- Title: Stars of Asian cinema honored in Los Angeles
- Date: 5th November 2016
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 3, 2016) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** CHINESE FILM DIRECTOR HUO JIANQI, CINEMATOGRAPHER SUN MING AND PRODUCTION DESIGNER WU MING POSING FOR PHOTOS ON RED CARPET ACTRESS PAULA PATTON POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF GUESTS ON RED CARPET HOST AND ACTOR ROB SCHNEIDER TALKING TO REPORTER IN RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) HOST AND ACTOR, ROB SCHNEIDER, SAYING: "They understand business and they wouldn't be there unless there was a market for it, but you have to buy good content and so, that's going to be the real shot in the arm for Hollywood, you have to be international, that's good." CHINESE ACTRESS LISA LU POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH GUESTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHINESE-AMERICAN ACTRESS, LISA LU, SAYING: "It's going to be more important in the future because the collaboration between Chinese and American films it's just begun now." PRODUCTION DESIGNER WU MING POSING FOR PHOTOS VETERAN ACTRESS WANG JI TALKING TO REPORTER GUESTS IN ARRIVALS AREA ACTOR AND DIRECTOR ROBERT TOWNSEND TALKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR AND DIRECTOR ROBERT TOWNSEND, SAYING: "I think to see this wonderful investment, I think it's great because as a filmmaker I'd love to do a project in China, I think as an artist you want to touch as many different territories and create as much as possible and this becomes another, you know, option for filmmakers across the world, so I think it's really good." 13, WIDE OF RED CARPET BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER WINNER SUN MING POSING FOR PHOTOS (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER WINNER, SUN MING, SAYING: ++APPROXIMATE TRANSLATION++ "Film does not belong to any single country, it has a universal sense. I believe that future Chinese films will get more attention in the world and I believe it has a very bright future for Chinese movies."
- Embargoed: 20th November 2016 00:36
- Keywords: Golden Screen Awards Rob Schneider Paula Patton Wang Ji Lisa Lu Huo Jianqi
- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA0015712MO5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Some of Asia's top film talent were in Los Angeles on Thursday (November 3) for the inaugural Golden Screen Awards, celebrating Chinese-international movie collaborations.
Among those recognized at the awards on Thursday were veteran Chinese actresses Wangi Ji and Lisa Lu.
Lu said the importance of the relationship between Hollywood and the China would only strengthen in the future.
"It's going to be more important in the future because the collaboration between Chinese and American films it's just begun now," she said.
Ceremony host Rob Schneider welcomed Chinese investment in Hollywood.
"They understand business and they wouldn't be there unless there was a market for it, but you have to buy good content and so, that's going to be the real shot in the arm for Hollywood, you have to be international, that's good," he said.
The Golden Screen Awards come as China extended its push into the Hollywood film industry on Friday with a $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions by China's Dalian Wanda conglomerate.
The takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, extends the Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate's buying spree in Hollywood which is owned by China's richest man.
SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - China's Dalian Wanda has agreed a $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, extending the Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate's buying spree in Hollywood.
Wanda, run by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, said in a statement on Friday it would buy all of Dick Clark Productions, an iconic name in U.S. entertainment that also produces the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Billboard Music Awards.
Dick Clark's owner, media investment holding company Eldridge Industries, had said it was in talks with Wanda in September. Founded by TV presenter Dick Clark, host of the "American Bandstand" pop music TV show from 1957 to 1987, the eponymous firm went public in 1986 before being taken private 16 years later.
Wanda's deal is its latest move in a cruise into Hollywood. It already owns Legendary Entertainment, co-producer of film hits such as "Jurassic World", and U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. It also has business ties with Sony Pictures and Sony Corp.'s film unit in China.
The drive has raised concern among some U.S. lawmakers about China's influence in Hollywood and the impact it might have on media in the United States. Wang has said his motivation comes from a "business perspective" and not a political one.
Wanda said in its statement that the deal marked its "first step" into television content to sit alongside its investments in theme parks, film production and sport. It added it would keep Dick Clark's current management team after the deal.
In August, Wang told Reuters he expected to seal two billion-dollar deals in the U.S. this year. He aims to bring Hollywood technology and muscle to China, and has expressed interest in the so-called "big six" Hollywood studios.
