ABSTRACT
The most influential global movie market is China, soon to be the highest-grossing country. Shanghai Theatre Academy Professor of Film and Media Studies Shaoyi Sun offers a portrait, highlighting the size of the industry, rapid construction of new multiplexes; history; government regulation; China Film Group, Shanghai Film Group, Enlight Media, Le Vision Pictures; Beijing Film Studio, China Children’s Film Studio; China Film Stellar Theatre Chain, China Film South Cinema Circuit, Beijing Novo United Films, China Film Group Digital Cinema Line, Wanda Cinema Chain, Shanghai United Circuit, Dadi Digital Cinema Chain; Han Sanping, La Peikang; Film Bureau of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT); Huayi Brothers Media; Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, Feng Xiaogang, Ge You; Big Shot’s Funeral, If You are the One, If You are the One II, Personal Tailor; Bona Film Group, Ann Hui, Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, Stephen Chow, Tsui Hark, John Woo, Patrick Tam; Confession of Pain, The Cow, Legend of the Fist, All's Well Ends Well II, Lost in Thailand, So Young; Le Shi Holdings Ltd., Guo Jingming; Tiny Times, Tiny Times II, Beijing Love Story; Zhang Yimou, Zhang Weiping, Wanda Group, AMC Theatres, Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis, censorship regulation, President Xi Jinping, Huaxia Film Distribution Company, China Railsmedia Corporation; split of box office gross for domestic films, coproductions, Looper, Iron Man 3, Legendary East, SkyLand (Beijing) Film-Television Culture Development, Tianjin North Film Group, Oriental DreamWorks.
