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'The Mermaid' and 'Zootopia' top China's $6.6 billion 2016 box office

A February film was the high point for China’s 2016 box office, with Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid outswimming Disney’s Zootopia and two other Hollywood films to emerge as the year’s winner....

Copper mining firm buy of Hollywood production company is scuttled

One of the stranger Chinese acquisitions of a Hollywood property to be announced this year is not going forward. Copper mining firm Anhui Xinke New Materials, which said in November that it planned to acquire an 80 percent stake in the parent company of Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures for $350...

Lumyer app enables selfies with characters from Universal's 'Sing'

Lumyer, a photo and video enhancement app, has debuted eight new special video effects in partnership with Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s new animated comedy, Sing. The release of the video effects comes in advance of the movie’s Dec. 21 release....

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs is named 'Pioneer of the Year'

The Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation announced that Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will receive the 2017 “Pioneer of the Year” honor on March 29, 2017 at CinemaCon, the annual theatre owners’ convention in Las Vegas....

Walt Disney International earns CineAsia Distributor Award

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International will receive the “Distributor of the Year” Award at the CineAsia Awards Ceremony on Dec. 8 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. The award will be accepted by David Kornblum, VP, theatrical sales and distribution, APAC/Russia and global acquisitions, The...

Sony's Dick Sano earns CineAsia Lifetime Achievement Award

Noriaki (Dick) Sano, former managing director of film distribution at Sony Pictures Releasing International,will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at CineAsia on Dec. 7 during the Sony Pictures Releasing product presentation at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre....

China exceeds quota on Hollywood films amid box-office slowdown

China appears to have abandoned its strict foreign-film import quota in the final months of 2016 in order to bolster sagging annual box-office growth figures....

IMAX and Warner Bros. extend long-term partnership

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced a multi-picture worldwide agreement that includes up to 12 new films from the studio’s upcoming slate as an extension of the two companies’ longstanding partnership....

China Film Bureau: More competition from foreign films

China Film Bureau chief Zhang Hongsen has warned the country’s film industry to prepare for competition from more foreign films entering the market in 2018....

IMAX and 20th Century Fox expand partnership

Re-upping their existing long-term partnership, IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox signed a new multi-picture agreement including four key future tentpoles from the Fox slate. The deal includes Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Predator, Alita: Battle Angel and the studio’s untitled Marvel...