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FARAH, Afghanistan, March 4 (Xinhua) -- At least eight Afghan civilians were killed and 20 others wounded after a vehicle touched off a roadside bomb in the country's western province of Farah on Friday, a local official said Saturday.


"The gruesome incident took place in Bala Buluk district late Friday when the victims were fleeing their houses following a ground engagement between security forces and Taliban militants," provincial government spokesman Mohammad Nasir Mehri told Xinhua.


The initial information found the blast was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), which was planted by militants along the dusty road, he said, adding the local authorities had conducted a thorough investigation into the incident.


"Further information will be shared after the ongoing probe by provincial authorities and military officials," Mehri noted.


Many of the injured remained in critical condition and among the victims were several women and children.


The province with Farah city as its capital, 695 km west of Kabul, has been the scene of heavy clashes over the past couple of months as Taliban militants have been trying to seize control of the restive province.


The Afghan civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflicts as more than 3,490 civilians were killed and over 7,920 others injured in conflict-related incidents across the country last year, according to figures released by the UN mission in the country.

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The Beijing-based Wanda Group's record-breaking deal in January to buy US film studio Legendary Pictures finally confirmed the long-heralded emergence of the world's second biggest box office as a major player in Tinseltown.


The $3.5 billion agreement is the largest-ever cultural takeover by China, with US studios keen to capitalize on its burgeoning cinema market at a time when Beijing is pushing entertainment as a source of "soft power."


Legendary, the maker of Jurassic World, Godzilla and the latest Batman trilogy Cheap South Carolina Gamecocks Jerseys , has grossed more than $11 billion worldwide since it was founded in 2005, mostly with the kind of big-budget blockbusters popular with Chinese audiences.


"It's a win-win situation... because the China market is really incredibly taking off and Hollywood has a real interest in that," Stanley Rosen, a political science professor at the University of Southern California, told AFP.


It is an arrangement that benefits both sides financially Cheap Texas Longhorns Jerseys , with movies becoming increasingly expensive to produce but the Chinese hungry for Western-made films.


But China, which has yet to make a global hit, is also buying expertise.


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Wanda owner Wang Jianlin, who burst into the international spotlight in 2012 by buying US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion, says the Legendary deal makes his company the highest revenue-generating movie unit in the world.


It also gives future Legendary films direct access to China's booming market, which has become crucial to foreign filmmakers Cheap Usc Trojans Jerseys , with North American ticket sales stagnant.


PricewaterhouseCoopers has projected China's box office to rise from $4.3 billion in 2014 to $8.9 billion in 2019, meaning it would outstrip the US within two years.


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In 2014, 8,035 movie screens - 22 per day - were installed in China and the screen count stood at 31,627 by the end of 2015 Cheap West Virginia Mountaineers Jerseys , according to official sources.


Underlining the shift in power, Chinese box office monitor EntGroup announced that cinemas took a record $1.1 billion in February - a 70 percent year-on-year jump - overtaking the North American monthly revenue for the first time in history.


The main driver of Chinese cinema's phenomenal growth is a steady emergence of a modern consumerist lifestyle among China's burgeoning middle class, expected to account for 75 percent of households within a decade.


Cumulative Chinese investment in the US since 2000 reached $63 billion in 2015, with a $4 billion going to the entertainment industry, according to research firm Rhodium Group.


The trend looks set to accelerate Cheap Wisconsin Badgers Jerseys , with Huayi Brothers planning to produce at least 18 films with LA studio STX Entertainment, and Shanghai-based Fosun International taking a stake in US media company Studio 8.


Both Wanda and tech firm Alibaba have been touted as possible minority investors in Paramount, while Hunan TV has signed a $1.5 billion deal to fund Lionsgate movies and Perfect World Pictures is investing $250 million in Universal's slate over five years.


Beijing has pushed back against an invasion of "foreign culture," however, issuing an edict in 2011 discouraging movies featuring "fantasy" and "time travel" among other "bizarre plots."


President Xi Jinping has instructed artists to abandon "naive sensual amusement" and instead promote "true-to-life images to tell people what they should affirm and praise."


Only 34 foreign films are given cinema releases in China each year under a quota Cheap Alabama Crimson Tide Jerseys , and all are subject to official censorship over content deemed politically sensitive or obscene.


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Co-produced movies can bypass the quota as long as they contain significant Chinese elements, such as characters, plot devices or locations.


But the strategy has backfired at times, most notably with Transformers: Age of Extinction, which was derided for depicting characters drinking the Chinese version of Red Bull in Texas.


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