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Russia’s Gazprom-Media and China’s Shanghai Media Group, two of the biggest media players in the two countries, have inked a pact that covers collaboration on the production and distribution of content across film, TV and digital. Gazprom-Media, fuelled by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, includes the media assets…

With China/UK media day underway in London, BBC Earth Films and Shanghai Media Group Pictures have set the first feature to be produced under the countries’ nascent co-production treaty. With the working title Earth: One Amazing Day, it’s set to be directed by Girl With A Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising helmer Peter…

FremantleMedia is already active in the China market, having licensed such formats as Got Talent, Idol, The X Factor, Take Me Out and Family Feud to local broadcasters. Under a new partnership with giants Shanghai Media Group and China Media Capital, the company will dig in further, creating and developing content…

The Shanghai Media Group, CMC Capital Partners, and advertising giant WPP will join Warner Bros. Entertainment and director Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment in the group that plans to invest in Chinese and global film, TV, and live entertainment opportunities. The goal is to develop projects that “are Chinese…

While Hollywood wonders if a big part of the financing for Jeff Robinov’s new shingle will come from Huayi Brothers Media, others with less luster are tapping China for funding. Producers Robert Simonds and Gigi Pritzker announced in The New York Times they have teamed with backers including TPG Growth and Chinese…

Walt Disney Studios and China entertainment biggie Shanghai Media Group have signed a multi-year partnership agreement to co-develop Disney-branded movies for U.S.-China co-productions, the latest move by Hollywood to get in business with China and its lucrative territory that adds 10 theaters a day to service its 1.3…

The growing Hollywood-China connection is set to get yet another boost when China's vice president unveils a joint venture between DreamWorks Animation and two state-owned Chinese media groups later this week. The Financial Times reports that Xi Jinping will announce a tie-up between DWA, Shanghai Media Group and…