{"id":7749,"date":"2016-09-01T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2016-09-01T00:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:31:04","slug":"russo-bros-invade-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/01\/russo-bros-invade-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Russo Bros. Invade China"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Variety<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russo Brothers in Talks With Huayi Brothers for Partnership<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Dave McNary<\/a><\/p>\n

\"JoeDAVID FISHER\/REX\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/em><\/p>\n

Captain America: Civil War<\/a>,\u201d are in talks for an untitled production partnership with China-based\u00a0Huayi Brothers<\/a>\u00a0Media Corp.<\/p>\n

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The new company would be a production and financing company to develop high-concept material that focuses on storytelling and strong characters. Huayi Brothers will contribute $250 million for operation, overhead, production development and intellectual property acquisition for mainstream global English-language franchise tentpole films to be distributed worldwide plus $100 million in production funding as well.<\/p>\n

Huayi Brothers will have distribution rights in\u00a0Greater China and South East Asia along with the right to exploit theme park construction, development and operation based on projects from the partnership.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaptain America: Civil War\u201d grossed $1.15 billion worldwide this year with $407 million domestically and $190 million in China as the top two territories.<\/p>\n

The Russo Brothers are also producers on STX Entertainment\u2019s \u201c17 Bridges,\u201d Fox\u2019s \u201cSex Castle,\u201d Fox 2000\u2019s \u201cSpace Runner\u201d and MGM\u2019s remake of \u201cThe Thomas Crown Affair.\u201d They are also producing a TV series based on \u201cThe Warriors\u201d as a Paramount Television Production in association with Getaway Productions.<\/p>\n

[ read full article at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Variety Russo Brothers in Talks With Huayi Brothers for Partnership by\u00a0Dave McNary DAVID FISHER\/REX\/SHUTTERSTOCK Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of \u201cCaptain America: Civil War,\u201d are in talks for an untitled production partnership with China-based\u00a0Huayi Brothers\u00a0Media Corp. The new company would be a production and financing company to develop high-concept material that focuses on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}