The country’s box-office sales are growing an average of 34 percent a year.

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Fei Li did what tens of millions of other Chinese did: She went to the movies. The 29-year-old finance professional and six family members, from her 91-year-old grandmother to her 6-year-old niece, went to see The Mermaid at the Capital C...

Sid Ganis is a veteran film producer and longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), for which he served four consecutive yearlong terms as president, from 2004-2009. At 76, he has had a long and illustrious career serving as a film executive at major studios including Sony Pictures, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. and Paramount. A...

When Dreamworks Animation's (DWA) animated film Kung Fu Panda 3 karate-chops its way into Chinese theaters on Jan. 29 it will break new ground for Hollywood, becoming the most extensive co-production between U.S. and Chinese media companies.

The film was created both at Dreamworks' California studio and at Oriental Dreamworks, a Shanghai-based stu...

China’s richest man put his money where his mouth is in buying a major American film production house, observers say. Putting it with cinema chain he owns and film studio complex he’s building in Qingdao and you have a vertically integrated film business like Hollywood of old.

Wang Jianlin has long been one of China’s most powerful businessm...