"Straight Outta Compton" opened in the number one position at the north American box offices this weekend, with an estimated 56 million U.S. dollars in ticket sales.
The 72nd Venice International Film Festival, which will run on the Lido of Venice from Sept. 2 to Sept. 12, announced a 21-strong competition line-up at a press conference held here Wednesday.
The overwhelming success of a China-made animation has trained the spotlight on a burgeoning mode of Internet finance -- crowdfunding.
At least two Chinese movies, including Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke's latest one -- Mountains May Depart -- will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), scheduled to be held in September, as the event is going back to its Canadian roots for its 40th anniversary.
"Monkey King: Hero is Back," the 3D animated adaption of the classical epic "A Journey to the West," has reaped around 500 million yuan (about 80 million U.S. dollars) since opening on July 10, becoming the most successful Chinese animation in history.
Chinese film "The Dead End" became a bigger winner with the best director and best actor awards at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival, which ended on Sunday.
The sense of excitement at the Shanghai International Film Festival is understandable -- these are boom times for the Chinese film industry, as cinema box office soars and capital pours in.
Universal's "Pitch Perfect 2" debuted in the first place this weekend with an estimated 70.3 million U.S. dollars, beating the 44.4 million dollars made by " Mad Max: Fury Road" in ticket sales, according to studio estimates from Rentrak.
With a population of 649 million, the tastes of China's online community are transforming the domestic film industry, but insiders fear it is a change for the worse.
From a cameo by Chinese space station Tiangong-1 in sci-fi blockbuster Gravity to a comedic gang boss in Johnny Depp's latest comedy Mortdecai, Chinese elements are becoming more common in foreign movies.
Universal's "Furious 7" remains the most popular movie in North America for the third consecutive weekend, setting a speed record of one billion dollars worldwide.
The New Zealand Film Commission will bring five movies to Beijing International Film Festival start from this week and the movies are a slice of contemporary kiwi life with diversified characteristics, commission chief executive Dave Gibson said in a interview with Xinhua.
"Furious 7," the latest installment of the street-racing "Fast and Furious" franchise, will hit Chinese cinemas on April 12.
Colin Firth has departed from his typical roles in historical and romantic films to take on a more action-oriented role in his new film, "Kingsman: The Secret Service." In fact, the 54-year-old actor hopes to do even more action films in the future.
A famous protest of Australian union workers against Japanese invasion of China and the atrocities they committed against the Chinese people has become the topic of a new Australian-made documentary released on the weekend.
From nine o'clock in the evening, NDTV, one of India's largest television channel, stopped broadcasting news and put only one photo with an oil lamp, in memory of the victims of rapes which are taking place every 20 minutes in the country.
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