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scene from this year's Golden Globe nominee Birdman Goncalo Guedes Saint-Germain Jersey , starring Michael Keaton. A scene from Golden Globe nominee, The Theory of Everything. Foxcatcher is another Golden Globe nominee which will soon be available on Chinese video sites. A poster for Map to the Stars. Western movies have become a major selling point for several Chinese video sites.
Chinese video websites increasingly enable audiences in the country to easily view more Western movies sooner after their overseas releases. Han Bingbin reports.
Hollywood moved closer to China in a new way when this year's Golden Globes gala was telecast live for the first time in the country by Hunan Satellite Channel's Hunantv.
Millions of mostly young viewers tuned in－make that logged on－showing the country's love of Western TV and film.
Boyhood became the biggest talking point in China. The film has been shown since August on major Chinese video websites like iQiyi. It has been viewed more than 1.1 million times on Tencent Video.
Nearly 43,600 users of China's largest film-review site Douban rated it 8.6 out of 10.
Shanghai University film studies graduate Liu Xinpei is excited about the proliferation of such online video sites.
The suspense-movie fan, who adores director Danny Boyle, constantly tracks film festivals and reads about award winners and new releases. But most aren't screened in Chinese cinemas Thomas Meunier Saint-Germain Jersey , are expensive to order on DVD from overseas and are difficult to pirate since many illegal download sites have been shut down.
Video sites offer an expanding bank of movies like Boyhood that she can watch for as little as 5 yuan (81 cents). She appreciates the coming-of-age story's incorporation of pop songs to ensure fluid transitions, she says.
Four Golden Globe nominees are available on iQiyi, including The Theory of Everything and Maps to the Stars.
Others, such as Birdman, Foxcatcher and best foreign film-winner Leviathan Angel Di Maria Saint-Germain Jersey , will soon appear on the site.
Indeed, Chinese video sites have long shown Western films. But previously these films had long beforehand been released on DVD. It wasn't until 2012 that the sites, with Tencent Video leading the way, began streaming new releases.
Users can watch these films multiple times within 48 hours for about 5 yuan.
Streaming sites' abundance of foreign films is a game changer, since the number of foreign films that can be screened in cinemas a year is legally limited to 34.
Websites are subjected to less rigorous official scrutiny and box office pressure. This affords for not only more foreign films but more diverse genres Kylian Mbappe Saint-Germain Jersey , such as horror and art-house flicks.
Take James Wan's applauded exorcism-themed production, The Conjuring. The movie was reportedly viewed 900,000 times on Tencent Video and 150,000 times on Youku within just a week in August 2013, when it became available on the Chinese sites shortly after its US release.
Other anticipated productions like The Hangover 3 and best-picture Oscar winner Argo were widely viewed online by Chinese shortly after their US releases.
Chinese streaming sites are reaching out to the US' best production houses.
Tencent is cooperating with Disney companies Marco Verratti Saint-Germain Jersey , including Marvel Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios.
By working with Hollywood's "big six", iQiyi licenses over 2,000 movies a year.
Foreign films account for nearly half of the website's total stock and covers "pretty much every genre the audiences could want", iQiyi's senior vice-president Yang Xianghua says.
International festivals also offer opportunities for Chinese video websites to approach brand new productions, iQiyi CEO Gong Yu tells US entertainment trade magazine Variety.
As the main sponsor of last year's Venice International Film Festival Marquinhos Saint-Germain Jersey , iQiyi was licensed to stream 23 nominations from previous festivals, including six award-winning Italian productions that ran exclusively on the video website.
Gong says the website has established close, long-term relationships in the Asia-Pacific and US, and is now looking for new collaborations in Europe.
The producers of 30 films shown at June's Shanghai International Film Festival authorized the site to stream the movies, including the festival's winner Presnel Kimpembe Saint-Germain Jersey , Greek director Pantelis Voulgaris' Little England. It also streamed 20 films from the Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival.
Movies account for about 60 percent of the content China's online video viewers watch. And 60 percent of users watch films online at least once a week, a 2013 Audforce survey found.
Yang from iQiyi says online cinema holds great potential. Only 30 percent of a film's profits in the US come from the box office. The rest flow from other modes of distribution, such as pay-per-view TV, DVDs and video websites.
China doesn't really have a DVD market or subscription TV channels. Streaming sites fill the void.
In 2014, iQiyi's registered members and revenues increased eightfold.
"Profits are still just enough to cover licensing fees Gianluigi Buffon Saint-Germain Jersey , not to mention labor," Yang says. "But we're still in the process of fostering the market. We're not in a hurry to make more profit. We'll spend what we bring in on buying rights to more films."
The only obstacle may be that, starting this year, the State Administration of Press, Publication Neymar Saint-Germain Jersey , Radio, Film and Television requires online content to be registered and wholly reviewed before it's certificated to be shown.
"Our quota will surely still be much larger than cinemas'," Yang says. "As far as I know, we'll also be allowed to carry content intended to be exclusively for the Internet. I don't think there will be much difference in content choices."
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