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    The Business

    The Hollywood-China Connection

    The challenges and rewards of making movies in China.

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    By Kim Masters • Oct 1, 2012 • 28m Listen

    Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis is a US-Chinese co-production and part of a growing trend in Hollywood. We discuss the challenges and rewards of making movies in China.

    Banner image: Summer Qing and Bruce Willis in Looper. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures

    In this episode

    2 stories
    1. 0:00

      The Hollywood News Banter

      Kim Masters and John Horn, film writer for the Los Angeles Times, banter about some of this week’s top Hollywood news stories.

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      6 min
    2. 6:12

      The Hollywood-China Connection

      The new movie Looper stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis. It's due to open simultaneously in the US and China. Not all films get that coveting release plan but this film is different. It's the latest example of a Hollywood trend designed to break into the lucrative Chinese market.

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      23 min
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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    In this episode

    2 stories
    1. 0:006 min

      The Hollywood News Banter

    2. 6:1223 min

      The Hollywood-China Connection

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