An upcoming Sino-US production claims to bring genuine action to the big screen.
Online flicks are easier to produce and bypass traditional distribution platforms and once uploaded to Chinese video sites, they can reach an audience of some 650 million.
Brian Samuels is the man behind Mount Doom's seething lava in The Lord of the Rings series, the crushing of robots in I, Robot and the crumbling of King Kong's jungle.
People take a train on subway line 2 in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, Dec 2, 2015. Six carriages of a train on subway line 2 have been decorated in the theme of Shenyang's history.
Teachers and students practise tai chi, a Chinese martial art, in snow in Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Dec 1, 2015.
China and South Africa have held more than one hundred wonderful activities and events in major cities in the nine provinces across South Africa since South Africa officially kicked off the Year of China on March 15, 2015.
"Bakugai(爆買い)," a Japanese phrase used to describe the shopping spree carried out by Chinese tourists in Japan is selected as one of the most memorable buzzwords in Japan on December 1, 2015.
The press conference for the grand cultural feature series, The Road of Rice, was held in Beijing on Dec 1. Two episodes of the documentary are expected to be finished before the 2016 Spring Festival.
A memorial featuring a brothel where Japanese troops kept women as sex slaves during World War II opened to the public in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province on Dec 1, 2015.
Replicas of eight caves in China's Mogao Grottoes have gone on show in Shanghai.
The revival of Tianqiao and its new performing arts center means Beijing can welcome shows that couldn't come to the capital before.
Sa Dingding is among the few Chinese pop stars who have grabbed the attention of Western audiences.