China's answer to Netflix is debuting an AI filmmaking tool in hopes to create the first commercially successful AI movie this year. Reading time 3 minutes A company dubbed China’s Netflix expects a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish filmmaker Miguel Ángel Jiménez, the writer-director of Willem Dafoe starrer The Birthday Party, has set his next feature film with AF Films. The new drama, dubbed Hijos del Miedo, ...

Influencer Johnny Somali has been sentenced to six months in jail. Somali (real name Ramsey Khalid Ismael) was arrested in South Korea in 2024 on multiple charges including distributing fabricated ...

The Chinese box office was once a coveted space for American-made movies. But shifting government content controls and postpandemic Hollywood trends have made the region less of a player in the global ...

Shares of Chinese film and entertainment companies fell sharply after a poor showing at the box office over the Lunar New Year holiday. China Film Group, Shanghai Film and Hengdian Entertainment all ...

Acclaimed overseas for defying censors, Lou Ye is more interested in reaching Chinese audiences, as he holds up a cinematic mirror to their lives in modern China. The Chinese director Lou Ye, at his ...

EXCLUSIVE: Spain’s AF Films has joined Oppenheimer producer Charles Roven on action pic Hammer Down, but Idris Elba is no longer attached the project. Roven and his Atlas Entertainment and AF will ...

With widespread critical acclaim, nine Oscar nominations and an A24 record box office run under its belt, “Marty Supreme” will be coming to movie theaters in China later this year. China Film Group ...

This article is part of Sixth Tone Voices & Opinion’s end-of-year series reviewing how China’s AI, film, game, and VR industries evolved in 2025. It was a good year for Chinese cinema. Total box ...

When director James Cameron landed in China earlier this month for the Hainan Island International Film Festival in Sanya, it was a homecoming of sorts. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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