China's Dalian Wanda courts Hollywood with film subsidy

Dalian Wanda Group will offer a 40 percent rebate to qualifying producers who use its new studio in Qingdao, China, the company announced at an event in Los Angeles where executives called for more collaboration between U.S. and Chinese filmmakers. The incentive will be paid from a five-year, $750 million fund created by Wanda and the local government in Qingdao, officials told a group of Hollywood executives in producers seated in a theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "This is an opportunity for Hollywood, not a competition for Hollywood," Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin said from a podium on stage, speaking through a translator.