China’s Alibaba Says Business Is Back to Normal, Quarterly Profits Hit $5.6 Billion

Reviews are in for Niki Caro's long-awaited live-action remake ofMulan, starring Liu Yifei in the title role opposite Jet Li, Li Gong, Donnie Yen and Jason Scott Lee. In the film, a young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father from military service.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo apartments in Beijing that are home to movie star Jackie Chan are being forcibly put up for auction. The reason appears to be an ownership dispute.The adjacent apartments in a residential compound in the capital city’s Dongzhimen district are where Chan and his family have lived since 2007.

The Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio says the 2010 reboot, produced by Will Smith, should have been called The Kung Fu Kid.Macchio, who played Daniel LaRusso in the original 1984 film, explained to The Guardian why the modern remake should have had a different title in keeping with the location change.The revival, which moves from Los Angeles to China, should have been renamed The Kung Fu Kid because, as Macchio points out, “there’s no such thing as karate in China”.The film received mixed reviews

Rebecca Davis editorChina this week became the first global market to make a “full box office recovery” according to targets developed by the U.K.-based film industry analytics firm Gower Street, the company said Thursday.The firm created five targets to track and compare the paths of different territories’ exhibition sectors back to recovery.

Kate Winslet has been taking the coronavirus pandemic very seriously from the beginning.

IMAX theatres at the Chinese box office continues to exceed our expectations and reinforces our belief that audiences are eager to return to theatres where local guidelines allow,” said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX in a statement.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok has a message for Donald Trump: See you in court.The short-form video app company, currently owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, confirmed that it plans to file a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Trump’s Aug.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineYou’re in the billion-dollar club, Harry.Two decades after it was released in theaters, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office.

Harry Potter is enjoying a new from the top.

Rebecca Davis editorPeter Chan’s hotly anticipated biographical sports drama “Leap” is set to hit China on Sept. 30, becoming the first of the Chinese New Year blockbusters canceled due to COVID-19 to set a theatrical outing.Local animation “Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification,” which was also originally scheduled to premiere over the lunar new year, will premiere the day after.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPresident Trump, in a new executive order Friday evening, set a 90-day deadline for China’s ByteDance to fully divest the U.S. assets of TikTok based on the U.S.

Also Read: Tucker Carlson Says America Needs to Be More Like China (Video)“Kanye West is running for president but that’s not really the headline. The headline is that on core conservative issues, not political issues like legislation before the Congress, but on foundational questions about life and children and what happens when you die, no one with a national platform has been more honest or sincere or effective than Kanye West has been.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorChina’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorPopular video-sharing app TikTok said it may turn to the courts after an Executive Order by President Donald Trump last night effectively banned it from the U.S. on Sept.

enough.Tucker spent the first nine minutes or so detailing various containment measures that blue states have implemented, specifically calling out contact tracing efforts and economic shutdowns — things China did to contain its outbreaks.

$250 million investment by Sony that was announced in early July.

Hollywood is guilty of censoring its films to placate China and avoid losing access to the country’s hugely lucrative box office market, a report has claimed.