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Chinese movies earn 4 bln yuan abroad in 2017

Chinesemoviesearned4.25billionyuan(662.7millionU.S.dollars)inoverseasmarketsin2017,11.19percentmorethantheyearbefore,accordingtoFriday'sChinaFilmNews."WolfWarri

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Afghanistan's lost movies, hidden from the Taliban, go digital

WhentheTalibanchargedintoAfghanistan'sstate-runfilmcompanyinthemid-1990sintentondestroyingallthemovies,HabibullahAliriskedeverythingtosavethem.Hehidthousandsofr

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Is the pay gap between men and women in Hollywood growing?

LastweekForbesreleaseditsWorld'sHighest-PaidActorslistandsittingatthecovetedtopspotwas"Transformers"starMarkWahlberg,whopulledinawhopping$68millionoverthelastye

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Chinese movies 'have to change' and improve quality, says filmmaker Dayy

AlotofChinesefilmmakersnowadaysdonotpayattentiontoqualityastheyrushtomakemovies,andthis"willhavetochange",Chinese-AmericanfilmmakerDayyanEnghaswarned.“It'sjustf

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Young audiences exposed to more smoking in US movies

A new study shows that tobacco use in US-released movies aimed at young people rose sharply between 2010 and 2016.

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Young audiences exposed to more smoking in US movies

AnewstudyshowsthattobaccouseinUS-releasedmoviesaimedatyoungpeoplerosesharplybetween2010and2016.Duringtheperiod,46percentoffilmswithsmokingimagerywereyouth-rated

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Cairo Int'l film festival kicks off with China as guest of honor

The 38th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) opened on Tuesday in the Egyptian capital, with China as the guest of honor of the oldest film festival in the Middle East region.

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73rd Venice Film Fest kicks off amid tight security, high expectations

Surrounded by tightened security measures, the 2016 Venice Film Festival kicked off here on Wednesday amid high expectations of a top quality event.

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"X-Men: Apocalypse" made me weep with hopefulness for mankind

​The reviews are in and all the critics except me hate the new X-Men movie. While they're right that it's not objectively a good movie, it is a great cinematic representation of the X-Men and a perfect summer movie.

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China to overtake US to be world’s largest film market

Most movie industry observers expect China will overtake the United States to become the world's largest film market, by revenue, by 2017.

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Film industry eyes box office records amid Chinese cinematic boom

China's rapidly expanding film industry is aiming to smash box office records the forthcoming film season with movies from the country's best homegrown talent.

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Golden period for low-budget Chinese movies

The instant success of "Black Coal, Thin Ice", a Chinese production which won a Golden Bear for best film at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, is further evidence of the increasing popularity of low-budget movies in China.

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Foreign films lead Chinese box office in 2012

China is now the world's third-largest film producer and second-biggest film market. However, ticket sales for imported movies totaled 8.8 billion yuan, or 51.54 percent of gross ticket revenue, ending domestic films' nine-year dominance at the box office. 

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China's box office sets new record in 2012

China's film industry earned about 16.8 billion yuan(2.69 billion U.S. dollars) in the box office in 2012, with domestic movies contributing less than half of the revenue, the Chongqing Economic Times reported on Thursday.

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China's box Office in 2012

China's film industry earned about 2.7 billion U.S. dollars at the box office in 2012...But local movies contributed less than half the revenue - despite their overwhelming majority in China's cinemas.