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During his lengthy career as an agent, David Unger saw there was a future in representing actors from the growing international marketplace. That's what led to the creation of the Artist International Group in 2019. Judging by the success of everything from Shang-Chi and Lupin, to Parasite, Narcos, Squid Game, Money H…

Editor’s Note: Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel’s new book Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy includes a chapter on Fan Bingbing, one of China’s biggest global stars who disappeared from public view in 2018 shortly after she was cast to star in the female action spy…

I remember being in Cannes in 2018 as five top female stars announced with great fanfare an action movie project that would reverse the time-honored tradition of almost exclusively male ensemble films in the genre. The quintet — Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Fan Bingbing and Diane Kruger (who subbed…

Jessica Chastain revealed that The 355 came out of seeing little to no action films featuring women ensembles. After learning about the women involved in international espionage while working on Zero Dark Thirty, the producer and star said she knew a story about women spies was worth telling. During the New York Comic…

Universal has dropped the official trailer for espionage thriller The 355 (aka 355). The female-fronted globetrotting actioner stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing, Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramírez. Check out the first look above. Universal still has this one dated on…

Chinese megastar Fan Bingbing is poised to make her screen comeback after a two-year exile following the tax evasion scandal that saw her retreat from the limelight. The South China Morning Post is reporting that her period drama Win The World, a $70M budgeted streaming series, will debut on the Alibaba-owned service…

The international spy thriller 355, which was the biggest deal at last year’s Cannes, has added Avengers: Endgame‘s Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez, and set a July 8 production start in Paris, London and Morocco. Scripted by Simon Kinberg and scripted by Theresa Rebeck, the film is a global espionage thriller that…

After implementing a crackdown on tax evasion last October, China's tax authority has collected RMB 11.75B ($1.73B) from film and television industry professionals, the State Administration of Taxation said on Tuesday. The campaign is ongoing and will now enter a new phase of supervision and correction. The program…

China box office for 2018 rose 9% over 2017, reaching RMB 60.98B ($8.87B), official figures now show. That's a softer increase than the 13.5% we saw from 2016-2017, but is in keeping with the market's target of RMB 60B. Although there was no single behemoth breakout like 2017's Wolf Warrior 2, a handful of local…

Lionsgate is expected to go ahead with its domestic home entertainment release of Air Strike next week, despite the cancellation of a Chinese theatrical bow on October 26 (Lionsgate is not involved in the China release). The WWII movie stars Bruce Willis and Fan Bingbing, and the scrapping of its Middle Kingdom date…

For a while there, it seemed increasingly dubious that Warner Bros’ domestic smash Crazy Rich Asians would gain entry to the world’s second-largest market. Today, however, comes word that the film has secured a November 30 China release date, which WB has confirmed to Deadline. Based on the Kevin Kwan novel and…

In the wake of the scandal that recently engulfed superstar actress Fan Bingbing, China has launched a campaign to regulate the payment of taxes within the film and TV industry. A notice posted by the State Administration of Taxation aims to promote the healthy development of the business which has been suspected of…