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The Communist Party Congress that concluded in Beijing on October 22 reinstalled Xi Jinping as China’s leader for an unprecedented third term. As regards the entertainment sector, it is clear that the policies already in place from his previous term will continue.

The Financial Times is reporting that the Chinese money poured into Hollywood starting in 2012 is drying up. FT cites Rhodium Group, a research firm: “The peak came in 2016, when Chinese companies invested roughly $4.

Gizmodo is reporting that Return to Dust, directed by Li Ruijun, a film that was on the top ten charts for a few weeks grossing over $7 million, and which screened at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, was pulled from streaming services in China. While social media users have commented on the disappearance of the film on some platforms, Weibo has banned users from making any mention of the deletion.

The nonprofit journalism organization restofworld. org is reporting that there are great profits for Chinese creators in reducing Hollywood movies into TikTok videos of a few minutes with the help of machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs.

China Daily reported on August 29 that director James Cameron showed an exclusive clip of Avatar: The Way of Water in Beijing on August 19, along with a video greeting attendees from the China Film Group who were present. The clip was in the CINITY format of 3D, 4K, and high-frame-rate, and was screened at the CINITY Lab of China Film.

China Daily reported the remarks of a Chinese official who was asked whether the tension between China and the US is having an impact on the import of Hollywood movies. Sun Yeli, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China responded at a news conference in Beijing, “We are ready to introduce foreign films from any country as long as it can produce good films that cater to the needs and interests of Chinese audiences.

Moon Man, the blockbuster Chinese sci-fi comedy, has sold over 50 million tickets in just over two weeks of release and is breaking box office records in covid times. For the weekend, it earned $31.

Chinese sci-fi comedy Moon Man, continued its domination of the Chinese box office, revitalizing the theatrical industry. It has already made $297.

A new release, Chinese sci-fi comedy Moon Man, skyrocketed to the top of the box office after it opened this weekend, also showing on IMAX. Its presales had been off the charts – 100 million yuan - by Thursday, the biggest of the summer season according to Lighthouse, the entertainment data company.

Don’t look for a China release for Thor: Love and Thunder, the seventh Marvel Cinematic Universe film in a row to be banned in China. While the Taika Waititi-directed film opened to a worldwide $300+ million, it is unlikely to be passed by the Chinese censors presumably because of LGBTQ references - the Valkyrie character coming out as bisexual and Korg fathering a child with another male.