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Lifestyle Fitness Brand Space Cycle Secures RMB100 Million Series B Round Led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund

Lifestyle Fitness Brand Space Cycle Secures RMB100 Million Series B Round Led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund SAN FRANCISCO, BEIJING and TAIPEI, Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Space Cycle, the leading premium boutique fitness and active lifestyle brand, annou...

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Chinese Film Fund Bets $100M on Hollywood Directors Amid Fraught U.S. Relations The mysterious Chinese firm has signed an impressive roster of veteran Hollywood filmmakers to development pacts, including F Gary Gray, Roland Emmerich and James Wan.

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Chinese investors look to hockey as NHL tries to expand footprint With Beijing preparing to playing host to the 2022 Winter Olympics, both the NHL and the Middle Kingdom are looking to create transpacific scoring opportunities in a game known as ‘soccer on ice’

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Will The Great Wall cement China’s role in the global film industry? Sino-Hollywood’s most expensive co-production of all time seeks to break down barriers between East and West, but the film once again shows that lofty goal may be easier said than done

CastleHill Partners in the news in this in-depth Hollywood Reporter piece on Dalian Wanda and its chairman, Wang Jianlin

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/wanda-chairman-wang-jianlin-plans-invest-billions-hollywood-942854

Wanda Chairman Reveals Ambitious Plan to Invest Billions in "All Six" Hollywood Studios In Beijing with Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, as he weighs in on everything from Nicole Kidman (his "muse") to Disney's Bob Iger and NBCUniversal's Steve Burke ("They are very gifted leaders and also very creative") and opens up about his brutal upbringing.

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Netflix content obligations balloon to $12.3 billion on global expansion

http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-content-obligations-12-3-billion-global-expansion-1201757805/

Netflix Content Obligations Balloon to $12.3 Billion on Global Expansion Netflix keeps pumping more dollars into global licensing and production deals — and the company has increased its bet that continued subscriber growth will keep pace to pay for its long-term conten…

Disney wants to invest in Major League Baseball’s video streaming company

http://recode.net/2016/04/15/disney-espn-mlb-streaming/

Disney wants to invest in Major League Baseball’s video streaming company Owning the tech could help Disney and ESPN launch new digital services.

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Can Wanda's Legendary Entertainment Bypass China's Film Quota System?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/can-legendary-entertainment-bypass-chinas-881765

Can Legendary Entertainment Bypass China's Film Quota System? When Chinese real estate and investment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group acquired Thomas Tull's Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion in January, many thorny questions came to the fore.

Facebook, Amazon, Verizon, others bid for NFL Thursday night game streaming rights

http://recode.net/2016/03/03/facebook-wants-to-pay-for-nfl-streaming-rights-but-apple-doesnt/

Facebook Wants to Pay for NFL Streaming Rights but Apple Doesn’t Amazon and Verizon are in the mix, too. We should get an answer this month.