China continues to leave Hollywood flummoxed. A hit stateside, "Despicable Me 2" has been denied release in China according to distributor Universal Studios.
No specific reason was given as to why China's State Administration for Radio Film and Television denied the film from playing, but it will have a big impact on its total box office revenue. China is currently the world's second largest film market.
So far the 3-D film has grossed $584 million worldwide, $308 million of that has been from overseas markets. Universal has debuted three films shown in China this year without incident including “Oblivion,” “Jurassic Park 3D” and “Les Miserables.” The studio's “Fast & Furious 6” will debut in China on Friday.
It's questionable that "Despicable Me 2's" content would be the reason China would keep the film out of the country. The kiddie pic revolves around a reformed super-villain, voiced by Steve Carell, who teams up with his minions to defeat another super-villain bent on destroying the world. A possible reason for denying the film might simply be the glut of Hollywood content, especially animated films, aluminum foil tape available this summer. China is fairly protective of its national cinema and will keep foreign product out in order to boost the box office of its local film business.
"Despicable Me 2" isn't the only Hollywood film to face trouble in China this year. The Brad Pitt-vehicle "World War Z" was also denied entry into the country. Some have reported that the Chinese government is sensitive to showing films that portray the undead, which caused the zombie flick to be declared dead on arrival.
Renowned American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston took the images between 1895 and 1935, according to the library. More than 1,130 of her black-and-white photographs were reproduced as lantern slides, a small glass transparency designed for projectors, and carefully hand painted and covered with protective film.
“Johnston was one of the first professional, women garden photographers,” house and garden historian Sam Watters said in an interview“Her photographs helped define not only the new American garden, but what was garden photography.”
Watters spent five years digging through libraries across the country and the national archives to track down the name of the homeowners, dates, locations and records for nearly every image in Johnston’s collection. He learned that gardening in the early 1900s was primarily an art form practiced by the elite.
“For the most part, garden owners before 1930 were upper class,” Watters explained. “Their challenges were competing with friends for the most lavish floral displays, employing the best gardeners and understanding new design ideals. Knowing the right plants, flower colors and how to care for gardens were necessary talents.”
To make a garden bloom with a profusion of flowers, Watters said gardeners in the 1900s raised plants in private greenhouses that absorbed massive amounts of water and energy. It is a technique still practiced today.
“Healthy plants and good weather have always been inseparable,” “Though the garden owners of the 1900 era were rich, with experienced gardeners and limitless resources to buy, raise, and care for plants year-round, they faced the same question every gardener faces today – ‘What are the plants that will flourish in my backyard climate?’”
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No specific reason was given as to why China's State Administration for Radio Film and Television denied the film from playing, but it will have a big impact on its total box office revenue. China is currently the world's second largest film market.
So far the 3-D film has grossed $584 million worldwide, $308 million of that has been from overseas markets. Universal has debuted three films shown in China this year without incident including “Oblivion,” “Jurassic Park 3D” and “Les Miserables.” The studio's “Fast & Furious 6” will debut in China on Friday.
It's questionable that "Despicable Me 2's" content would be the reason China would keep the film out of the country. The kiddie pic revolves around a reformed super-villain, voiced by Steve Carell, who teams up with his minions to defeat another super-villain bent on destroying the world. A possible reason for denying the film might simply be the glut of Hollywood content, especially animated films, aluminum foil tape available this summer. China is fairly protective of its national cinema and will keep foreign product out in order to boost the box office of its local film business.
"Despicable Me 2" isn't the only Hollywood film to face trouble in China this year. The Brad Pitt-vehicle "World War Z" was also denied entry into the country. Some have reported that the Chinese government is sensitive to showing films that portray the undead, which caused the zombie flick to be declared dead on arrival.
Renowned American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston took the images between 1895 and 1935, according to the library. More than 1,130 of her black-and-white photographs were reproduced as lantern slides, a small glass transparency designed for projectors, and carefully hand painted and covered with protective film.
“Johnston was one of the first professional, women garden photographers,” house and garden historian Sam Watters said in an interview“Her photographs helped define not only the new American garden, but what was garden photography.”
Watters spent five years digging through libraries across the country and the national archives to track down the name of the homeowners, dates, locations and records for nearly every image in Johnston’s collection. He learned that gardening in the early 1900s was primarily an art form practiced by the elite.
“For the most part, garden owners before 1930 were upper class,” Watters explained. “Their challenges were competing with friends for the most lavish floral displays, employing the best gardeners and understanding new design ideals. Knowing the right plants, flower colors and how to care for gardens were necessary talents.”
To make a garden bloom with a profusion of flowers, Watters said gardeners in the 1900s raised plants in private greenhouses that absorbed massive amounts of water and energy. It is a technique still practiced today.
“Healthy plants and good weather have always been inseparable,” “Though the garden owners of the 1900 era were rich, with experienced gardeners and limitless resources to buy, raise, and care for plants year-round, they faced the same question every gardener faces today – ‘What are the plants that will flourish in my backyard climate?’”
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