The scandal over Fan Bingbing’s tax affairs coupled with the Communist Party’s tighter controls on China’s entertainment industry will have a significant impact on the number of locally produced films and television shows in the next one or two years, insiders said.
Tenky Tin Kai-man, the head of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, said the slowdown started about three months ago soon after Fan first disappeared from public view.
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