---- Eine chinesische Kinogänger Spaziergänge hinter einem Plakat des Films, nach der Erde, in einem Kino in Kunshan City, Central China Provinz Hubei, 10. Juli 2013.
--FILE--A Chinese moviegoer walks past a poster of the movie, After Earth, at a cinema in Yichang city, central Chinas Hubei province, 10 July 2013. Hollywood appears to have prevailed in a dispute with Chinas state-owned film distributor that had held up hundreds of millions of dollars in box-office payments due U.S. studios. The Motion Picture Association of America trade group informed its member studios that a standoff over whether a new value-added tax should be taken out of their cut of box-office receipts has been resolved in the American movie industrys favor, according to two people briefed on the situation. China Film Group Corp., a state-owned distributor, attempted to deduct the tax from Hollywood studios share of ticket sales in the country. Under an agreement reached last year by American and Chinese officials, foreign movie producers can collect as much as 25% of ticket sales in China. American studios this year objected to the deduction, arguing that the roughly 2% tax was not their responsibility, and as a result refused to accept any payments from China Film for their productions.
