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EXCLUSIVE: Another casualty of China's crackdown on potentially sensitive local films this past summer has been given a lifeline. Derek Tsang's Better Days will release this Friday in the Middle Kingdom after being okayed just this week. Well Go USA has the movie domestically and was forced to postpone the release…

Heading into the traditionally lucrative summer period, China's censors are in overdrive as two local films with big potential have been yanked from schedules at the 11th hour, while the fate of at least one other hangs in the balance. This is particularly notable given the upcoming frame would typically kick off the…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney's The Lion King is being tipped for a July 12 China release, one full week before the film's domestic debut, multiple sources tell me. Getting a jump in China is not unprecedented — Universal's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom did it last June, albeit in step with other offshore launches. What would be…

The Shanghai International Film Festival has made an abrupt and surprising change to its program, pulling Huayi Brothers’ big-budget Chinese war drama The Eight Hundred from its lineup on the eve of the event’s kick-off. The $80M epic was due to open the proceedings tomorrow and has been expected to be the 800 lb…

When it comes to box office, we often hear that China needs Hollywood just as much as Hollywood needs China — and both sides know it. But amid ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and the Middle Kingdom, there's more than a whiff of concern over a potential government-imposed rift in the coming months that could…