This is a Business Hotel in beijing. Numerous people are lined up to audition for roles in movies. Hopefuls include professionals and amateurs, young and old. Hotels hosting auditions like this have been increasing in the past few years and there are six in beijing. Behind this trend is the movie boom heating up in china. In 2015, nationwide Box Office Revenue in china reached 6. 38 billion u. S. Dollars, surging roughly 50 from the previous year. To take advantage of this movement, many producers and investors are jumping into action. This episode gives a behind the scenes look at the ballooning Film Industry in chesapeaina, b focusing on socalled audition hotels. Central beijing is full of office buildings. A hotel opened here 7 years ago. Its name whose name means a house for drifters. The hotel with a total of 358 rooms is always booked due to its convenient location. Its also affordable. The standard twin room costs less than 40 u. S. A night. But thats not the only reason guests
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Oh yes its time to get ready. Indeed. Ive giving you a heads up if you could take your seats. Were going to start our program in a few minutes. Thank you so much. Everyone looks fantastic today. Thank you very much. All right. Hows everybody doing . Yes thank you all for joining us here in beautiful city hall in San Francisco and first off lets give a big round of applause to the bay area Players Group association for the opening music here today. [applause] thank you so much, and were definitely going to celebrate and have a great time. My name is franco finn. Im the warriors emcee for the past 12 seasons . How many warrior fans in the house . I know mayor lee is and proud to say world champions Golden State Warriors and Opening Night last night to the bay area team. We cant wait to bring their team back. Its going to be fantastic in the works, a lot of exciting things. I have been blessed to be part of the a great season and i hope to see you as we
With out there this morning. Area bridges are in the clear. Montgomery county, 422, no delays yet. The drive time is seven minutes both ways between oaks and 202. 202 is quiet. It is foggy out there along route 202. 76 and 95, we are seeing speeds averaging in the mid50s right now. Its great news. This is what 76 looks like. We have the fog in the distance. We pocket the volume starting to build on the eastbound side. Volume is building on the westbound side of 76 near city avenue. If you are taking mass transit, no delays. We continue to follow a developing story. A Delaware County tavern is a total loss after a fire gutted the building overnight. Jesse gary is at the scene in norwood. What is different since we last talked with you. Reporter in the last hour, workers are going to put up a temporary fence around what is left or the remains of the toll house tavern here in norwood to make sure nobody trips or falls on the debris you can see there on the exterior. The major debris colla
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