From Hollywood to Bollywood, A-listers are shooting blockbusters in "exotic" Poland, a rising star in foreign film production thanks to world-class locations and crews available at a fraction of the price elsewhere in Europe.
Children's cartoons depict death more often than films for adults, and their main characters are more than twice as likely to be killed off, according to research released on Tuesday.
After charming audiences with his warm smile for 14 years, China Central Television host Li Jiaming recently found himself targeted by a group of young netizens unhappy with his style.
A multilingual documentary providing further proof of the Nanjing Massacre premiered on both the Chinese- and foreign-language channels of China Central Television on Dec 13, as the country observed its first National Memorial Day for the victims.
A documentary film series, titled Today in the History of Anti-Japanese War, will be screened worldwide next year to mark the 70th anniversary of China's victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Into the Village Comes the Photographer develops a portrait of a bygone breed of rural photographers in Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, who plied their trade before cameras became ubiquitous.
Author Gao Mantang topped the list of China's richest scriptwriters with earnings estimated at 22.5 million yuan ($3.6 million) in 2014.
A year after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature and was cited for her mastery of the modern short story, her publisher has collected 24 of her stories published over the past two decades.
Her husband is a longtime British diplomat in Her Majesty's Foreign Service. She's in her mid-50s with a passport that sings of embassy postings, starting with China in the early 1980s. If the picture in your mind is a stodgy matron with a stiff upper lip, you haven't met Cherry Denman.
Kirk Douglas is done with writing.
Anation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year: culture.
So a new photo book is the closest fans will ever get to seeing the band again.
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