On Jan. 7, K-pop boy band SF9 released their first Korean LP, fittingly titled First Collection, and held a showcase event for fans at Seoul’s Blue Square IMarket Hall.
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China’s total box office may have hit another record high in 2019, but a struggling exhibition sector and plummeting growth in lower-tier cities will likely sow seeds of trouble in 2020 for the world’s second-largest film market, Chinese firm Tencent Entertainment said in a year-end discussion paper.
China’s theatrical market has grown an impressive 60-fold in the past twenty years, but since 2015, growth rates have seen a “cliff-like decline,” the report notes. Last year’s box office was
On Jan. 7, K-pop boy band SF9 released their first Korean LP, fittingly titled First Collection, and held a showcase event for fans at Seoul’s Blue Square IMarket Hall.
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By Nancy Tartaglione
The largest film studio on the planet, China’s Hengdian World Studios, has announced it will shut down indefinitely, as productions in other parts of the country also announce they are closing up shop in light of the worsening coronavirus epidemic.
Doctors in the UK are continuing to test patients for deadly Coronavirus today as the death toll in China reached more than 40.
Just days ago, no one would have predicted that China’s most lucrative film-going season was about to be derailed by the escalating epidemic of a novel coronavirus that is now rapidly spreading through the country and beyond.
China's biggest movies of 2020, which were scheduled to release Saturday on the first day of Chinese New Year, have been preemptively pulled from cinemas in response to the coronavirus outbreak that has plunged the country into crisis.Chinese New Yearis the biggest blockbuster period in the world by far, and the coming week was expected to generate as much as $1 billion in ticket sales revenue.Distributors and exhibitors in Beijing tell The Hollywood Reporter that the decision to postpone the
The releases of all new movies this week in China have been cancelled as a response to the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. The move is a massive blow for the Chinese film industry.