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WHAT: The Golden Screen Awards, in partnership with the Motion Picture Association (MPA), The Hollywood Reporter and China Film Co-Production Corporation, honors production companies, films, directors, actors, and producers for excellence in Chinese-International co-production films.
WHO: The ceremony is hosted by Rob Schneider, star of the Netflix Original Series Real Rob, with U.S. and Chinese actors making guest appearances as presenters, including Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Warcraft), Travis Fimmel(Warcraft), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) and Academy Award winner, Louis Gossett, Jr. (BET's Book of Negroes).
Other expected VIP guests from China include the Deputy Director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), China; Cultural Counselor of Consulate-General of China in Los Angeles; Chairman and CEO of CITVC (a main subsidiary of CCTV); and the President and CEO of SMG and the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group Co., Ltd.
Nine films have been nominated across ten film categories including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Animation, and Best Production Design. Recognized films include: Mountain Cry, Skiptrace, Da Tang Xuan Zang, Night Peacock, Three, Book of Love, Kung Fu Panda 3, Qing Wa Zong Dong Yuan, and Happiness
Additionally, Bad Moms, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Independence Day: Resurgence, Star Trek Beyond and Warcraft will receive honorary awards for collaborative work across both the U.S. and China.
WHEN: Thursday, November 3, 2016
4:30 PM Media check-in
6:00-8:00 PM Red Carpet Arrivals
8:00-10:00 PM Award Presentations
WHERE: AEG Live Event Deck
Downtown Los Angeles
ABOUT GOLDEN SCREEN AWARDS:
The Golden Screen Awards is presented by the U.S. China Film and Television Industry (UCFTI) Association, and Executive Produced by Spike Jones, Jr. and SJ2 Entertainment. For more information on the Golden Screen Awards and its nominees, please visit goldenscreenawards.com.
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DICK CLARK-M&A/WANDA (REPEAT, UPDATE 1, PIX)
RPT-UPDATE 1-China's Wanda extends Hollywood push with Dick Clark deal
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* Dalian Wanda to buy Dick Clark Productions for $1 bln
* Wanda says purchase is first step into TV content
* Dick Clark behind Golden Globes, Miss America
SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - China's Dalian Wanda has agreed a $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, extending the Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate's buying spree in Hollywood.
Wanda, run by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, said in a statement on Friday it would buy all of Dick Clark Productions, an iconic name in U.S. entertainment that also produces the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Billboard Music Awards.
Dick Clark's owner, media investment holding company Eldridge Industries, had said it was in talks with Wanda in September. Founded by TV presenter Dick Clark, host of the "American Bandstand" pop music TV show from 1957 to 1987, the eponymous firm went public in 1986 before being taken private 16 years later.
Wanda's deal is its latest move in a cruise into Hollywood. It already owns Legendary Entertainment, co-producer of film hits such as "Jurassic World", and U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. It also has business ties with Sony Pictures and Sony Corp.'s film unit in China.
The drive has raised concern among some U.S. lawmakers about China's influence in Hollywood and the impact it might have on media in the United States. Wang has said his motivation comes from a "business perspective" and not a political one.
Wanda said in its statement that the deal marked its "first step" into television content to sit alongside its investments in theme parks, film production and sport. It added it would keep Dick Clark's current management team after the deal.
In August, Wang told Reuters he expected to seal two billion-dollar deals in the U.S. this year. He aims to bring Hollywood technology and muscle to China, and has expressed interest in the so-called "big six" Hollywood studios.
Wang is now trying to attract Hollywood film makers with subsidies to a new production studio in China's eastern city of Qingdao. Meanwhile U.S. film producers are also looking for a way into China's fast-growing cinema market.
Wang predicts the Chinese box office would match the biggest market - the United States and Canada - by 2018, and grow by about 15 percent annually for the next 10 years.
Reuters first reported in June that Eldridge Industries, the U.S. owner of magazines Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter as well as Dick Clark Productions, had hired investment banks to carry out a review of its media holdings.
An Eldridge representative was not immediately available for comment outside regular U.S. business hours. (Reporting by Adam Jourdan in SHANGHAI and Liana Baker in SAN FRANSISCO; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell and Christopher Cushing) ((adam.jourdan@thomsonreuters.com; +86 21 6104 1778; Reuters Messaging: adam.jourdan.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) Keywords: DICK CLARK M&A/WANDA - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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