Skydance and Alibaba Pictures are teaming on "The Flying Tigers", a film about the volunteer group of U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marines that defended China against Japanese forces before America entered World War II
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Chinese entertainment studio Pegasus Media Group and China Film Group are financing the action-filled transcontinental love story, which is written by David Seidler and Jacqueline Feather
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The Chinese company is expected to integrate video offerings into its core e-commerce business much the way Amazon has
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Through a company its owns, ShiFang has a contract which gives it 55% of the net theatrical box office in mainland China from the Hong Kong martial arts film "Ip Man 3"
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China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba has completed its acquisition of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s leading English language newspaper
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Business-themed, reality TV show, "Dragon’s Den," is to be produced in China for broadcaster Shenzhen TV
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Car-themed entertainment show "Trade Up," is set to debut in China later this year. That follows a deal between state-backed China Central Television and Keshet International, the format arm of Israeli TV group Keshet Broadcasting
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Asia Television, the Hong Kong TV channel that was the world’s first Chinese-language TV broadcaster, closed down a few seconds before midnight on Friday April 1
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The country is on track to gross more than $10 billion this year thanks to rapid growth in theaters and success of homegrown hits like "Mermaid"
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Orange Sky Golden Harvest, the pan-Asian cinema operator, remains unable to make a profit in China despite booming box office
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