ATF: China-Made Documentaries Stretch From Pandemic Response to African Business Heroes

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese social media firm Kuaishou and post-production and VFX company Motion Magic Digital Entertainment have both taken further steps towards initial listing of their shares.Kuaishou, which may be the world’s second most downloaded video sharing app after Bytedance’s TikTok/Douyin, is reported to have set a date and target price for its previously announced IPO in Hong Kong.

Skylar Mack, a Georgia teenager who was imprisoned in the Cayman Islands earlier this month for breaking COVID-19 protocols, had her jail sentence reduced from four months to two months by an appeals court Tuesday, the Cayman Compass reports.  Skylar Mack, 18, who is a pre-med student at Mercer University, visited her boyfriend, 24-year-old Cayman Islands-native Vanjae Ramgeet, on Nov. 27 and was supposed to quarantine for two weeks, as mandated by the island.  But on Nov.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStrand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Anthony Chen’s “Wet Season,” which represents Singapore in the Oscar race for best international feature film.The movie world premiered in the Platform section at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is being represented in international markets by Memento Films International.Penned and directed by Chen, “Wet Season” revolves around a Chinese language teacher whose marriage and school

A Georgia college student jailed for four months in the Cayman Islands for neglecting to follow novel coronavirus-related quarantine guidelines faces stringent consequences because local officials "needed to make a statement," her grandmother told Fox News on Friday. Jeanne Mack, the grandmother of Mercer University student Skylar Mack, told Fox News’s Trace Gallagher the 18-year-old has posted negative results for COVID-19 each of the six times she’s been tested.

With a newly elected Democratic president, this is the season of speculation, where names are being floated as potential ambassador picks. And this time around, The Walt Disney Co.’s executive chairman Bob Iger is getting attention as a prospect for one of the highest profile foreign posts, China.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese cinema chain JinYi Media has agreed a 12-theater deal with premium large format tech company Imax. The deal involves upgrading seven of Jinyi’s existing Imax sites to use laser technology, and the installation of Imax kit at five new sites.

Rebecca Davis editorChina’s top TV regulator on Monday issued a list of 102 state-backed TV documentaries set to hit the airwaves by 2025, indicating the kind of content Beijing wishes to promote amongst local viewers in the years to come.The titles are the first batch selected by China’s National Radio and TV Administration as part of a project begun in 2018 to “create and promote documentary films that ‘Record the New Era’ ” That means the development of propaganda that bolsters the ruling

The lack of media attention paid to Rep. Eric Swalwell's, D-Calif., Chinese spy entanglement is “infuriating, corrupt, and disgusting," Rep.

With its theatrical window deal signed by AMC and Cinemark, Universal and Focus Features have continued to lead the struggling pandemic box office as “The Croods: A New Age” earned its third straight No. 1 weekend and the studio’s seventh straight weekend atop the charts with $3 million from 2,115 screens.Overseas, the film added $6.6 million in China and $8.4 across all overseas markets, including openings in Mexico and Ecuador.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIn traveling all the way to the U.S. to continue her academic career, 26-year-old Chinese grad student Yingying Zhang confessed to her diary that she had doubts about her journey: Thinking of her adoring, none-too-wealthy parents, she questioned whether it was worth their “emotional and financial sacrifice” to send her abroad.

Following reports of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., being targeted by a Chinese spy and Hunter Biden revealing his business dealings with China are under federal investigation, Rep.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNeill Blomkamp shot an entire movie during the coronavirus pandemic.The “District 9” and “Elysium” director made a supernatural horror movie over the summer in Canada’s British Columbia. Blomkamp also wrote the script for the movie, which has a cast consisting mostly of Canadian actors.The film, Blomkamp’s first since the 2015 sci-fier “Chappie,” is backed by Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios.Plot details are being kept under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca F. Kuang’s series of fantasy novels including The Poppy War, are set to be adapted for television after Peter Luo’s Starlight Media optioned the rights.

supply chain problems are already surfacing — AMC Theaters has already voiced its objections to the studio’s plans and promised to defend its interests in ongoing talks.“Croods: A New Age” will soon join the ranks of early streaming releases, as the deal made between Universal and several major theater chains will allow them to release the film on PVOD after next weekend.

San Mateo County will not immediately implement Gov. Gavin Newsom's regional new stay-at-home order as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations spike in the state.

Also Read: 'Wolfwalkers,' '76 Days' Win Audience Awards at AFI Fest 2020Wu, whose other films include “People’s Republic of Desire” and “All in My Family,” was not thinking about filmmaking when he planned a trip to China for himself, his partner and their children in late January of this year.