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China Box-Office Is The Reason For No Shang-Chi Disney+ Premier Access Release

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ring‘s Official Chinese Poster States Its Release Date Of September 2nd, One Day Before Its North American Release With Hong Kong Legends Tony Leung and Michelle Yeoh Co-Starring In The Film, Along With Many Chinese Diaspora Actors, Marvel Is Banking on Shang-Chi Preforming Well At The China Box-Office; Meaning No Disney+ Premier Access The Sept. 2nd Release…

Is ByteDance Naming A CEO Whose Background Is China Tech The Right Decsion For TikTok’s International Growth

Vanessa Pappas Has Been The Interim Head Of TikTok Since August Of Last Year, Leading TikTok Through The Pandemic And The Trump Administration’s Campaign To Shutdown Or Sell Off The American-Based Chinese Tech Company. Leading Parent Company ByteDance Named A Singaporean-Native Shou Zi Chew As TikTok’s New CEO. Shou Zi Chew Was ByteDance’s CFO For Two Months Before Taking Over As TikTok’s CEO,…

Oracle As TikTok’s “Trusted Partner Still Leaves TikTok As A National Security Threat

With the News Breaking Sunday the 13th That TikTok Both Rejected Microsoft’s Bid, And Accepted Oracle’s Offer, The World Waited To See Just How This Deal Would Play Out. On Monday It Was Announced It Was Not A Sale But That Oracle Would Be TikTok’s American “Technology Partner”. A Term Sheet That Does Not Meet, Either The Standards Of The Executive Order, Nor Does It Match The National Security…

Prediction: Kevin Mayer’s TikTok Exit is Due To Impending Federal U.S. Testifying

Kevin Mayer’s Sudden Departure from TikTok as CEO After Only 4 Months, Along With Being the COO of ByteDance’s International Operations, Was a Surprise to Many But One. This Editor Predicted 5 Months AgoWhen It Was Announced He Got the Job, He May Be Gone By Year’s End. It is Not A Surprise, As Beyond the Sudden Political Executive Order by Donald Trump, TikTok Faces at Least Two Federal…

tiktok is a future security threat – not a current one

Chinese-Owned TikTok has been in the news quite a bit the last two months and most of has not been good; from India to South Korea to Western Europe, and frequently the “unstable” Trump Administration. TikTok’s dilemma is unlike any other Chinese app or social media company, in that nearly all its users are either – teens or pre-teens – and it is a Chinese tech company that is pretending to be an…

Red Liberation Films: The New Action Cinema Movement in China?

There is a small but revolutionary cinema trend going on in China, that is more important than any other group of live-action movies being made. It is the new movement of Red Liberation action cinema. Red Liberation films have been compared to or called “Main Melody” films, since they have arrived on the scene in 2017 with the bang that was Wolf Warrior 2. A Hollywood-style throwback to the…

China Box-office re-opens in “low-risk” areas and Why “Bloodshot” “Doolittle” & “1917” are the first hollywood films released in china

Today, July 20th, China is set to re-open select cinemas in areas deemed “low-risk” for the coronavirus, with Beijing and the surrounding Beijing Area not being one of them. Due to the wet market in Xifandi, which they first blamed on salmon from Norway (in an attempt to claim it as “foreign / imported” cases) that turned out to be blatantly false. How many movie theater, screens, and “low-risk”…

Disney+ Boss Kevin Mayer Moving to TikTok Could Damage His Storied Career

Kevin Mayer Chairman of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International, Whose Chin And Crew Cut Make Him Look More Like A Football Player Than A Disney Exec, Has Become The New CEO of the Chinese-Owned Tween Short-Format Video App TikTok. Mayer Is Also Taking Over The Position As COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Its Parent Company, The Chinese Wholly-Owned Entity, ByteDance. Which Has Not Only…

Could Shang-Chi’s Production Utilize The Mandalorian’s “Stagecraft” VFX to Resume Production?

Marvel Studio’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was already into production when the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak finally became visible outside of China, to the world. Even though we are finding out that it had been spreading since December in the USA, January in France, and October in Wuhan (from what we know so-far). With Shang-Chi‘s production shutting down in Australia, as its…

Is This Chinese Anime Anti-China or Pro-China Animation? A Donghua Review Video ‘Dahufa’

Dahufa is a Chinese Animated movie released in 2017 from Director BusiFan and Nice Boat Animation Studio. The film follows the titular Dahufa (meaning Great Guardian of Law and Order) as he makes his way through a walled off, xenophobic town filled with Peanut People.

By Cuchallain, Guest Contributor

April, 2020.

Video Essay

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China’s Animation Streaming Industry is Still On Schedule Because of Remote Work During the Quarantine

By Ryan Carroll, Managing Editor

March, 2019.

In the last week of March first Bilibili then Tencent Video announced their Spring / Summer Donghua, aka Chinese Anime, series line-up for streaming release.

Now for some this may come as a surprise to how 2D animation could be ready to go after an entire country was lockdown – serious draconian lockdown – for two months due to the COVID-19…

By Ryan Carroll, Managing Editor

March, 2019

Variety reported in the early hours of March 27th that Chinese Cinemas had “re-shuttered” after about 500 screens across 4 provinces and 2 autonomous regions, had re-opened for less-than a week.

These cinemas were mostly far from the major cities of the Eastern Coast, with the exception of two of the provinces.

This reporting, and the twe…

With 70,000 Cinema Screens Closed by the Federal Order from the Central Government of Beijing, How Did the China Box-Office Still Produce $4.2MMUSD in Ticket Sales?

By Ryan Carroll, Managing Editor

March, 2020.

In China ticket sales at the China Box-Office during the period from January 24th, the beginning of the Chinese New Year Spring Festival, to February 23rd was $4.2MMUSD compared…

Black Widow May Be Marvel's First Falter at the China Box-Office or the Hero It Needs

With the COVID-19 Coronavirus Having Closed Nearly All 70,000 Cinemas Across China for Over One Month, And Regulations Set in Place For When They Re-Open; for Half the Each Screen to be Half-Empty for Safety of Potential Spreading the Deadly Virus. This Could Impact the May 1st Releases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black Widow in China.

By Ryan Carroll, Managing Editor

March, 2019.

China’s Streaming Wars Has Reached America’s Shores

There Are Now Two Chinese Streaming Apps Vying For Eyeballs in America – Bambu and Smart Cinema U.S.A.

By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large

November, 2019.

BAMBU, from Cinedigm the former digital projection company turned streaming company, was supposed to have launched in Q1 of 2019. Priced at $4.99 for ad-free viewing, or $3.99 with ads, aimed at American Millenials bringing Chinese…

After ‘Ne Zha’ is China Ready for Their Own Superhero Universe?

Ne Zha has become only the 7th film ever to cross $700MMUSD worldwide and only the 2nd to do so at the China Box-Office, making it the second highest grossing film ever there behind Wolf Warrior 2.

By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large

Sept. 2019

Analysis

With the inception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Shared Universe model has attempted to be replicated by multiple studios, to…

Why Disney Should Release 'Mulan' on Chinese Streaming-on-Demand and Give Its Box-Office Cut to Cinemas as a Coronavirus Relief Fund – Opinion

Trades and Analysts Have Been Proclaiming How Mulan‘s Success Rides on Its Performance at the China Box-Office, While Overlooking the Key Factor in How Much Disney Will Actually Take From the Ticket Receipts and How it will Effect the Overall Bottom Line. The Key to Mulan‘s Success in China Resides in How Much it Will Drive Traffic to Shanghai Disneyland, and Generate in Licensing and…