God of Wealth, when will you finally side with me?” One rainy night, after finishing overtime, the female protagonist Xuanle, ...

ByteDance, owner of popular short-video app TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, has launched a short-drama app in Southeast Asia in an attempt to replicate the genre's success at home. Melolo, ...

In recent years, China has sought to export more of the country's TV and film productions to other markets, and the appetite for it is real. This year's Ne Zha 2, for example, surpassed $2 billion at ...

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Rags-to-riches tales, revenge plots, and plenty of twists—Chinese viewers are loving what they can find in internet “micro-dramas,” the latest big thing in Chinese entertainment of vertically-shot ...

“Cut!” barks the director, and chaos erupts at a film studio in Los Angeles. Actors rush off to change their costumes, while crew members scramble to arrange new props. It is only the second day of ...

Job scams targeting the elderly have recently surfaced within China’s ultrashort drama industry, with some crews reportedly offering up to 5,000 yuan ($700) for older actors to play fathers, among ...

China relaxed its rules on drama production to strengthen content supply, which analysts say would benefit producers and long-video streaming platforms. China's broadcast watchdog plans to ease ...