Hollywood Co-Produces in China + CN Documentaries

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(1) Ben Fritz and John Horn, Reel China: U.S. Film Producers Are Engaging the Chinese. Los Angeles Times, Aug 24, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-film-quota-20110824,0,4753176.story

Quote:

"The latest 'Transformers' sequel has sold more than $159 million worth of tickets in China this summer, with 'Kung Fu Panda 2's' Chinese gross at $92 million — more than the animated family film generated in France, Germany, Spain and Britain combined. * * * The revenue-sharing calculus is complex, but it leaves an American film's backers with no more than 17.5% of all Chinese ticket sales, compared with the typical 50% in U.S. theaters. The huge Chinese gross for 'Transformers 3' brought Paramount Pictures less than $30 million.

"But in order to qualify for a co-production, American scripts must be approved in advance by the government, which can be unpredictable in what it censors and what it doesn't. 'No one really knows where the boundaries are,' [Trevor] Short[, Nu Image's chief financial officer] said.

Note:
(a) Huayi Brothers Media Corp  华谊兄弟传媒股份有限公司
http://www.hbpictures.com/
(based in Beijing)
(b) China Film Group  中国电影集团公司
(c) Hot Summer Days (2010)  全城热恋
(d) High School Musical: China  歌舞青春


(2) Reed Johnson, China's Cinematic Revolution; A 12-movie series at REDCAT reveals the daring independent streak shown by a new generation of filmmakers working with scant resources outside government purview. Los Angeles Times, Apr 3, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/reelchina/la-ca-china-film-20110403,0,1260072.story
("The series depicts a country in which gleaming new corporate high-rises loom like giant terra-cotta warriors over tattered but teeming residential areas. 'You cannot walk in a major Chinese city, or even a small Chinese city, without walking in a field of rubble,' says Berenice Reynaud the series' other curator and a film scholar who's on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts. 'It's 'destroy, destroy, destroy.'")

Note:
(a)
(i) REDCAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDCAT
("Opened November 2003, REDCAT is a contemporary arts center that is an extension of CalArts campus, and serves as the professional presenting arm of the Institute. The name REDCAT is an acronym for the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater")
(ii) Roy Disney was Walt's older brother. Roy married Edna Francis.
Disney family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_family
(iii) Founded in 1961 by Walt Disney and based in City of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is private, comprising undergraduate and graduate students.
(b) Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema. REDCAT, Apr 6-9, 2011.
http://www.redcat.org/event/between-disorder-and-unexpected-pleasures
(c) HAO Jie's "Single Man"   郝杰导演《光棍儿 》
(d) "Night of an Era"  Zaijian Wutuobang  再見 烏托邦--by director 盛 志民 (2009)
(e) ZHAO Ye/ Jalainur
赵晔 / 扎赉诺尔 (蒙古语，意为"海一样的湖泊"; a 2009 film)
(f) The movie review mentioned "their bosses' party-line platitudes."

platitude (n; French plat "flat, dull"):
"1: the quality or state of being dull or insipid
2: a banal, trite, or stale remark"
www.m-w.com

Definition 2 in this context.
(g) Zabriskie Point (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabriskie_Point_(film)
(a 1970 film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, widely noted at the time for its setting in the late 1960s counterculture of the United States. Some of the film's scenes were shot on location at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley)
(h)  LIU Jiayin/ Oxhide  刘 伽茵/ 牛皮
(i) JIA Zhangke's "I Wish I Knew" (2010)   贾 樟柯/《海上传奇》
(j) A Spring in a Small Town
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_in_a_Small_Town
(小城之春; a Chinese film released in 1948)
(k) vérité (n; First Known Use 1966):
"the art or technique of filming (as a motion picture) so as to convey candid realism"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vérité
(l) Olivier Meys & Zhang Yaxuan: A Disappearance Foretold (2008)
奥了/张亚璇:  《前门前》



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