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"Breakup buddies" tops Golden Week box office
Mandarin-language movies dominated the Chinese box office in a week that included the patriotic National Day holiday, with Ning Hao's raunchy road trip comedy Breakup Buddies racing ahead.
After six days on release, the movie has taken $95 million USD (579 million yuan), with 17 million admissions and some 280,00 screenings.
It showed on nearly 40 percent of all movie screens in China and had an opening weekend take of $38 million.
Ning is seen as one of the directors who will feed China's need for content to show on the country's growing number of movie screens.
With a week that included a holiday celebrating the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it was perhaps no surprise that Chinese-language movies should notch up a strong performance at the box office.
Foreign movies generally have to make way for domestic fare at this time of year here on the Chinese mainland.
In second place was the Taiwan cop actioner Black & White: The Dawn of Justice, which took $20 million in its first five days. The movie had more than 100,000 screenings and chalked up nearly 3.3 million admissions.
In third place was Hong Kong director Peter Ho-sun Chan's Dearest.
In fourth place was the sci-fi animated feature Armor Hero Atlas, directed by Zheng Guowei, which opened on Oct. 1 and earned $5 million for the week.
Online Box Office Sales in China Rose 43 in past year
China's box-office boom, which has seen theatrical revenue rise by 20 percent a year, has been accompanied by a jump in people using online systems and cellphones to buy their movie tickets.
According to statistics released today by the research firm Entgroup, the number of people paying for movie tickets online rose over 40 percent in the past year. The number of those who pay with their cellphones more than doubled.
Last year, total box office was around 3-and-half billion US dollars, and nearly 17 percent of purchases were made through online services, for a Chinese record of almost 600 million dollars.
The average ticket in China costs around 6.5 dollars, but the opening-night prices for tickets for a Transformers- or a Godzilla -style tentpole hovers around 26 dollars.
The online ticketing site Maizuo has seen annual revenue increases of 30 percent, compared to an industry-wide increase of 20 percent.
Last year, 72 percent of purchases were made on PCs, but this year around 70 percent of movie ticket sales were on cellphones.
China submits foreign-langauge Oscar pick
China has submitted The Nightingale, the second-ever official French-Chinese co-production, as the surprise candidate for best foreign-language film at the 2015 Oscars.
The movie sees French director Philippe Muyl adapt his 2002 film about the bond-building journey between an old man and a young girl to rural, southwestern China.
Among the other big names mentioned were Jiang Wen's Gone With the Bullets and Coming Home by Zhang Yimou.
Neither made the cut because of various issues, with both Bullets and Wolf Totem not screening in time to make the cutoff deadline.
Last year, Feng Xiaogang's Back to 1942 was submitted, but it failed to make it on to the shortlist of nine movies from which the five Oscar nominees are chosen.
Golden Horse Film Festival
The Golden Horse Film Festival's executive committee has announced its nominees for the 51st Golden Horse Awards, widely regarded as Asia's most prestigious film awards.
The festival is held in Chinese Taipei every year.
The Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, leads the way in terms of nominations with eight.
It has been nominated for best feature film, best director, best leading actor and best leading actress.
Lou Ye's Blind Massage, which picked up the Silver Bear honor in Berlin, got seven Golden Horse nominations. Taiwan sports themed period piece Kano grabbed six.
The Awards Committee has also announced that Jimmy Huang would receive this year's Outstanding Filmmaker of the Year Award.
The jury for the 51st Golden Horse Awards will be presided over by Joan Chen, a two-time best actress award winner, as well Stanley Kwan, Aaron Kwok, Chen Po-Wen, and Stephen Fung.
The awards are part of the Golden Horse Film Festival that starts Nov. 6.
Sewol Ferry Doc at Busan Intl Film Festival
Undoubtedly the Busan International Film Festival's (BIFF) biggest headline-maker this year, the Sewol ferry disaster documentary, The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol, has premiered in a sold-out festival screening.
It was attended by victims' families, top filmmakers, festival-goers and members of the press.
Co-directed by journalist Lee Sang-ho and documentary filmmaker Ahn Hae-ryong, "The Truth" accuses the South Korean government of incompetence and a cover-up for the April 16 ferry disaster that resulted in 304 dead or missing.
The filmmakers hope that their work will help shed light on the truth as the investigation of the highly politicized incident continues.
Several top local and international filmmakers were among the audience.
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of last year's Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing, has said he was struck by the incredibly incompetent rescue mission depicted in the film and was led to question the role of the media in Korea.
Zhang Bichen wins the Voice of China
Zhang Bichen, the 25-year-old singer from Tianjin has become the winner of the "Voice of China 2014".
Both Zhang Bichen and Parhat from Xinjiang entered the final round.
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