Deadline: Plenty of China-U.S. co-production ventures are trying to get off the ground in the fight to find a foothold in the lucrative Chinese film market, and plenty start with high expectations but no product. Here’s a new outfit that might be bucking that trend: A group of Chinese investors have launched Hero Films, run by chairman Peter Luo, which has a deep pool of resources and has opened offices in Melbourne and Los Angeles. The company plans to finance 3-5 films a year with financial partner China Wit Media and already is ramping up a slate of five pics already in development that it plans to finance, produce and distribute keying on the U.S. and China markets.
Brody should return in another Predator movie. He was awesome in that.