Headlines From China: Beijing Enlight Media Selected Legacy Entertainment to Design Its ‘Enlight Epicenter’ in China

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China’s largest privately-owned media group, Beijing Enlight Media, has picked Hollywood-based theme entertainment design firm Legacy Entertainment as its primary partner to develop the company’s ambitious studios and theme park project “Enlight Epicenter”. Read More

Shanghai Disney Reopens to Smiles and Social Distancing

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Shanghai Disney Resort welcomed visitors on Monday after more than three months of suspended operations due to the coronavirus pandemic. The theme park said entrance tickets for the first day sold out within minutes when sales resumed Friday but did not disclose the number of expected visitors. Read More

Alibaba Tech and Services to Power Universal’s Beijing Resort

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Alibaba announced on Thursday a partnership with Universal Beijing Resort to help the American theme park conglomerate’s digital operations for its newest theme park scheduled to open in 2021. Read More

Headlines from China: Beijing Culture Buys Land to Build Film Town

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Beijing Culture will build a film town based on films produced by the company. The tourism spot will include shopping areas, hotels, film studios & theatres, theme parks and restaurants. Read More

Headlines from China: Huayi Brothers Movie World Officially Opens in Suzhou

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On July 22, Huayi Brothers' first theme park officially opened in Suzhou, China. The Suzhou theme park took Huayi Brothers six years and 350 million yuan ($51.5 million) to build. Read More

Wanda Quietly Launches Qingdao Movie Metropolis

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On April 28, Wang Jianlin and Wanda formally opened their Qingdao Movie Metropolis, a massive complex featuring 30 film studios, a theme park, shopping mall, luxury hotels, and even a yacht club and international hospital. Read More

TCB in RMB: Disney Attributes Strong EPS Growth to Shanghai Disney

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Disney's impressive quarterly gains per share were because of the Shanghai Disney Resort, which opened in the third quarter of 2016, and also increases at its U.S. theme parks, the media giant said. Read More

Who’s Minding the Store in China?

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It’s one thing to sell knockoff Mickey Mouse backpacks at a mall in Nanchang, where you could clear out in a day if you had to. It’s quite another to build and operate a theme park. Read More

Four Million People Visit Shanghai Disney Resort in First Four Months

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Disney's new Shanghai theme park saw four million visitors pass through its gates in its first four months, and the company's CEO sees the $5.5 billion project approaching break-even in 2017. Read More

Can Hollywood Learn to Embrace Web3?

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Hollywood studios can draw inspiration from the successful integration of these technologies in other industries.  Read More

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