China ends ban on 'Treasure'
CFG will release movie in March
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The ban gave local pics "The Warlords" and "Assembly" an unimpeded B.O. run during the lucrative Christmas and Chinese New Year holiday periods.
The three pics will be imported on a revenue-share basis, according to Weng Li, spokesman at CFG, the nation's chief importer of foreign movies.
The government allows only 20 foreign films on a revenue-share basis a year, with around 40 distributed on a flat-fee basis.
As previously announced, New Line's "The Golden Compass" will also be released.
The release of the pics is a positive sign -- there had been fears late last year a ban could be extended well into the year because of heightened trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
CFG denied at the time that a blackout had been imposed and, to prove the point, cleared the year-old Will Smith movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" for a limited release in January. "The Water Horse," which was a British-U.S. co-production, was also widely released this month.
