Fox s The Fault in Our Stars grossed $307 million globally in 2014.
Cancer drama A Little Red Flower has touched the hearts of local filmgoers and earned $167 million, but an official paper trail in Beijing appears to show how the movie grew out of Fox s 2016 efforts to produce a licensed remake of its Shailene Woodley-starring hit.
After overtaking North America as the world s biggest box office last year, China s film market is off to a roaring start in 2021. The country s cinemas sold nearly $200 million worth of tickets over the New Year holiday, the strongest first weekend since record-keeping began in 2011.
Driving much of the earnings was the Chinese blockbuster
January 10, 2021
A promotional poster for The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity, which Netflix is scheduled to release outside China on February
Netflix
Popular Chinese novelist and screenwriter Guo Jingming may have finally apologised for plagiarising another writer’s work on the last day of 2020 – some 14 years after a court ordered him to do so – but has he been forgiven?
A recent blockbuster film directed by him was abruptly pulled from cinemas across China this week. While the reason for its withdrawal is unknown, those in the industry suspect it has something to do with Guo’s now tarnished reputation.
Based on the Japanese fantasy novel
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Two Chinese films accused of plagiarism to be removed on Monday: report
Chen Xi Published: Jan 03, 2021 06:23 PM
Film director Guo Jingming (right) and actor Mark Zhao (left). Photo: IC Citing industry insiders, Chinese entertainment site ifeng.com has reported that two Chinese films that have been accused of copying foreign works will be removed from cinemas starting Monday. The report comes as Guo Jingming, an author and the director of one of the films, apologized on Thursday for plagiarizing another author s work in one of his novels from nearly two decades ago.
According to the site, industry insiders and one employee from Oran Universal Cinemas in Beijing confirmed on Saturday night that Chinese consume fantasy film