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China’s box office roars while Hollywood remains on mute
Pandemic underscores diverging fortunes of the world’s two biggest film markets
World Economy News
13 Feb 2021 • 3 min read
China’s box office was off to a roaring start during the crucial Lunar New Year holiday while the majority of cinemas remain closed in North America, underscoring the diverging fates of the world’s two largest film markets.
By 7pm on Friday in Beijing, China’s box office had already made Rmb1.7bn ($260m) in sales, according to booking service Maoyan, with 10 major homegrown films set for release during the holiday period.
The FMC-Film Music Contest Reveals Members of a Prestigious Jury
UK, Feb 8, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - FMC-Film Music Contest 2021 is preparing for its annual global launch and registration opening for music composers, sound designers and musicians from around the world.
An elite group of professionals from the EU, USA, Asia and Australia will be made up of representatives from the music and film business who actively work for national television, the largest Asian and Hollywood film studios, cultural or theater institutions, agencies as well as for Netflix.
About the absolute winners will be decided this year in seven competition categories, which will be officially introduced next week.
FMC-Film Music Contest 2021 is preparing for its annual global launch and registration opening for music composers, sound designers and musicians from around the world.
Domestic screen giant stretches muscles abroad By Xu Fan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-25 15:52 Share
Detective Chinatown 3 [Photo provided to China Daily]
As one of the most state-of-art cinematic technologies developed domestically, CGS, or China Film Giant Screen a premium large film format producer recently revealed its high-end system has been installed in more than 380 theaters in 150 cities at home and abroad.
To date, the CGS system has been installed in cinemas in Asia, North America and Europe, exemplifying Chinese cinema technology developers effort to go abroad, said Chen Jingmin, general manager of China Film Giant Screen, a subsidiary of the country s largest state-owned studio China Film Group Corporation.
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