By Patrick Frater
13.05.2020 - 16:19 / variety.com
By Patrick Frater
Asia Bureau Chief
Wanda Film, China’s largest cinema chain, recently unveiled grand plans to build a further 162 new multiplexes over the next three years. That is in addition to the 73 it built in 2019 and the more than 600 it has in current operation.
But China’s market regulators at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange were not impressed. They have given the company a week to explain the details of its recent $834 million of asset impairments and its current liquidity position,
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The Shanghai International Film Festival, China's oldest and most prestigious cinema event, is the latest to fall victim to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Organizers said Wednesday that Shanghai's upcoming 23rd edition, scheduled June 13-23, would not proceed as planned.
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With the global Coronavirus pandemic that broke out in 2020, cinema halls, production houses, and all forms of entertainment put their shutters down. The year began with Coronavirus spreading its claws to take different parts of the globe in its clutches.
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