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.
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.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – The frenetic pace of dealmaking between Hollywood and China is showing no signs of abating at the start of 2016.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FINANCIAL TIMES – Angie Quan still recalls the epiphany that occurred the first time she watched Liverpool football club play on television.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST – Last week I talked about Manchester City’s big plans for China; stage one was unveiled two days later, when they announced that China Media Capital and CITIC were buying 13 per cent of City’s parent company for US$400 million.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST – Last week I talked about Manchester City’s big plans for China; stage one was unveiled two days later, when they announced that China Media Capital and CITIC were buying 13 per cent of City’s parent company for US$400 million.