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\n\t\u201cAnatomy of a Fall,\u201d Justine Triet\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or-winning and Oscar-nominated film, is getting a theatrical release in mainland China.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film will open in China on March 29, some two weeks after the Oscars ceremony, where it is in the running for five Academy Awards including best picture, director, actress (for Sandra H\u00fcller), screenplay and editing. \u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d also just won a pair of Golden Globes for foreign-language film and screenplay (for Triet and Arthur Harari); and is vying for seven BAFTAs and 11 Cesar Awards (France\u2019s top film honors). <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d was passed over by France\u2019s Oscar selection committee in favor of \u201cThe Taste of Things,\u201d but embraced by Oscar voters. Its stateside awards campaign has been championed by North American distributor Neon.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe upcoming release in China is supported by indie distribution firm Road Pictures, which was founded in 2014 by Cai Gongming, an international film buff who was an auto industry executive for the first 20 years of his career. Road Pictures has become a leading player among a handful of specialty companies handling foreign indie films aiming at theatrical release in China.<\/p>\n
\n\tBoth Road Pictures and MK2, the film\u2019s French sales agent, confirmed the anticipated release date but declined to explain the technicalities of the film\u2019s importation into China.<\/p>\n
\n\tChina is understood to be currently loosening some of its restrictions on film imports, as well as experimenting with new means of distribution in its vast and segmented market. These moves including allowing companies outside the state sector to be officially credited as distributor and an experiment with a new system currently referred to as \u201cbranch distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOur understanding [of branch distribution] is to give a chance to titles which don\u2019t have blockbuster potential but still have more potential than niche arthouse releases. We believe it\u2019s been tested with a few titles,\u201d a Road Pictures spokesman told Variety<\/em>. \u201cIn any case, we aren\u2019t using this system for \u2018Anatomy of a Fall.\u2019 \u2018Anatomy\u2019 will receive a full nationwide release, like we did with \u2018Capernaum\u2019 and \u2018Shoplifters\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2018 Palme d\u2019Or winner, \u201cShoplifters\u201d earned some $17 million in Chinese theaters. Nadine Labaki\u2019s \u201cCapernaum\u201d earned more than $65 million, making it one of the biggest ever non-English-language hits in China.<\/p>\n \n\tLast year, Road Pictures was also behind the $110 million China haul for Japanese animation \u201cSuzume,\u201d and the $90 million for Toei Animation\u2019s \u201cThe First Slam Dunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAnatomy of a Fall,\u201d Justine Triet\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or-winning and Oscar-nominated film, is getting a theatrical release in mainland China. The film will open in China on March 29, some two weeks after the Oscars ceremony, where it is in the running for five Academy Awards including best picture, director, actress (for Sandra H\u00fcller), screenplay and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatics.eu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}