Hollywood is the epicenter of the American film industry.
好莱坞是美国电影业的中心。
She landed her first leading role in a
Hollywood blockbuster.
她在一部好莱坞大片中获得了她的第一个主演角色。
The Walk of Fame in
Hollywood honors celebrities from various entertainment fields.
好莱坞星光大道表彰了来自各种娱乐领域的名人。
Many aspiring actors flock to
Hollywood with dreams of stardom.
许多怀揣明星梦的演员涌向好莱坞。
The Oscar ceremony, held annually in
Hollywood, is the most prestigious event in the film industry.
每年在好莱坞举行的奥斯卡颁奖典礼是电影界最盛大的活动。
Hollywood's Golden Age refers to the period of classic cinema from the 1920s to the 1950s.
好莱坞的黄金时代指的是从20世纪20年代到50年代的经典电影时期。
The
Hollywood sign, originally erected in 1923, has become an iconic symbol of Tinseltown.
好莱坞标志，最初建于1923年，已成为这个"光影之城"的标志性象征。
Studios in
Hollywood often hold open auditions for new talent.
好莱坞的制片厂经常举行公开试镜来发掘新人才。
Many famous directors have made their mark on
Hollywood with groundbreaking films.
许多著名导演凭借开创性的电影在好莱坞留下了他们的印记。
The
Hollywood Walk of Fame not only features stars, but also includes icons from television, music, and theater.
好莱坞星光大道不仅有电影明星，还包括电视、音乐和戏剧界的杰出人物。
According to Xu, Hengdian, in addition to its Hengdian World Studios — China's Hollywood — is the "magnetic capital of the world" as well as the "medical valley of Jiangnan" south of Yangtze River.
在许看来，横店除了拥有“中国好莱坞”横店影视城之外，还是“世界的磁都”和长江以南的“江南药谷”。
"We look forward to building on the momentum as we capitalize on a strong pipeline of blockbusters, both Hollywood and local language, for the rest of the year and into 2022.
我们期待着利用这股势头，继续推进我们在今年剩余时间和2022年的好莱坞大片以及本土语言影片的强大片单，以此来进一步发展我们的业务。
Located right at the entrance to the Universal Studios Beijing theme park, The Universal Studios Grand Hotel, as the world's first Universal-themed hotel, will immerse guests in Hollywood's Golden Age style.
位于北京环球影城主题公园的入口处，环球影城大酒店作为全球首家以环球为主题的酒店，将让客人沉浸在好莱坞黄金时代的风格中。
The seven lands are Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness, Transformers Metrobase, Minion Land, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Jurassic World Isla Nublar, Hollywood and Waterworld.
这七个土地分别是：功夫熊猫乐园、变形金刚地铁基地、小黄人乐园、哈利波特的魔法世界、侏罗纪世界努布拉岛、好莱坞和水世界。
Universal Beijing Resort earlier announced that the Beijing theme park will have seven themed areas: Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness, Transformers, Metrobase, Minion Land, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Jurassic World Isla Nublar, Hollywood and WaterWorld.
The Chinese company also inked a strategic partnership with leading Hollywood talent and literary management company Settebello Entertainment late last year, to help Western celebrities and influencers build a presence in the Chinese market.
"China is the world's largest nation with an insatiable demand for Hollywood entertainers.
VideoUp has opened up an unparalleled portal to the East, and I am beyond thrilled to help Hollywood's leading artists walk through it," said Byron Ashley, founder of Settebello Entertainment.
"The Oriental Movie Metropolis, China's answer to Hollywood, has about 40 of the world's top-class sound stages, including the world's largest sound stage at about 10,000 square meters, and the world's only underwater sound stage.
Leading US audio tech company Dolby Laboratories expects further expansion in China, as more Hollywood and local films created with Dolby technologies are released in China this holiday season.
In 1999, Hei set up a shop on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road, Andy Hei Ltd. , specialising in Chinese antique furniture, and used it as a way to introduce new platforms for the Asian art market.
