This year was by many measures the best yet for Chinese cinema, although obstacles are expected alongside opportunities in 2015, insiders say.
The billowing publicity surrounding a forthcoming romantic comedy reaffirms the role fans can play in blowing away the box office.
Interstellar continued to lead China's box office, taking 144 million yuan ($23.4 million) in the week ending Nov 30.
John Woo's romantic epic The Crossing: Part 1, set against the backdrop of civil war and the sinking of the Chinese ship Taiping, opened to a warm box-office welcome on Tuesday.
The Admiral: Roaring Currents, a South Korean war epic that's likely to hit Chinese theaters on Dec 12, is an ambitious project aimed at making South Korean movies more appealing to Chinese moviegoers following a decade of slump in performance.
Veteran stage and film actor Ian McKellen says children want to say "hello" to him in the street because he plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, but he knows they know he's not the real thing.
Chinese online giant Tencent Video's recent deal with HBO, to exclusively stream about 10 of the network's TV productions starting next year, has provoked mixed feelings in China's online world, where expectations of watching US TV serials had fallen.
Kathy Griffin will be terrorizing the fashion crowd as the new host of Fashion Police, replacing the late Joan Rivers when the show returns to E! in January.
The boy who refused to grow up: It sounds like men today in this youth-obsessed culture. But nearly a century before his name found its way into pop psychology, Peter Pan was born as the high-flying hero of a play by Scottish writer James M Barrie.
With the rise in popularity of smartphones and tablets, Chinese are reading more on their palms.
In the Chinese world of online literature, "god" and "goddess" are mortals - Chinese readers use these terms for their beloved online writers to show their respect for an ability to create many imaginary worlds for the enjoyment of readers.
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