Conan to return with remotely filmed episodes

By Patrick Frater

China's Starlight Media and David Steward II’s growing indie studio Lion Forge Animation have entered into a joint venture partnership that will involved the two companies co-financing and co-producing a slate of animated shorts and feature films. The agreement is one of the exceedingly few Hollywood-China deals to emerge since President Trump kicked off the U.S.-China trade war in mid-2018 —not to mention amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

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By Jazz Tangcay

The New England Patriots plane is flying much-needed coronavirus crisis medical supplies to Boston from China, CBS Boston reports. A Patriots spokesperson said the team's Boeing 767 went to Shenzhen, China Wednesday to pick up 1.2 million N95 masks, and it's now on its way back to the U.S.

The couple involved in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating scandal came on set during the filming of a television series about the event, according to the writer of the programme.

As the coronavirus pandemic has become essentially contained in China, the country is trying to get back to normal. To boost its movie theatres industry, the country is all set to re-release Marvel's Avengers films in theatres. According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, the films will hit the movie screens in the next few days or weeks. Some other films which will be released in the theatres are Avatar, Inception, and Interstellar.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

The prime minister on Monday evening announced new stringent measures to limit activity in the UK, and although it wasn’t specifically labelled, it’s fair to say the region is now under a ‘lockdown’.

A man from Perth currently working in China has sent an encouraging update back to a Fair City mental health organisation.

China’s main state-owned distributor plans to issue a batch of half a dozen films, from which cinemas will keep all income, in order to get the country’s exhibition sector back on its feet after long closures due to coronavirus, it has said.

By Tom Grater

“We can’t stay closed forever"

Research by Chinese ticketing agency Maoyan appears to show that Chinese people have not lost their taste for feature films during the recent coronavirus-enforced closure of cinemas.

Despite what the company called a “challenging” period, Chinese online publisher and TV producer China Literature completed its first year on the stock market with a 22% increase in profits to $156 million (RMB1.1 billion). It was rewarded with a 10% jump in its shares by midday Wednesday.

A theater in China has decided to reopen its’ doors to the public after being locked up since the end of January due to coronavirus. However, no one showed up!