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does anyone here have info if theres gonna be a screening of this in mainland china? i am currently on exchange semester here in beijing but no cinema lists this movie.

possibly due to the fact that every movie needs to be approved by the some authority in advance... maybe sony thinks its not worth the work...

but in truth, michael has many, many fans here, no matter what the international media did, chinese people never lost faith in MJ.

if they arent screening this here, i'm gonna have to fly over to hong kong to watch it...this comes in connection with a 150 euro price tag for flight ticket, 50 euro for accomodation (2 nights), 30 euro for eating and maybe other 30 euro for sightseeing. and around 10 euro for the cinema ticket...270 all in all...
 
too expensive! I'm sure you will be able to find a bootleg copy in China fairly easy.
 
I checked the this is it site and the release date for china is oct 30th but when i clicked to find out more it was all in chinese, you probably tried this yourself, anyway 270 is an awful lot but when you think about it it is your last chance to ever see Michael on the big screen.
 
eric i dont care about this movie being on dvd and i dont really would like to buy a bootleg dvd or cd of my idol, i just want to see it on the big screen, nothing else!

gottobethere, please provide a link, because i cant find anything, just mentioning that u found a chinese website but not posting the link doesnt really help me on my search! :(
 
Michael Jackson movie to screen in China

HONG KONG – The Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" has snapped up one of the last of China's 20 annual foreign movie import slots, a Sony Pictures executive said Tuesday.

Chinese censors approved the film before the weeklong National Day holiday that started on Oct. 1, clearing it in time for the global release date of Oct. 28, Li Chow, Sony Pictures Releasing International's general manager for China told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Li said Sony Pictures will give the movie as wide a release as possible because of Jackson's big fan base in China, depending on how many prints they can issue before Oct. 28. China had nearly 4,100 screens at the end of 2008.

"We'll do as many prints as possible. It depends on the labs," Li said.
China only allows 20 major foreign films to be released in the country every year on a revenue-sharing basis. But those Hollywood releases are often immensely popular. China's two most recent all-time box office records were both set by American films. "Transformers: Revenge of the

Fallen" broke the 11-year-old record set by "Titanic" in July by earning 400
million Chinese yuan ($59 million).

Directed by longtime Jackson collaborator Kenny Ortega, "Michael Jackson: This Is It" draws on hundreds of hours of footage as Jackson prepared for a series of London concerts for which he was rehearsing before his death on June 25.

Calls Tuesday to state-run China Film Group, which decides which foreign movies to import, went unanswered.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_en_mo/as_mov_china_michael_jackson_movie
 
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