Headlines From China: ‘Lighting Up the Stars’ Wins Weekend, ‘Thor 4’ in Limbo Over Suspected LGBTQ Censorship

China Box Office: ‘Lighting Up the Stars’ Wins Weekend, ‘Thor 4’ in Limbo Over Suspected LGBTQ Censorship

Local drama Lighting Up the Stars easily won a third subsequent weekend at China’s box office, selling $27.8 million worth of tickets for an impressive total of $186.3 million and counting. China’s mucosa regulators haven’t granted Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder a release stage yet — and it’s whence to squint as if they never will. Read increasingly The Hollywood Reporter

‘Return to Dust’: The Chinese Mucosa Pushing Realism to New Extremes

Li Ruijun has spent much of his filmmaking career trying to capture the reality of life in rural China. But in his latest feature, “Return to Dust,” the director has taken his transferral to authenticity to a whole new level. Before shooting began in 2020, Li issued a startling demand to his tint and crew: they would all need to spend the largest part of a year living — and working — in a remote town in the northwestern province of Gansu. Read increasingly Sixth Tone

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