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News on Entertainment & Culture in China

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Missing in action

Why Huayi Brothers’ hugely anticipated war movie got pulled
Jun 21, 2019 (WiC 457)

The Shanghai International Film Festival is the most prominent event of its kind in China. A-list celebrities tread the red carpet to celebrate the opening of the week-long festival every year. Amanda Seyfried added some Hollywood star power to ...

Sold out at 3am

Romance film becomes surprise hit – but was it through box office guile?
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

For some 2,000 years, Chinese people have marked the Duanwu Festival by eating sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves – called zongzi – and racing dragon boats to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a politician and poet in the ...

Buying second-hand

Alibaba’s Idle Fish platform is proving popular with celebrity sellers
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

Most celebrities do not want to be photographed in the same outfits twice and so they regularly sell their cast-off clothes. In fact, before Kim Kardashian found fantastic fame and fortune on reality TV, auctioning off her clothes and shoes on ...

Korean war movies ‘in’ – Game of Thrones and a US college drama ‘out’
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The world watched with baited-breath this week as an eight-year odyssey drew to a close and it finally became clear who had won the Iron Throne of Westeros. Well, that is, the world apart from China. There, fans of Game of Thrones ...

Wooed by Westeros

Final season of Game of Thrones gets massive audience on Tencent Video
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

Game of Thrones has won many accolades, including more Emmys than any other drama (it has received 47) and the title of most-watched show in HBO history (more than 30 million viewers an episode). Interest in the series has been ...

Heroic figures at box office

Huge opening weekend for Marvel blockbuster indicates record haul
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

Die-hard Marvel fan Xiaoli had waited anxiously for the release of Avengers: Endgame, the final film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s current series. So on April 23, the day the blockbuster came out in China, the 21 year-old Hangzhou ...

The write stuff

New hit show aims to improve the quality of Chinese songwriting
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

How much do songwriters get paid? In an era when music is primarily consumed online, just a sliver of streaming revenue is earmarked for songwriting royalties. Worse, most pop songs these days involve small gangs of writers, further eroding ...

On camera, but between acts

Reality show on celebs and their agents makes waves
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

On 27 March 1941, a day before she committed suicide, Virginia Woolf wrote to her publisher requesting he defer the release of Between the Acts because it was “too silly and trivial”. Similar to many other experimental works of ...

Are you not entertained?

Job cuts at Alibaba’s video streaming unit as new boss makes changes
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

Alibaba has pinned part of its future on its so-called ‘2H strategy’: health and happiness. The first plank is Big Health, or the market for general health and wellness (see WiC397). But to make people happier, the Chinese internet giant also ...

For crying out loud

The critics don’t like it, but a Taiwanese tearjerker wins over female fans
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

Many of the best love stories end with heartbreak. From Romeo and Juliet to Titanic or the more recent A Star is Born, the timeless tale of lovers who come to a deadly end is a Hollywood staple. Another story of ...

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