YUNFEI SUO WRITES: Talk about fast and furious. Ticket sales of the latest installment of the epic car chase franchise have redlined in China, after The Fast and the Furious 8 (The Fate of the Furious) was released last month in the United States and China simultaneously. Sales, and the…
Tag: Film Industry
CHINA: PROPOSED LAW TAMES FILM INDUSTRY
FASSA SAR WRITES – Chinese officials say that despite the country’s current prosperity, there’s trouble brewing: commercial films just aren’t socialist enough. China’s legislature, National People’s of Congress, revisited a draft of a film law proposed in 2015 that attempts to regulate its domestic film Industry and Chinese-owned Hollywood studios.…
NEW ZEALAND: Ahoy! Piracy on the Rise
VERONICA BANEZ WRITES – Is piracy becoming too big of a problem? Some may argue that pirating movies off the Internet is simply nothing more than a form of free entertainment. After all, why pay so much money to watch a movie when one can simply get it online for…