China is Having a Little Mini Movie Poster Revolution – Blackface be Damned, Wakanda Forever! By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large February, 2018. Editorial This is Part I
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For February, March, & potentially April we will have only one in-depth Silk Celluloid Podcast on Castbox.fm, along with a few Special Guest Interviews with
There is No Apple, Only Apple CHINA
Tim Cook’s Focus on “Apple China” Supersedes User Data Risk & Beijing Probably Already Has Yours…. By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large Editorial. January, 2019. Apple has had a rough year,
新年快乐 China Watchers!
Nihao China Watchers, as we leave the #YearOfTheDog everyone here @ SilkCelluloid.com – Your Thread to the Middle Kingdom – wishes you a #prosperous #YearOfThePig In the Year of the
China’s DMG Ent. Fully Acquires the 3rd Largest Shared Comic Book Universe
DMG Entertainment’s Full Acquisition of Valiant Comics & Pushing-Out Its Core Team, Are RED FLAGS By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large Editorial March, 2018. The entire creative
Smart Cinema Has a Five-Year Plan of One Billion New Screens Across China
The Chinese Start-up Smart Cinema is Looking to Bridge the Gap Between the Box-Office & Digital Release Windows This week in Shenzhen Jack Gao, former
China’s Movie Theater Experiments: A Knee-Jerk to a Slowing China Box-Office
Smart Cinema & iQiyi’s Yuke On Demand Private Cinemas Highlight Box-Office Plateau & Not Start-Up Disruption. By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large June 2018. Variety’s Patrick Frater brought
In China Female Superheroes Are Box-Office Gold
Ant-Man and the Wasp just broke Chinese box-office records in its opening weekend with $68.2MMUSD. By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large Sept. 2018. Over a non-Chinese holiday Monday Ant-Man and the Wasp continued from its
‘Tomb Raider’ Bucks the Growing China Box-Office Trend, That No One is Paying Attention To
Tomb Raider – Opening Weekend, $41.6MM / Second Weekend Drop 32% By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large April, 2018. Tomb Raider – Opening Weekend, $41.6MM / Second Weekend Drop 32% Black Panther – Opening
China CANNOT Save Blade Runner 2049
Most pundits have said that Blade Runner 2049 will need to rely on China to put it in the black, but this will not happen. By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large October,
Chinese Production Budgets Skyrocket
But at What Cost & What is Being Overlooked? By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large July, 2018. Red Liberation Cinema in China is pushing the production budgets to
‘Asura’ is NOT China’s Most Expensive Movie
But, It is Already One of the Biggest Flops of All Time By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large July, 2018. Trade HEADLINES: China’s Most Expensive Movie Ever / China’s First $100MMUSD
China’s Box-Office Inequality
So-Far, Only 6 Chinese Films Have Been Profitable in 2018 (Reportedly) By Ryan Carroll, Editor-at-Large July, 2018. According to WeChat / Weixin’s media account Yiqi Pai Dianying of the Top 50
Fu Manchu and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Shang-Chi’s first appearance in ‘Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu’.
Amazon’s $1Bn China Strategy: “The Three-Body Problem’
Amazon Studios is rumored to be earmarking $1BnUSD to acquire the rights and produce three seasons of the breakout science fiction trilogy by Liu Cixin The
