Second part of Ann Hui‘s adaptation of “The Romance of Book and Sword” novel by Louis Cha, “Princess Fragrance” screened one month after the first installment, concluding a production that took the Hk director three years to complete.
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Following the Emperor’s promise to help the Red Flower Society in their effort to overthrow the Qinq empire, after his relationship with Chen Jialuo was revealed, the latter finds himself in the midst of the Uighurs. While in southern Xinjiang, he falls in love with Kasili, the local princess, but gets entangled in a love triangle as her sister, Huoqingtong, also has feelings for him. At the same time, the Qinq army, under general Shao Wei is about to attack the Uighurs. Huoqingtong, who believes that tactics can give the Uighurs the victory against the three-times larger army of their opponents,...
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Following the Emperor’s promise to help the Red Flower Society in their effort to overthrow the Qinq empire, after his relationship with Chen Jialuo was revealed, the latter finds himself in the midst of the Uighurs. While in southern Xinjiang, he falls in love with Kasili, the local princess, but gets entangled in a love triangle as her sister, Huoqingtong, also has feelings for him. At the same time, the Qinq army, under general Shao Wei is about to attack the Uighurs. Huoqingtong, who believes that tactics can give the Uighurs the victory against the three-times larger army of their opponents,...
- 8/30/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The economics of China’s film industry is no longer an unbroken story of double digit growth. Nor was 2018 quite as bad many companies have portrayed.
A major report on the business, published in Shanghai this week by the China Film Association, in partnership with the Motion Picture Association, showed the number of cinemas grew last year, but also that per screen attendance dropped. Theatrical box office grew by 9% to $9 billion, but China’s share of the global total only edged up from 21% in 2017 to 22% in 2018.
Liu Jia, film distributor and expert on the industry numbers, called 2018 “an up and down year” at a presentation on Thursday at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Her analysis of the Cfa data showed China as now “firmly the number two film market in the world,” increasingly dominated by female audience tastes, and increasingly driven by word of mouth marketing. Online ticketing is now dominant,...
A major report on the business, published in Shanghai this week by the China Film Association, in partnership with the Motion Picture Association, showed the number of cinemas grew last year, but also that per screen attendance dropped. Theatrical box office grew by 9% to $9 billion, but China’s share of the global total only edged up from 21% in 2017 to 22% in 2018.
Liu Jia, film distributor and expert on the industry numbers, called 2018 “an up and down year” at a presentation on Thursday at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Her analysis of the Cfa data showed China as now “firmly the number two film market in the world,” increasingly dominated by female audience tastes, and increasingly driven by word of mouth marketing. Online ticketing is now dominant,...
- 6/21/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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