{"id":233,"date":"2014-01-09T06:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:18:48","slug":"chinese-microfilms-popularity-turns-it-into-feature-length-movie-showing-online-video-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/09\/chinese-microfilms-popularity-turns-it-into-feature-length-movie-showing-online-video-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese microfilm&#8217;s popularity turns it into feature length movie, showing online video power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\u2014A pivotal online microfilm, \u201cOld Boys,\u201d which was watched by tens of millions and helped to establish the genre in China, is being made into a feature-length movie.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers presented a trailer for the film at a news conference Thursday in Beijing and said it would be shown in Chinese cinemas in May.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s genesis as a 43-minute microfilm that netted nearly 70 million views on a video website demonstrates how online films are influencing the traditional film industry.<\/p>\n<p>The original, funny but poignant film is about a wedding host and a barber who reminiscence about their childhood dreams of making it big in music. They decide to team up for a talent show, but their hopes are dashed when they\u2019re rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\u2014A pivotal online microfilm, \u201cOld Boys,\u201d which was watched by tens of millions and helped to establish the genre in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-culture","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}