UCLA brings China Film to Hollywood

“The New York Times” reports on the three week series of summit meetings moderated by Dean Robert Rosen at UCLA between top executives of the Chinese and American entertainment industries.

Attendees were selected by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and arrived under the watchful eye of Jiao Hongfen, a vice chairman of the China Film Group Corporation.

They included at least some whose reach would be envied by HBO. "He's got 800 million viewers," Mr. Rosen said during a final seminar that was open to visitors last Thursday. Mr. Rosen was pointing toward a young man who operates a Chinese movie channel.

According to a program for the seminars released during the final session, Ron Meyer, president of the Universal Studios Group, stopped by on Aug. 27 to give pointers on how to run a movie studio. Later that day, Harry E. Sloan, chief executive of MGM, addressed an even deeper mystery: Where his own perennially reorganized studio "stands today."

Photo: Peter Wintersteller/Berliner Studio/BEImages

(L to R) Zhang Hong (Deputy Director, State Administration of Radio, Film and Television), Gore Verbinski (director, "Pirates of the Caribbean"), Jiao Hongfen (Vice Chairman, China Film Group Corporation), Dean Rosen.

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