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Have A Nice Day’ Passes Chinese Censorship with “Slight Adjustments” Liu Jian’s animated noir film ‘Have A Nice Day’ has passed Chinese censorship with “slight adjustments,” according to the film’s producer Yang Cheng. The film will be released before the 2018 Chinese New Year, though a release date for the film is yet to be confirmed. The film premiered at the Berlinale in January, and then was yanked in May from the Annecy International Film Festival in France. It also hauled in three nominations at the 54th Taipei Golden Horse Awards, including the Best Animated Feature, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Music. The U.S. China Film & TV Industry Expo Kicks off in Los Angeles The U.S. China Film & TV Industry (UCFTI) Expo took place on October 30 in Los Angeles with industry experts and executives in attendance. The Expo presents various panel discussions to address important topics such as the reasons behind the cooling of China’s film market in rec...

Cannes’ works-in-progress series grows to cover 10 festivals, 43 productions and multiple on-the-rise events, territories and film types The Cannes Film Market, the world’s biggest – and still growing – film industry meet, is raising the bar once more in industry initiatives, adding four new events to its 5th Goes to Cannes works-in-progress brand: FilMart’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), Lithuania’s Vilnius Intl. Film Festival, New Horizon Polish Days and Greece’s Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival. The Marché du Film also added four more festival showcases last year to the Goes To series. In all, in the space of four years, from 2013’s inaugural single-event BAL Goes to Cannes, this year 10 festivals will showcase key movies at rough-cut, nearly always screened for the first time outside their own pix-in-post strands. HAF also marks Goes to Cannes’ first Asian fest partner. As in 2016, the new additions target some of the world’s fastest g...