Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions’ $150 million tentpole feature launches to $65 million overseas for an early total of $121 million worldwide.
Directed and written by Beijing-based Light Chaser Animation founder Gary Wang, animated feature ‘Little Door Gods’ will be released in China on January 1, 2016.
Two weeks after its release, Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ narrowly beats out Sony’s new action-comedy ‘Pixels’ at the North American box office.
Canada's ‘Leon’ to enter the Chinese market in 2016 in partnership with SHIAO Animation; multiplatform strategy to include TV and VOD distribution, publishing, interactive, and licensing and merchandising.
CCTV acquires broadcast rights for ‘Peppa Pig’ in China; master toy range to launch in Chinese market beginning in July.
Game developer Tore Blystad discusses the challenges of setting up a game studio in China.
New trailer for Beijing studio’s debut feature marks a significant moment both for founder Gary Wang and China’s burgeoning animation industry.
Inaugural celebration for comic fans and pop culture lovers will take over Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing on May 16 & 17.
Shanghai-based studio, known for its radical reinvention of Batman, Catwoman and Bane in Cartoon Network’s 2012 DC Nation shorts ‘Batman of Shanghai,’ is one year into production on its first feature-length project.
Leading industry professionals share top-notch innovations at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center.
A five day Animation, Comics, and Technology Exhibition held in conjunction with the 7th Xiamen International Cyber Sousa Animation Festival, August 15 - 19.
Digital Domain co-founder Scott Ross and Columbia University Professor Steven Feiner to share expert insights into computer graphics and augmented reality at the 7th ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference and Exhibition running December 3-6 in Shenzhen, China.
New theme park will include attractions created exclusively for China, plus Universal’s most popular theme park experiences from across the globe.
Based in Beijing, Stephanie Zhang will offer on-the-ground support to U.S. kids producer’s current clients and partners and work with the company to build new relationships in the Chinese market.
Guru Studio appoints Ciwen Media Group to represent ‘Justin Time’ in China.
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution strikes multi-year deal with Chinese online video site.
Paul Candland is named to the newly created position of president, The Walt Disney Company, Asia, with oversight of Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Greater China; Stanley Cheung, managing director of TWDC Greater China, is promoted to chairman of TWDC Greater China.
DreamWorks Animation’s ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ is set to arrive in China next month, giving the animated sequel a crack at the world’s fastest growing movie market.
According to figures released at the tenth China International Cartoon and Game Expo in Shanghai, China's animation industry generated $14 billion (87 billion yuan) in revenue last year.
Beijing-based Xing Xing Digital and Los Angeles production company Pelagius Entertainment are to partner on the feature animation ‘Smart.’
Universal Pictures taps veteran Hollywood studio executive Jo Yan to serve as managing director and executive vice president of its China operations.
Beijing Pangu Investments, Ltd. and Paramount Pictures resolve the accusation that the studio breached its promise to feature the distinctive Pangu Plaza in the ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ film set to premiere Friday, June 27.
3D live action-CGI hybrid feature to debut in February 2015.
Marvel's newest blockbuster makes a whopping $39.23 million over its first three opening days in China; DreamWorks Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman comes in second place with $7.63 million.
My impressions, after working and living in China, contradict those initial assumptions and reflections from a year ago, when I visited China the first time.
