Jan 12 China’s property-to-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Hollywood movie studio Legendary Entertainment in a deal worth about $3.5 billion. Wanda’s chairman Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man, said at a news conference in Beijing that the Chinese firm was acquiring Legendary Entertainment for both intellectual property reasons and the studio’s movies. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters earlier this month a deal had been agreed. Wanda is already the world’s biggest movie theater operator, controlling AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc, North America’s second-largest cinema chain, and Australian movie theater company Hoyt’s Group. Wanda Cinema Line Corp , the group’s domestically listed firm, is the biggest theatre operator in China. (Reporting by Shu Zhang and Matthew Miller; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)
Source: Reuters.comChina’s Dalian Wanda buys control of U.S. film studio Legendary Entertainment in $3.5 bln deal
Industry: Entertainment 2016-01-12