Oriental DreamWorks eyes first Chinese film in 2016: Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose studio has produced megahits like...

Oriental DreamWorks eyes first Chinese film in 2016

asiaone.com 18 Feb '12, 7am

Oriental DreamWorks eyes first Chinese film in 2016: Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose studio has produced megahits like...

LOS ANGELES - Oriental DreamWorks, a US-Chinese joint venture announced Friday, hopes to release its first film "with Chinese DNA" made in its Shanghai studio in 2016, the head of DreamWorks Animation said. Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose studio has produced megahits like "Shrek" and the "Kung Fu Panda" movies, announced the tie-up as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping visited Hollywood on the last day of a five-day US visit. The deal makes DreamWorks Animation a heavyweight in a tightly restricted market, but which could grow exponentially. "We've been working on the specifics of this partnership for about a year or so now," Katzenberg told AFP, hours after the DreamWorks tie-up was announced in Los Angeles. "In my conversations with Chinese officials, as well as people in the media sector.... what they most want to achieve is to create their own family-branded entertainment com...

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