China Movie Industry Shares Crash as Mainland Stock Markets Reopen

Chinese industry players were predictably scarce on the Berlin sales floor as the European Film Market got fully underway Thursday.

The latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die’s, publicity tour of China has been cancelled due to deadly coronavirus. The film was scheduled to have a star-studded premiere in Beijing, in April, which would have been attended by Daniel Craig and other key stars of the movie. The 25th film of the franchise will feature Craig reprising his iconic role as 007 for one last time. According to New York Post, coronavirus has infected more than 69,000 people to date.

Age is just a number to Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the long-in-the-tooth action heroes battle it out in a new trailer for their upcoming film “The Iron Mask”.

Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger go head-to-head in the trailer for their new movie The Iron Mask!

Hengdian World Studios, one of China’s largest, cautiously reopened for business today after it shut down all production in recent weeks to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

With nearly all of China's 70,000 movie theaters still weeks — if not months — awayfrom reopening, many in the Beijing film industry have begun to hope for government bailouts as the only means of keeping their businesses afloat.The cinema sector, to be sure, is just one of many areas of the enormous Chinese economy that has been hard hit by the novel coronavirus pneumonia, now officially known as COVID-19.

Every year, the box office figures for the Chinese New Year holiday, the biggest moviegoing week in China, have been higher than the last. This year should have been no exception. But then the unthinkable happened: As the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic mounted, all seven of the unusually strong blockbusters scheduled to debut pulled out just days before their release.

Li Ruigang’s China Media Capital has raised $950 million for CMC Capital Partners III, its third U.S. dollar-denominated investment fund.

Thanks to a quirk in scheduling, Berlin's European Film Market was expected to see a record year of business activity from China's vast film industry in 2020.

Manchester Airport's flights to and from mainland China have been suspended amid the Coronavirus outbreak.

All British nationals in mainland China have been urged to leave by the UK government due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Fear of the spread of the coronavirus that is sweeping China has begun to contaminate the film industry in South Korea.

Shares in China's leading film studios took an immediate dive Monday moments after the country's stock markets resumed trading after the long Chinese New Year holiday.

A British man reportedly to have contracted deadly coronavirus claimed he beat the flu by drinking a 'hot glass of whisky with honey.'

Cathay Pacific will reduce flights to mainline China by more than half following the outbreak of coronavirus.