Tokyo: Japan And China Talk Up Cross-Border Movie Cooperation1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minute“We no longer need Hollywood studios to tell Asian stories and take them to the world. We Chinese and Japanese should be making them ourselves,” said Shan Dongbing, a veteran Chinese producer, now heading the Foye Film unit of leading Chinese conglomerate Fosun.
“These are the world’s number two and three movie markets, we have all the investment and the intellectual property necessary to produce our own blockbusters for the global market. With these two alone we should be able to recoup our budgets and see (sales and revenues from) Europe and the U.S. as our bonus,” said Shan.
He was speaking Wednesday at a seminar on Japanese-Chinese movie industry collaboration, held as part of the Tokyo International Film Festival‘s Japan Content Market.
The present day reality is far more mundane and slow moving than the fiery rhetoric.
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