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Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning romance Call Me By Your Name has been yanked from the Beijing International Film Festival’s lineup, a source close to the movie confirmed to Deadline. No official reason has been given for the move. However, it comes amid a shift in oversight of China’s film industry to the Propaganda…

When China abolished the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television last week, state media said a proposed new body overseeing radio and TV management would fall directly under the State Council, i.e., more firmly under the thumb of the Communist Party. But a question mark was left over…

China is to abolish the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, forming a new agency that will be under the control of the State Council. The move follows the recent and indefinite extension of Xi Jinping’s tenure as President of China. The media authority was formed in 2013 as a means…

A Beijing court has accepted a case that would require Chinese media authority SAPPRFT to clarify the legal or policy basis of its listing of homosexual relations as “abnormal” within a regulation that stipulates principles for online content providers. The Global Times reports that private citizen Fan Chunlin has…

In October, China’s state media authority predicted box office growth of as much as 20% or more across the full year, landing at an estimated RMB 55B ($8.3B) in what would be a record take for the massive market. With a month and a half to go in 2017, Middle Kingdom turnstiles clicked past RMB 50B ($7.53B) on Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: As Hollywood and the Middle Kingdom look to increase cooperation, Warner Bros this week held its first U.S.-China Exchange Program, an initiative designed to foster industry and cultural best practice sharing. The launch edition was focused on talent management and casting and featured eight China-based…

In November last year, China established a new film industry law which vowed to be tough on box office fraud. The rules came into effect on March 1, and this week, the Middle Kingdom made good on its promise to crack down on cheats. A total of 326 cinemas have been punished for violations, the official Xinhua news…

China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee on Monday adopted a film industry law which, among other measures, promises to be tough on box office fraud by doling out steep fines and suspensions. It also seeks to promote “core socialist values” and prohibits local groups from cooperating with overseas orgs or…

Chinese media authority, SAPPRFT, has slapped the distributor of Ip Man 3 with a one-month suspension from releasing films after investigating it for box office fraud on the Donnie Yen/Mike Tyson-starrer. Beijing Max Screen (aka Dayinmu Film) has admitted to buying 56M yuan ($7.7M) worth of tickets and fabricating…

In an effort to drive box office of its films outside China, the Chinese government is said to be lining up incentives for Middle Kingdom pictures which perform above a certain threshold overseas. Reports in local media today say the word comes in a circular from a special film industry commission under the auspices…

It's been a strange year for Hollywood in China, with triumphs and frustrations in the booming market that's set to supplant the U.S. as the No. 1 box office territory as early as 2017. What this next year holds is to a degree anyone's guess since the powers that be in the Middle Kingdom are known to move the…

China’s media authority, SAPPRFT, has been relatively quiet during the past blackout month at the box office, but piped up over the weekend to tout the monster returns of smash hit Monster Hunt. The CGI/live-action fantasy adventure film has led the international box office for two frames in a row, beating out comers…