China’s film industry had a great year in 2025 as the popularity of animated sequels, including “Ne Zha 2” – the world’s top-grossing film last year – and Disney’s “Zootopia 2” helped to generate an ...

For years, Hollywood executives have treated China as a tantalizing but unreliable prize: a massive audience that could supercharge a blockbuster’s global haul, yet one governed by opaque rules, ...

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It used to be that China was a gold mine for certain types of U.S. films. Big studio blockbusters. Action movies. Animated flicks for the whole family. (All with the caveat, of course, that they were ...

China has frozen regulatory reviews for new Japanese films, adding to the fallout from a dispute over Taiwan that shows little sign of easing. The China Film Administration paused the approval process ...

BEIJING - The latest animated film adaptation of the popular Japanese manga "Demon Slayer," a global box office smash, debuted in China on Friday, setting a ticket presale record on the mainland as ...

Jia Zhangke on the first day of the 9th Pingyao International Film Festival PYIFF Celebrating its ninth edition this year, Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF), founded by Chinese auteur Jia ...

Something weird is happening with the release of the Australian horror movie “Together,” starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, and it’s not the plot in which — spoilers! — their bodies start fusing ...

HONG KONG — A U.S. film distributor has criticized a Chinese studio for reportedly using artificial intelligence to make a gay couple straight when distributing the body-horror film “Together” in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. dave franco alison brie together movie poster The age of AI censorship is here. Moviegoers in China have reported that a scene in ...

"I will change my destiny!" A24 has unveiled a brand new official US trailer for the animated sensation Ne Zha 2, a massive animated hit from China. Ne Zha 2, which is indeed in the sequel to Ne Zha 1 ...