Russians turn to China for fresh films
China DailyRussian distributors at the screening of more than 70 movies, which was held in a downtown Beijing cinema between Oct 23 to 25. [Ph As part of the domestic film industry's latest efforts to seek overseas market, a marathon screening of 70 movies was held in downtown Beijing for nine Russian distribution companies. With the event also aiming to import Russian blockbusters to China, Liu says that his team found that only 33 Russian films were released in the Chinese mainland between 2011 and this October. He says that despite Russian movies having a reputation for historical and war themes, they have also shown a rising diversity of genres, exemplified by the sports movie Going Vertical, the highest-grossing Russian movie ever released in China, which took in a box-office haul of 91 million yuan. Olga Kashirina, a delegate from Moscow-based Bubble Studios, says that most Russian audiences know little about Chinese films, except for a few internationally recognized faces such as Hong Kong giants, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat.
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