Strategy+Business – August 2019

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121 game I’d written. It was filled with exactly the same kind of epic stunts and incredible action pieces you’d see at the begi ...

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123 musical acts. At heart, I had not fully recognized the relationship between local and global culture, and how one evolves fr ...

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125 typical of any business startup. On Monday we’d all sign off on the Chinese domestic film strategy, and on Wednesday someone ...

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127 In our early days — from 2005 to about 2010 — most of the scripts we read and the pitches we heard from young filmmakers wer ...

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129 Nevertheless, I still believed that Hollywood’s dominance in the international tentpole category was unassailable. Especiall ...

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131 My Chinese film friends had a shorthand for this attitude. They referred to it as “American cultural imperialism.” And like ...

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133 processors have made possible, on everything from the iPhone in your pocket to the visual effects on the screen at your loca ...

stra tegy +bu sine ss^ is sue^ 96 134 historical drama that I produced in 2017, The Jade Pendant, used CGI to recreate Los Angel ...

135 Resources Global Entertainment & Media Outlook, 2019–2023, PwC, June 2019: Five-year projection of consumer and advertis ...