While few foreign films were shown in cinemas, pirated copies sold freely on the streets.
While few foreign films were shown in cinemas, pirated copies were sold freely on the streets.
The surge came after China eased some restrictions on the number of foreign films allowed to be screened.
The theory was that foreign films, which have never made much headway in America, would fill the extra screens.
The Bond film will join an increasing number of foreign films that are being given permission to shoot in India.
Last year, it agreed to allow an additional 14 Imax or 3D films over and above the quota of 20 foreign films.
Nearly all the foreign films that play in China come from Hollywood.
Mr. Panitch says he sometimes uses Fox's vast array of film production resources like relationships with special-effects companies to dress up foreign films.
One of my favorite foreign films is Au Revoir Les Enfants.
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While foreign films accounted for only a quarter of the 303 movies screened in Chinese theaters last year, they took in over half of overall ticket sales.
That is a likelier outcome for British studios than for American ones because Britain's domestic market is much smaller and Americans' appetite for foreign films is limited.
Often, the judgments have to do with ancillary benefits: Athletics enhance fitness and character but take time away from your studies or the festival of foreign films.
Aside from the increase in box-office share allowed for foreign producers, the agreement increased the number of foreign films allowed to play in China and share in box office revenue from 20 to 34.
None of the foreign language films ever won Best Picture (although three films that were partially in foreign languages have won).
Action movies always outsell foreign art films in which people just sit around and talk.
And since the category Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1957, only five foreign language films have received nods for Best Picture.
Currently, there are no cinemas in north and west Wales screening Bollywood films though many off them do screen foreign-language films.
For scores of independent filmmakers, the financial crisis knocked out many traditional sources of support and funding, like financing from hedge funds and foreign presales of films.
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It also called for much shorter statutory delays in the release to video of films and foreign television series to combat pirating.
The Carmel Centre is also home to the Cinematheque, a classy movie theatre that screens Israeli films and independent foreign flicks.
Let me predict that few great silent, foreign or little-known films will be on your show, and that after the balloting, the winner will not be 'Citizen Kane, ' 'Rules of the Game, ' 'Metropolis' or anything by Buster Keaton.
Although Ms. Delpy lives in Los Angeles, her films have either been financed via foreign channels or been part of the American independent scene.
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The show made money with spin-offs, films, books, dolls and foreign rights, bringing much-needed cash into the Public Broadcasting Service whose subsidy is always under threat from Congress.
Some bigger-budget films will be looking to sell their foreign rights.
Hollywood and other foreign movie centers will be allowed to distribute 40 films a year immediately after accession, a number that will grow to 50 three years later.
Although China now allows 34 foreign movies into the country per year instead of just 20, American films are still often at a disadvantage.
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Films made as co-productions with Chinese companies aren't considered foreign there, so they can skirt the state quota of 20 imports per year.
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It also said there would have to be a prominent warning on films and programmes that have already been produced that contain images of actors smoking - whether Indian or foreign.
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