How nightclub numbers in Hindi films liberated female playback singing

An excerpt from Shikha Jhingan's book ‘The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema’ looks at the influence of nightclub songs ...
Stephen Follows

A bigger market is emerging for independent films worldwide

Audience habits, localisation workflows, and global rights deals are moving in the same direction, and the combined effect is ...
Cinema Express on MSN

Jet Li explains why kung fu is not martial arts but means something else

For years, people around the world have associated the term 'Kung Fu' with a form of martial arts in China. However, it turns out that many have been wrong about what the term actually means. And who ...
中国日报网

Documentary sheds light on Chinese helping Japanese 'war orphans'

Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi (left), Japanese actress and filmmaker Megumi (second from left), Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao (second from right), and Zhao Jie (first from right ...
China Daily Global Edition

Program continues the beautiful vitality of verse

This season also marks the program's first use of AI-generated dynamic human figures. To re-create the bustling night markets ...
KUNM

This sprawling, surrealist movie is a tribute to cinema itself

Director Bi Gan, known for his films Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey Into Night, sets his latest film in a world where ...
Forbes

IMAX Hits Record In China As Moviegoing Morphs Into Social Event

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 ...

It's not a cliché, it's historic: Inside Hollywood's Chinese Theatre

From handprints in cement to blockbuster screenings, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre offers visitors a living slice of Hollywood’s ...
MarketWatch

China made the world’s biggest movie last year, and — in a sea change — it didn’t need America’s help

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, ...
Morningstar

China made the world's biggest movie last year, and - in a sea change - it didn't need America's help

China's domestic film industry now has the scale to produce global box-office leaders on its own - even as it flexes make-or-break power over the fate of Hollywood's biggest movies Buildings in ...
seattlepi.com

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

(THE CONVERSATION) There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our ...
Westword

How Chinese Food and the Movies Became Tradition for American Jews

There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish ...