The movie trilogy The Hobbit has so far cost nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars to make as the epic continues to set new benchmarks for studio spending.
Growing up in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, animator Jorge Gutierrez waited to see his people appear in Hollywood's animated fare.
Popular cable network seeks to 'reach consumers on their own terms', experts say.
Fox's television studio has been developing an adaptation of the best-selling 1994 Ebola chronicle The Hot Zone for more than a year, the Twenty-First Century Fox Inc-owned company said last week.
As a Tony-winning composer and writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda sees nothing of spending five years writing a show, or months on just a few lines of dialogue.
Fan Songqing is again making headlines nearly two years after he famously proposed all officials in Guangdong province's capital Guangzhou declare their assets and took the lead by disclosing his - this time for his self-published book series on corruption.
When France's left-leaning daily Liberation newspaper devoted a cover and two full pages last month to a book on geography, author Christophe Guilluy understood that his message was reaching a wider audience than his peers in the field.
President Xi Jinping reiterated his love of reading, especially classic novels, at an Oct 15 literature and arts symposium in Beijing.
Although faced with competition from the electronic invasion, printed travel guidebooks are popular in China owing to the boom in tourism, Xing Yi reports.
Printed guides from professional writers and editors might have been the go-to choice for tourists in the past, but crowdsourced electronic guides, powered by the imagination of thousands of avid travelers, are changing all that.
China, the world's second-biggest book market after the United States, has long been a consumer of works from other countries. Now it is making a push to export its own literature abroad, helped by the e-book revolution.
A veteran German publisher shares his enthusiasm for China and his encounters with Deng Xiaoping, Liu Wei reports.
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