Suzume

TME Chart 2023 Year-End Charts Officially Unveiled, Featuring Notable Artists including Joker Xue, Zhou Shen and Tia Ray

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Friday, January 26, 2024

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TME Chart, one of the brand of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, officially released the TME Chart 2023 Year-End Charts on January 23rd, featuring three main categories: General Chart, Uni Chart, and Wave Chart.

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  • SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TME Chart, one of the brand of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, officially released the TME Chart 2023 Year-End Charts on January 23rd, featuring three main categories: General Chart, Uni Chart, and Wave Chart.
  • A major overhaul characterized the 2023 Year-End Charts, sponsored by JD Supermarket, to present the TME Chart Year-End Chart special series.
  • Furthermore, TME Chart 2023 Year-End Charts combine the comprehensive results from both the Uni Chart and Wave Chart to select and present the Top 10 Songs and Top 10 Artists of the year.
  • The Top 10 Artists showcase prominent figures such as Zhou Shen, Zhang Bichen, Dao Lang, Joker Xue, and Tia Ray.

The 3rd China Cultural Power Forum was held, Wei Zhang: Building a Film Powerhouse Should Satisfy the Imagination of Young Audiences

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Fei Tan, director of Aollywood Film Critics Association and founder of "Si Wei Du Shu", was the academic moderator in the forum.

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  • Fei Tan, director of Aollywood Film Critics Association and founder of "Si Wei Du Shu", was the academic moderator in the forum.
  • From this point of view, constructing a film powerhouse should also take into account the imagination of Millennial and Gen Z audience of Chinese films.
  • Yuqing Zhu, the founder of ONLINE FILM MARKET and the director of the China Film Foundation Film Investment and Financing Development Special Fund, said that a film powerhouse is an important element of a cultural powerhouse.
  • How to retain young audiences and let young audiences continue to grow with films is a very big core issue of a film powerhouse.

Suzume builds on a long line of Japanese art exploring the impacts of trauma on the individual and the collective

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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Shinkai released his debut animated feature film, The Place Promised in our Early Days, in 2004.

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  • Shinkai released his debut animated feature film, The Place Promised in our Early Days, in 2004.
  • Popularly referred to as the “new Miyazaki”, Shinkai is known for his detailed and realistic scenery.
  • In many ways, Suzume is light-hearted and action-filled, but at its core it is a tale of courage in the face of trauma.

The earthquake in art

    • An archive of oral histories, photographs and real-time tweets about the disaster, named The East Japan Earthquake Archive, includes oral testimonies geomapped onto a Google Earth map.
    • Chinese artist Ai Weiwei completed a Fukushima Art Project in 2015, visiting the nuclear exclusion zone and installing two art installations in response.
    • In this anime, Taki’s hometown Itomori is wiped out by a comet – Shinkai’s reference to the earthquake.

Exploring trauma

    • There is the trauma experienced by the individual, and cultural trauma shared among a wider population.
    • In Suzume, Shinkai tackles individual trauma, but the film also reflects a wider cultural trauma.
    • But she is not just experiencing her own individual trauma.

The art of recovery

    • Although the film alludes to the nuclear accident through contaminated soil trucks in one scene, this is not the main focus.
    • The focus is on the survivors of the earthquake and tsunami, which claimed 15,500 lives and left 450,000 people homeless.
    • She can seek to comfort herself and understand the experience, but she cannot erase the tragic events or their impact.

Moving forward

    • The film uses the journey across Japan, fantastical imagery and evocative comedic music to represent collective and personal healing.
    • Yet the film stands its ground in the large collection of films and literature coming to terms with the memory of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster.
    • Laura Emily Clark has previously received funding from the Japan Foundation, Sydney.

IMAX DELIVERS BEST FIRST QUARTER OF ALL TIME AT THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE WITH $282.2 MILLION

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced it set a new Company record for first quarter box office in 2023 with $282.2 million* — beating its previous best set in 2016 by more than $10 million. The record-breaking results were powered by a potent global mix of releases; the first quarter now stands as IMAX's highest grossing quarter ever for local language releases and also saw the stunning performance of James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water".

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  • NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced it set a new Company record for first quarter box office in 2023 with $282.2 million* — beating its previous best set in 2016 by more than $10 million.
  • "The first quarter is an excellent indicator of the promise we see in 2023 — a year in which we expect to return to our record-breaking levels of box office from 2019," said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX.
  • "Our best-ever box office for the quarter demonstrates that IMAX is wholly unique in its ability to capitalize on both Hollywood and local language box office, and our diversifying content portfolio remains a key, successful pillar of our global growth strategy."
  • IMAX delivered a record $86.3 million in box office for local language films in the first quarter — 31% of the Company's overall global box office for the first three months of the year.