Quanjude said it would like to showcase some stylish features along with its traditional cooking techniques at the Hollywood theme park in the capital.
"I am not saying that I am from Hollywood and you must listen to me.
Wanda also owns Hollywood producer Legendary Entertainment but had scrapped a $1 billion deal to buy television producer Dick Clark Productions last year.
The themes at the park now include Transformers, Minions, Kung Fu Panda, Harry Potter, Water World, Back to the Jurassic Period, and Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sitting in the stall surrounded by colorful gummies on display, Scarlett Hong, executive director of Fujian Hollywood Foods Industrial Co Ltd under China Candy Holdings Limited, displayed their new product: 3D gummy.
Tencent has spent lavishly in acquiring and co-funding Hollywood blockbusters, including "Warcraft," "Kong: Skull Island," and "Wonder Woman," as well as in creating original content.
"Asia shows a great demand for entertainment insurance due to the growing number of live events and growing interest of Chinese investors in Hollywood," said Michael Furtschegger, who leads global entertainment business of AGCS.
In 2017, China invested more than $5 billion in Hollywood.
It was a hot day in Qingdao in September 2013, but the Hollywood A-listers still turned out.
Wang Jianlin, the billionaire chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, spoke about the "Hollywood East" facility, which will include a 10,000-square-meter film studio.
The women's #metoo movement and Time's Up campaigns also emerged, as more accusations of sexual harassment by men in Hollywood, entertainment and the media flowed forth.
I also believe with good productions, those legends won't lose ground to Hollywood franchises.
Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd is buying a stake in Skydance Media LLC, the Hollywood production company behind Terminator, as it expands its entertainment portfolio to draw a larger audience from home and abroad.
With Beijing pushing along with the Belt and Road Initiative, ties between the Chinese film industry and Hollywood are now taking the form of using Hollywood's expertise via collaboration in making Chinese blockbuster action films for the local market, said Stanley Rosen, a professor specializing in Chinese affairs at the University of Southern California.
Tencent partners Skydance for entertainment market expansionInternet conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd is buying a stake in Skydance Media LLC, the Hollywood production company behind Terminator, as it expands its entertainment portfolio to draw a larger audience from home and abroad.
It will also work on "Zombie Brother," the company's first international live action film, with Hollywood producers, directors and screenwriters by adapting a hit cartoon adventure story about zombies.
Another Tencent Pictures project, called "20,000 Miles," will feature Chinese director Lu Chuan and a Hollywood crew to present a science fiction story about time travel set in China.
[Photo provided to China Daily]Cinema operator HG Entertainment Co isxa0one step closer to an initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai, a move which will make it the first listed entertainment branch of its parent company Hengdian Group, owner of a movie production base closest to Chinese version of Hollywood.
Gaw Capital Partners USA has more than $2.7 billion in assets under management－including Los Angeles' Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and one of Gaw's investment funds recently bought the Marriott City Center in Oakland, California.
In 2016, Disney scored a third straight year of the most profitable studio in Hollywood with $2.5 billion in profit.
2016年，迪士尼连续第三年成为好莱坞最赚钱的工作室，盈利达25亿美元。
Zootopia, in particular, is cited as an example of China embracing Hollywood after it became Disney's most successful animation ever in the world's second largest box office, scooping $236 million.
This October 2, 2012 file photo shows the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, California.
[Photo/VCG]China's link with Hollywood is about to get even stronger.
So with the growth in the Chinese market and the global nature of our business, it's a perfect match," Kathryn Arnold, a Hollywood movie industry expert said.
China has been buying up Hollywood studios for years.
Hollywood studios have just negotiated a better deal to get their films shown in Chinese theaters.
One has Victorian-style elegance, and the other is marked by Hollywood art deco architecture.
"My 'joy combo' of dinner, beer, and movies have finally made its comeback," said Zhang Hongliang, a Beijing resident who joined his friends for the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water at a cinema in Haidian district.
