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April 08, 2016
Can Legendary Entertainment Bypass China’s Film Quota System?

The Hollywood Reporter – When Chinese real estate and investment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group acquired Thomas Tull’s Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion in January, many thorny questions came to the fore.

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February 02, 2016
Chinese Football Clubs Go On Global Shopping Spree

FINANCIAL TIMES – Chinese soccer clubs have had their biggest-­spending winter ever, poaching talent from the world’s richest leagues with big-­money transfers as they buy into Xi Jinping’s dream for the country to become a heavyweight in world football.

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January 13, 2016
BBC World Service Newshour Interview of CastleHill Partners

BBC WORLD SERVICE – CastleHill Partners is interviewed on BBC World Service’s ‘Newshour’ program, featuring Razia Iqbal. CastleHill’s Managing Partner and CEO talks about China’s burgeoning media and entertainment industries as we enter 2016.

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January 5, 2016
Dalian Wanda of China May Buy Majority Stake in Legendary Entertainment

THE NEW YORK TIMES –  The Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, which already owns the AMC chain of multiplex cinemas, is poised to buy a majority stake in a Hollywood production company that makes blockbuster-style movies.

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January 5, 2016
Dalian Wanda’s acquisition of Legendary Entertainment could spur a flurry of dealmaking by Chinese billionaires, including Alibaba’s Jack Ma

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER –  The frenetic pace of dealmaking between Hollywood and China is showing no signs of abating at the start of 2016.

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December 13, 2015
Jack Ma Got a Better Deal Than Bezos With $266 Million SCMP Deal

THE WASHINGTON POST –  Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. looks to be getting a better deal in its $266 million acquisition of the South China Morning Post and related assets, compared with recent newspaper deals including the purchase by Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos of the Washington Post.

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December 11, 2015
Jack Ma Teams With Arch-Foe Tencent on China, Hollywood Films

BLOOMBERG BUSINESS – Tencent Holdings Ltd., e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma and movie studio Huayi Brothers Media Corp. will pool their assets and create a Hong Konglisted company to develop films and entertainment for China and abroad.

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December 11, 2015
Alibaba agrees to purchase Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post

CHICAGO TRIBUNE – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and other affiliated media assets as the Internet tycoon follows in the footsteps of Jeff Bezos in pursuing the revival of a century-old newspaper.

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December 11, 2015
Alibaba Agrees to Purchase Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post

BLOOMBERG BUSINESS – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and other affiliated media assets as the Internet tycoon follows in the footsteps of Jeff Bezos in pursuing the revival of a century-old newspaper.

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December 7, 2015
China elite fuel country’s football obsession

FINANCIAL TIMES – Angie Quan still recalls the epiphany that occurred the first time she watched Liverpool football club play on television.

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