K-pop agencies Hybe, JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment and YG Entertainment have all confirmed that enquiries have been ...
Their money goes much further in China’s interior. Chinese micro-dramas are also starting to take off in the West. Some are ...
Events featuring Japanese artistes or K-pop groups with Japanese members have been cancelled in China. Read more at ...
Revenue in China from micro-dramas is projected to nearly double this year, to 90bn yuan ($12.7bn)—exceeding sales of cinema tickets. Chinese studios shot 40,000 of them in the first eight months of ...
Artsy film critics are unlikely to be impressed by China’s micro-dramas. Even so, the roughly two-minute episodes, which cram soap-opera plots into a short-video format, are wildly popular. Watched ...
Pow points to several worrying signs of distortion in China’s theatrical results of late. Just as many North American analysts have grown concerned about the U.S. studio’s reliance on ever larger ...
An unruly Chinese boy who battles dragons and defies destiny has made his way to Western cinema screens after smashing box office records in China. “Ne Zha 2,” an animated blockbuster loosely based on ...
In the shadow of “Ne Zha 2’s” blockbuster success, a quiet revolution is reshaping China’s entertainment landscape. While attention focuses on how homegrown titles increasingly outpace Western films ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the CIO of KraneShares, a China-focused ETF provider. Asian equities were higher, except for Mainland China, despite a ...