Influenced by Hollywood movies he had watched on television, Koirala spent much of his younger years dreaming of traveling to the United States, where he would live a different life, one away from the countryside, field crops and farm animals.
Two highly anticipated Hollywood tentpoles — Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — were released in early June, but their performances were lackluster.
The rush to watch director Greta Gerwig's summer splash Barbie — the first movie to bring the Mattel doll to life — shows that thought-provoking and well-crafted Hollywood movies can captivate the evolving taste of Chinese audiences, industry observers said.
He added that big-budget Hollywood movies, once highly popular among the local audience, have now been overshadowed by Chinese movies.
Yuan Yun'er, a Beijing-based film critic, said the changing preferences of Chinese audiences can be attributed to the staleness of the common Hollywood formula of stunning action sequences and a plotline where the hero saves the day.
While the charm of Hollywood is diminishing, the Chinese film industry has made remarkable progress in terms of budget and special effects, leading to visually captivating cinema that resonate better with local audiences due to the familiar cultural elements, Yuan explained.
The complex, known as "China's Hollywood" and the world's largest film and TV center, is in Dongyang's Hengdian township, Zhejiang province.
More than 6,000 actors, actresses and crew members celebrated Chinese New Year at "China's Hollywood", and the festivities were the most boisterous ones in over three years, Liu said.
The park features seven themed "lands": Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness; Transformers: Metrobase; Minion Land; The Wizarding World of Harry Potter; Jurassic World Isla Nublar; Water-World; and Hollywood.
该乐园设有七大主题“区域”：功夫熊猫盖世之地；变形金刚： Metrobase；小黄人乐园；哈利·波特的魔法世界；侏罗纪世界努布拉岛；水世界；以及好莱坞区。
- Xu Xiao's busy day started when all the 80-plus horses on his horse farm were booked out for movie and television shoots at Hengdian World Studios, known as the "Chinese Hollywood," in East China's Zhejiang Province.
徐晓忙碌的一天从他的马场里80多匹马被全部预订出去开始，这些马被用于中国东部浙江省横店影视城——被誉为“中国好莱坞”的电影和电视拍摄。
Movie fans are expected to be immersed in the upcoming seven highly themed lands: Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness, Transformers: Metrobase, Minion Land, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Jurassic World Isla Nublar, Hollywood and WaterWorld.
Hollywood blockbusters lost a lot of its glamour as well as percentage share in the Chinese market as China-made productions grew from strength to strength last year.
There were only two Hollywood movies that made it to the top 10 earnings list in 2019.
Over the last two decades, as China's film industry grows to its current prodigious size, Chinese filmmakers have been flooding top US film schools like USC, UCLA, NYU and AFI to learn Hollywood's secret sauce that has enabled Tinseltown to dominate the motion picture industry for the past 100 years.
But, to date, only around 7 percent of Chinese box office revenues come from overseas sales, in contrast to Hollywood films, whose foreign revenues have risen from 30 percent of sales 20 years ago to nearly 70 percent of box office revenues today.
但是，迄今为止，中国电影票房收入中只有大约7%来自海外销售，相比之下，好莱坞电影的海外收入在20年前占总票房的30%，如今已增长到接近70%。
"The difference in stories and storytelling styles is significant, because Chinese films usually have a different format and pace than Hollywood's more popular three-act linear format, and stories unique to China are unfamiliar in the West.
“故事和叙事风格的差异是显著的，因为中国电影通常采用不同于好莱坞流行的三幕线性结构的格式，而在中国特有的故事在西方较为陌生。”
Hollywood producer Jeff Most told Xinhua, "China has thousands of years of legends, folk tales and myths that the West knows nothing about and doesn't yet identify with the same way.
