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Personal account of Jonathan Papish, Chinese Film Industry Analyst for @china_film; Chinese to English Audiovisual and Literary Translator

 New York, China
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It’s pretty simple. Hu pooped his pants.
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人之初性本善 #ChloeZhao
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AVENGERS: ENDGAME earned est. ¥320M ($47.6M) on Thursday bringing its two day China total to ¥1.045B ($155M)
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AVENGERS: ENDGAME broke the all-time opening day record for an imported film earning a massive ¥535M ($79.6M) on Weds in China. Including a revised ¥189M ($28.1M) from Tuesday midnights, Marvel's juggernaut has grossed ¥724M ($107.7M)
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AVENGERS: ENDGAME earned est. ¥176M ($26.2M) from Tuesday midnight screenings in China obliterating The Fate of the Furious’ previous midnight record of ¥62.7M.
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China Box Office retweeted
Ben Lindbergh@BenLindbergh14 Feb 2019
Wrote @ringer about why China's sci-fi spectacle The Wandering Earth is making so much money, why it represents a milestone for Chinese moviemaking and Chinese sci-fi, and what its success might mean for Hollywood. theringer.com/movies/2019/2/…

Wandering Eye: What China’s Biggest Sci-Fi Movie Yet Could Mean for Hollywood

After a record-breaking opening week, ‘The Wandering Earth’ could jump-start a wave of domestic blockbusters in the world’s second-largest market. Does that change the calculus for Western studios?

theringer.com
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China’s box office hit a staggering ¥1.455B ($216M) on Tuesday, Lunar New Year’s Day, breaking its own worldwide single day record of ¥1.277B from last year’s CNY by 13.9%
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Misleading marketing for Bi Gan’s LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT hoodwinked mainstream audiences into shelling out ¥267M ($38.8M) on opening day. Ratings for the arthouse film are understandably abysmal (3.6/10 on Maoyan) and tomorrow’s BO will drop 95%+
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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE debuted in China on Friday in 1st place with est. ¥45.3M ($6.6M)
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Director Wang Lina’s 王丽娜 debut A FIRST FAREWELL 第一次的离别 which won Best Film at last month’s Tokyo Film Festival will have its European premiere at Berlinale in the Generation programme
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Hiyao Miyazaki's classic MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO debuted on the big screen in China for the first time Friday grossing est. ¥19.4M ($2.8M)
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Indian biopic PAD MAN debuted with est. 10.1M ($1.5M) on Friday. The film is being distributed locally by HY Media 环鹰时代
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AQUAMAN earned est. ¥86M ($12.5M) on its second Friday, only -45% opening day. Superhero films typically drop 60%-70%. China's 8-day total rises to ¥1.0166B ($147.2M)
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China Box Office retweeted
NHK WORLD News@NHKWORLD_News10 Dec 2018
'My Neighbor Totoro' finally hits screens in China www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/n…
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Wang Bing's 'Dead Souls', his 495-minute documentary about survivors of Mao's ideological re-education camps of the 50s and 60s, is a Critics Pick in the New York Times. Multiple screenings in three parts at @AnthologyFilm in NYC Dec 14 - 21. nytimes.com/2018/12/13/movie…

‘Dead Souls’ Review: Forgotten Victims of Mao’s Camps Speak (Published 2018)

More than eight hours long and harrowing to watch, Wang Bing’s “Dead Souls” is a necessary look at China’s brutal re-education camps for “rightists.”

nytimes.com
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I gave #CrazyRichAsians some tough love in this piece by ⁦@Katmyu⁩. I want to see that sequel stick it’s landing next time around! aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/c…
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AQUAMAN opened in China today with est. ¥162M ($23.5M).
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WB made a crazy stupid decision using up a quota spot for CRAZY RICH ASIANS. The North American BO smash crashed and burned in China today opening to just ¥2.95M ($425K)
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VENOM continued its dominance on Friday earning ¥85.5M ($12.3M) to bring its 8-day China total to ¥1.155B ($166.4M)
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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD stalled in its China debut on Friday, earning a 2nd place finish with ¥86.4M ($12.5M). User ratings are dismal for the sequel and it will likely fail to match its predecessor’s ¥590M ($85M) total
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