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China box office will dwarf Hollywood: Ang Lee
Beijing has ambitions to increase the country's "soft power", unleashing a wave of Chinese money into the US film industry
Published Sun, Oct 30, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Los Angeles
TAIWAN-BORN filmmaker Ang Lee predicted on Friday that the Chinese film market was about to explode, not only overtaking but dwarfing the American box office in a matter of years.
The two-time Oscar winner said that executives in the world's second-largest economy used to rely on him as a bridge to Hollywood, but the newly-confident Chinese film industry no longer finds it necessary.
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