Jeffrey Chan Ed Meza China Hong Kong Taiwan film Covid-19 pandemic classical Jeffrey Chan Ed Meza China Hong Kong Taiwan

Dearth of Major Releases Creating Opportunities for Catalogue Titles

Reading now: 386
variety.com

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe global COVID-19 lockdown may have struck down this year’s international box office, but it has led to new opportunities for classic movie catalogues and, of course, streamers, according to film distribution execs taking part in a Cannes virtual market conference on Wednesday.While cinemas in mainland China remain shuttered for the foreseeable future, they have stayed open in Taiwan, where the pandemic has been much less severe, and reopened in Hong Kong, where they had been closed for some six weeks.Commenting on the Taiwanese box office, Jeffrey Chan, exec VP of China’s Bona Film Group said the lack of major international titles had created opportunities for older and beloved classic films.A restored edition of.

Read more on variety.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA