The studio plans to release two films by 2018. Its principal investor is Chinese private-equity fund HDQH, which has already invested $100 million in the venture, according to Mr. The Russo brothers first came to China in 2014 to promote “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” They are now setting up Anthem Pictures, a startup studio that will produce Chinese-language films targeting local audiences. “China is an explosive market, so (it’s) absolutely another option for filmmakers,” he said, adding that he and his brother, Anthony Russo, are becoming frequent visitors to Beijing in search of “new voices and new experiences.” Russo.“(There’s) no room in Hollywood unless you plan a superhero film or Star Wars.” is becoming more and more about branded content, the safe play,” said Mr. Joe Russo, the director of Marvel’s “Captain America” franchise, said in a separate interview with China Real Time in Beijing on Sunday that a growing number of Hollywood producers are coming to China for both “economic and artistic reasons.” James Schamus, an award-winning American screenwriter and producer whose credits include Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”(2000), said at the seminar that China is helping to “create a new Hollywood which is going to be paradoxically not as Chinese as we think it is, but more Chinese than we know.” The seminar was attended by a number of big-name Western filmmakers including veteran British producer Iain Smith, whose recent productions include “Mad Max: Fury Road”(2015), and American actress Natalie Portman, who brought her directorial debut “A Tale of Love and Darkness” (2015) to this year’s festival. Yu, whose company recently delisted from the Nasdaq stock market and has won investments from arms of Chinese Internet giants including Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings. “The young Hollywood and Asian directors who can’t get support from big Hollywood studios will come to China because Chinese capital is overflowing,” said Mr.

Bona is a leading Chinese film studio and distributor. “The investors in China’s film market are entrepreneurs with innovative teams, while Hollywood is producing more sequels and lacks innovation,” Yu Dong, CEO of Bona Film Group, said Sunday at a seminar on China-foreign co-productions hosted by the Beijing International Film Festival. Is China going to replace Hollywood as the hub of global filmmaking talent? Some Chinese and Hollywood filmmakers vote yes. He was so effortlessly funny and one of the most fun people to be around.ENLARGE A photo taken on Apshows the scene of the red carpet of the opening ceremony of the 6th Beijing International Film Festival. A painful loss to comedy.īeyond devastated to learn of Jak Knight’s passing. He was winning big, all of it well deserved, so witty and memorable every moment onstage and off. Always loved watching him over the last decade. Whenever I was on a lineup with Jak Knight, I knew it was going to be a wildly funny night. He was an incredibly funny original voice in comedy and a great guy who will be sorely missed. We taped Netflix specials together years ago. Thinking of his friends and family tonight. I remember being on a show with Jak Knight back when I was just starting out – I was so nervous and he was so encouraging and kind. My heart goes out to his family and loved ones. Such a fucking funny, surprising, kind, weird, singular talent. I was lucky enough to spend years writing with and for Jak, and we taped our Netflix sets the same night.

I can’t believe it.Ĭrushed by the passing of Jak Knight.

One of the most talented and hilarious dudes in the game. There will never be anyone quite like you 💔 But you were so incredibly loved and respected. I don’t know what to say about Jak Knight that he wouldn’t make fun of me for. Knight’s stunning death at age 28 was announced earlier today, shocking the Hollywood community who saw him as a star just coming into his own as a writer, producer and stand-up talent. Those are just some of the adjectives being used to describe the relationships between Jak Knight and his many friends and family on social media as they react to his death.

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