好莱坞制片人杰夫·莫斯特向新华社表示：“中国拥有数千年的传奇故事、民间传说和神话，这些都是西方所不了解的，西方尚未像对中国文化那样对其产生认同感。”
"While joint productions with Hollywood and other global players will help the Chinese film industry better understand global audience tastes, investment alone is not the answer," he noted.
Some Hollywood insiders believe, with the rise of China's domestic market, for many Chinese filmmakers today, there is less incentive to gamble millions on an attempt to try to decipher the complexities of an unfamiliar and poorly-understood international market when their own familiar and well-understood domestic market can recoup hundreds of millions of dollars for a single hit film in China.
It is common for Hollywood filmmakers to apply for bank loans by cooperating with insurance and guarantee services providers, he said.
"We saw strong demand (for technologies) in (shooting and screening) blockbusters, not only those (from) Hollywood but films in Chinese language, which are increasingly welcomed by Chinese audiences.
LOS ANGELES - Digital Hollywood (DH) wrapped its famed 3-day conference on Friday at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, including a special panel on film production in China.
"This is a 'must attend' event if you want stay current on what's new in tech and entertainment," Marc Karzen, Founder/CEO of RelishMix, a leading entertainment industry data analysis company that works with the Hollywood Big 6 studios, told XinhuaDH hosted a special China panel this year called "The China Entertainment Industry Roundtable: A Discussion with China Experts - Investment, Joint Ventures, and Productions.
"So it's important to have a China panel at a mainstream Hollywood Conference for worldwide participants to get firsthand information about Film & TV development, production and distribution there," she said.
Topics discussed during the conference also included Internet Influencers, eSports, VC Financing, Women on the Creative Edge and Women in Finance, Hollywood Masterclass on Film Production, Big Data Branding, AR/XR, OTT Programming, Podcasting, STEM, and more.
"We saw strong demand in blockbusters, not only those (from) Hollywood but also Chinese-language films, which are increasingly welcomed by Chinese audiences.
“我们看到，在大片方面有强劲的需求，这不仅包括好莱坞大片，而且也包括中国本土语言的电影，它们越来越受到中国观众的欢迎。”
"Building on the momentum we saw during Chinese New Year and strong demand for Hollywood and local language blockbusters alike, IMAX China continues to generate solid growth at the box office and across our theater network in 2019," he said.
Although Hollywood films are popular around the world, they can hardly shake the status of domestically produced films in the Chinese market, according to a China Film Association report.
Only six movies reaped more than 1 billion yuan ($144.4 million) from the box office during the past five months, including the domestic films Wandering Earth and Crazy Alien, as well as Hollywood blockbusters Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel.
LOS ANGELES - As China's growing film industry is closing in on the world's top box office, it is also experiencing upheavals and pains, Hollywood film industry insiders said.
China has worked hard to analyze and pattern its developing industry after Hollywood's globally successful 100-year-old system.
Casting heavyweight talent in a film is one of the basic tenets of successful Hollywood production.
"Star salaries in China are way out of proportion," Xian Li, a prominent Hollywood studio executive, said.
"We are all looking for new and better stories," he said, adding that his company, which was founded three years ago, has "tried to improve its contents and quality by collaborating with Hollywood" in the past.
"The solution is being used in some Hollywood studios and some news and TV stations throughout the world," Huang said.
"It's like Hollywood for actors if you're in the auto industry," said Alberts, adding that when it comes to automotive mobility, the auto show is just the place to be.
Since then, it has produced visual effects for hundreds of Hollywood movies, winning several Academy Awards.
Since then, it has produced visual effects for hundreds of Hollywood movies, which won the company several Academy Awards or Oscars.
The company is said to have provided insurance to about 50 percent of Hollywood blockbusters such as the James Bond movies and the Fast and Furious series of films, to ensure their production is completed without a hitch despite possible emergencies, according to Allianz.
"Asia shows a great demand for entertainment insurance due to the growing number of live events as well as a growing interest of Chinese investors in Hollywood," said Michael Furtschegger, who leads the global entertainment business of Allianz.