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One of the biggest shows on Netflix in recent years will return for not one, but two more seasons, with the science fiction series now getting an epic production update. After debuting on the streamer back in March last year, 3 Body Problem comes from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss who, alongside Alexander Woo, transformed the Chinese novel series "Remembrance of Earth's Past" by Liu Cixin into an ambitious story that stretches across time and space.

According to a new report from What’s on Netflix, 3 Body Problem Seasons 2 and 3 are all set to begin production “with both upcoming seasons likely set to be filmed back to back, akin to the recent example of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was similarly renewed for a second and third season together.”

Alongside this, the outlet has been privy to documents which reveal that both seasons will...

“Sacrificed Youth” (originally “Qing chun ji”) was the second feature film by Zhang Nuanxin, an important representative of the so-called fourth generation of Chinese filmmakers. She was born in Inner Mongolia in 1940. In 1943, the family moved to Beijing. In 1958 Zhang began studying at the university, which had just been renamed the Beijing Film Academy, and graduated in 1962. This makes her a pioneer in Chinese filmmaking, in which women are notoriously not very well represented in the director’s chair. It was not until a few years later that other important female directors appeared, with Li Shaohong and Ning Ying, both of them much younger.

Zhang Nuanxin also made a name for herself as a film theorist and taught for some time at the film academy before deciding to start her own film career in 1974. After several assistant director roles and a screenplay, she made her first film, “The Drive to Win,...