Paramount Pictures and Huahua Media have mutually agreed to end their slate financing agreement. That deal would have funded 25% of Paramount film slates up until the end of 2019. The Huahua deal was to be part of a $1 billion one and it was announced at the beginning of this year by late Paramount boss Brad Grey…

Reteaming after 2014’s Transformers: Age Of Extinction, Jiaflix Pictures, China Movie Channel’s 1905 Pictures and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are revving up Speedhunters (working title), as they eye the start of a global franchise. The $100M futuristic action thriller has The Fast And The Furious and xXx helmer Rob Cohen…

It was a $1 billion, three-year deal from two China companies that was supposed to pump money in the Paramount Pictures coffers. The pair at the center of that deal are Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Group, which has been in business with not only Paramount but producers around Hollywood. As reports fly about the lack…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has made its most significant long-term alliance in China since Viacom chief Shari Redstone nixed a 49% stake sale to Dalian Wanda for $4.9 billion last year. The studio has closed deals with Shanghai Film Group Corp and Beijing-based Huahua Media for those companies to fund 25% or more…

In yet another hook-up between Paramount Pictures and Chinese money and marketing muscle, Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Group have made a worldwide investment in Vin Diesel-starrer xXx: Return Of Xander Cage. The news comes on the heels of the film’s early international previews in India, and on the eve of its…

Building on their growing relationship over the past year, China's Huahua Media has come aboard Paramount Pictures' Transformers: The Last Knight as a Chinese partner and investor. According to local reports and a statement released by Huahua, a deal was signed by Paramount's Brad Grey and Huahua's Wang Kefei last…

Paramount Pictures and China’s Huahua Media are teaming again to market a Paramount film in China, announcing Huahua’s deal today to invest in Allied, the Robert Zemeckis World War II romantic thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. The Chinese company will act as the lead China marketing partner and is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is already in bed with Alibaba on the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, and has now added another Chinese partner for the sci-fi film. Fast-growing Huahua Media is making its first global investment in a tentpole with Par and Skydance’s STB. The Chinese studio has a pre-existing relationship…