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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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Some 50 new movies will hit Chinese theaters by the end of August, taking the total number of releases in this season to 90.
One of the most anticipated films of the summer season, Wu Kong, suffered an early blow when a leaked version of the film was circulated online before its scheduled premiere last Sunday.
A new round of intra-Syrian talks aiming at ending the seven years of war in the country started on Monday.
“Despicable Me 3,” the animated sequel from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, topped the Chinese box office with an estimated 438 million yuan (64.4 million U.S. dollars) in the week ending July 9.
The Oscar winner Emma Stone said her unnamed male co-stars had to cut their pays to tackle inequity.
“Despicable Me 3,” the animated sequel from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, nabbed the top spot at the North American box office with an estimated 75.4 million U.S. dollars in its opening weekend.
Chinese drama series and video programs produced for online broadcasting are now facing tighter regulations.
Twenty-eight people were injured in a night club shooting incident early Saturday morning in Little Rock city, Arkansas.
Local police have arrested a man in kidnapping Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign of Midwest U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, the White House said Thursday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that the capture of historical al-Nuri mosque in the old city of Mosul marks the end of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.
Going from a little-known film to a trending topic on social media, Paths of the Soul, a Chinese film about a group of Tibetans heading out on a pilgrimage, looks like it is about to see a turnaround similar to that of Indian sports film Dangal.
Film-makers from BRICS countries will have more exchanges in the future.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" - the first book in the series about the boy wizard.
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will allow the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its travel ban from six mostly Muslim countries.
Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday.
Four Arab states that have severed ties with Qatar have issued a list of 13 demands for Doha to end the crisis, including reducing its ties with Iran and closing the Al-Jazeera TV station.
Shares in Wanda Film Holding, which crashed almost 10 percent on Thursday, recovered 3.6 percent to close at 53.80 yuan ($7.87) on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Friday.
On June 16, Return to the Wolves debuted in Chinese mainland cinemas. The documentary film follows Green, a young wolf raised in captivity that is eventually returned to the wild.
Italian Film Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries Association (ANICA) and Xinhuanet launched the “Focus on China” at the 74th Venice International Film Festival in Beijing on Thursday, aiming to build the Belt and Road cultural exchange platform and to further promote the international promotion of Chinese film industry.
