The film also became one of the Beijing festival's hottest buzzwords. Jiang Wen, jury president of the film festival's ...

(Indeed, the nation overtook the U.S./Canada as the biggest market in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid.) The Chinese-made Ne Zha 2 has grossed $2.11 billion to date. Hollywood has found increased ...

President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the United States ...

Take Ne Zha, for example. Originating in India ... Not long after Yuan’s death in 2021, social media users began jokingly referring to him as the new Shennong — a deity associated with farming. Some ...

Christopher Smith for TheWrap Back in 2021, without a public declaration ... when the animated blockbuster “Ne Zha 2” became among the top five highest-grossing films in history with a $2 ...

52 were approved in 2019, and 26 were approved in 2021. China has cut back in the past and was recently approving more films as the local box office struggled last year, but with “Ne Zha 2 ...