Our Beijing-based attorney, Mathew Alderson, is Co-Chair of AmCham China’s Media & Entertainment Forum. Each year the Forum puts together a chapter on media and entertainment for the AmCham China White Paper. As part of the research for the 2013 White Paper, Mathew interviewed Nathaniel Davis, a director of Split Works and Splatter, which are Shanghai and Beijing based live music/festival… Continue Reading
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China Movie Co-Productions. They’re Tightening In A Sign Of Things That Have Come
Posted in China Film IndustryOne of the things we are always writing about and always trying to get a handle on is what the attitude is in China towards foreign investment. That attitude is never static for long, always shifting with the economy and sometimes shifting due to other factors such as politics. We are in the midst of… Continue Reading
China Film Co-Productions. Show Me The Money. The Domestic Edition.
Posted in China Film IndustryThis post was co-written by Mathew Alderson (my law firm’s lead China entertainment lawyer) and Tyler Cohen. Tyler is fluent in Chinese and he worked with Mathew on China film matters this past summer before beginning law school at the University of Toronto. Three factors are driving international interest in Sino-foreign movie co-productions: (1) China… Continue Reading
Foreign Service Businesses In China. An AmCham Panel Discussion On August 20, 2012.
Posted in EventsAmCham’s Public Policy and Development Committee is putting on a panel discussion on market access for service providers. This will take place on Monday August 20 from 9:30-11:00. The plan is for the panelists to “briefly present the major market access issues in their sector, followed by a discussion among the panel and audience. After… Continue Reading
Our China Entertainment Lawyer Rocking The Movie Biz
Posted in China Film IndustryOur lead China entertainment lawyer (and regular CLB contributor), Mathew Alderson, was just named by Variety Magazine as one of 50 “Game-Changing Attorneys” who “rock the [entertainment law] biz.” And, hey, we couldn’t be prouder. The list consists of those “attorneys whose recent deals and court battles have changed the shape of entertainment.” Mathew and… Continue Reading
Financing China Movie Co-Productions. Australian Producer Offsets Can Work.
Posted in China Film IndustryIn my previous post, Aussiewood Film Finance And China Co-Productions. Ever The Twain Shall Meet? I explained how a cash rebate equivalent to 40% of feature film production costs is available from the Australian government for films with “significant Australian content” if the producer incurred “qualifying Australian production expenditure” when making the film. This rebate… Continue Reading
Foreign Investment In Chinese Movie Theaters
Posted in China Business, China Film Industry, Legal NewsChina now has the second biggest box office market in the world and the third biggest film production industry in the world. As you would expect, here in China we are seeing an upsurge in foreign interest in the domestic business of movie theaters or cinemas. This interest is driven by the sheer rate of… Continue Reading
When China Rules The World. We’ll See….
Posted in Recommended ReadingOur Beijing-based lawyer, Mathew Alderson, is always reading and referring to deep think books on China. The other day when he told me about Martin Jacques’ When China Rules the World, I suggested he do a review. This is not a new book (it came out at the end of 2009), but because it takes… Continue Reading
China’s Sino-Foreign Film Co-Productions. Show Me The Money.
Posted in China BusinessThis is the third in a series of posts on China’s film industry. The first post was “Sino-Foreign Film Co-Productions in China.” The second was “Making Films in China. You Talkin’ To Me?” Cinemas are being built in China at unprecedented rates and we are constantly hearing of explosive growth of Chinese box office takings…. Continue Reading
Making Films in China. You Talkin’ To Me?
Posted in China Film Industry, Legal NewsA few weeks ago, I did a post, “Sino-Foreign Film Co-Productions in China,” outlining the requirements for doing film co-productions in China. We received the following comment in response to that post: Thank god I ignored all this when I shot Shangdown: The Way of the Spur in Shanghai last year ;) The person who… Continue Reading
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