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The History of Chinese Cinema: 2011-2012 |
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| 2011 | ||||
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Gross box office sales for 2010 rise 61% to a record £0.945 billion (US$1.47bn). Much of the increase is due to Hollywood imports such as Avatar, although domestic successes such as Aftershock also contribute. [ADD] |
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| 28/1 - | Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness (1989) tops a poll of the 100 Greatest Chinese Movies carried out by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. [MORE] | |||
| 23/3 - | China fails to respond to a 19th March WTO deadline ruling that it must comply with their decision that it must relax controls over the film industry. [MORE] | |||
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Johnnie To’s romantic comedy Don’t Go Breaking My Heart is released. Gao Yuanyuan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu star. [ADD] |
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The Walt Disney Company confirms it has begun construction of a $4.4 billion theme park in Shanghai. [ADD] |
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| 29/4 - | Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s The Lost Bladesman, a costume drama starring Donny Yen and Jiang Wen, is released. [ADD] | |||
| 14/5 - | Actress Tang Wei's scenes are cut from The Founding of a Party, a forthcoming film to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Communist party, following objections from 'Red' families that guard Mao tse tung's legacy. The awarding of the role to her was seen as marking the end of a virtual blacklisting because of her explicit sex scenes in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (2007). [ADD] | |||
| 16/12 - | Yimou Zhang's Jin líng shí san chai (The Flowers of War), in which Christian Bale stars as a westerner who poses as a priest during Japan's 1937 ransacking of Nanking, is released. [ADD] | |||
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| 16/4 - | The 3D re-issue of James Cameron's 1996 movie Titanic breaks domestic box office records by taking $58 million in its opening weekend. [ADD] | |||
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