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Entertainment News | FOCUS May 3, 2019

'Avengers: Endgame' makes Disney invincible in 2019. Then what?

by Tara Lachapelle

As "Avengers: Endgame" smashes box-office records, Walt Disney Co.'s greatest challenge is coming into focus: How will the moviemaking giant outdo itself? The final installment of Marvel's "Avengers" franchise generated some $1.2 billion in global ticket sales and more than $350 million in North America ...

Entertainment News | FOCUS Jun 24, 2018

In cartoon arms race against Japan, Chinese tech giants splash out

by Pei Li, Anita Li and Adam Jourdan

Growing up in the Chinese port city of Dalian in the 1990s, Zhang Hongchang spent hours immersed in Japanese cartoons like "Dragon Ball" and "Naruto." China's home-grown cartoons paled in comparison to the Japanese anime series on television and in comic books that captured the ...