movie for the first time in his 30-year filmmaking career.
The Third Wuzhen Theater Festival will run from Oct 15-24 at Wuzhen, in eastern China's Zhejiang province.
Chinese pianist Zhang Haochen is already touring the world at age 25, Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.
San Cheng Ji or A Tale of Three Cities, a movie starring actor Sean Lau Ching-wan and actress Tang Wei, will hit mainland theaters this fall, and is being seen as a Chinese answer to Hollywood's American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind (1939).
Chen Peisi, one of China's biggest comic stars, has been named as the artistic director of Beijing Comedy Theater, a new theatrical project that aims to get Beijing laughing.
A four-episode documentary, "Truth and Denial - Germany and Japan's Postwar Redemption", has debuted on China Central Television (CCTV) on June 6.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's picture arm purchased one of the largest ticketing service providers in China, in the latest move to bolster its entertainment business amid the country's movie boom.
In a dark workshop in Beijing, film reels are stacked on the floor in cases that have seen better days. Their contents are waiting to be transferred to a digital format.
Hong Kong actor Derek Yee's self-financed film I Am Somebody has been set as the opening movie of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Five more films have been shortlisted for the Golden Goblet award at the upcoming 18th Shanghai international film festival.
Alibaba Pictures is the latest online platform to make a bid for the big screen, announcing it plans to turn a popular Internet novel into a movie with the help of fans.