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Digital drives prospects for China biz (Including quotes from Orb CEO Peter Shiao)

News | posted on 02/13/12 @ 3:15 am

Source: Variety

With 50% more buyers from mainland China attending the American Film Market this year than last year, independent filmmakers have new avenues for breaking into the restricted Chinese marketplace.China’s Film Bureau, part of the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT), only allows 20 foreign films to unspool on a revenue-share basis, mostly studio tentpoles, which would seem to limit returns for independents.

But Peter Shiao, CEO of Orb Media Group, says new digital platforms have a stronger presence at AFM this year, presenting more distribution options than even a year ago.

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U.S.- CHINA FILM SUMMIT UNITES HOLLYWOOD & CHINA

News | posted on 10/13/11 @ 2:36 am

Los Angeles, CA – Following last year’s successful event, The Asia Society Southern California’s Entertainment & Media/Asia Initiative (EMAsia) will host the 2011 U.S.-China Film Summit on November 1 at the Landmark Theatres in Westwood, Los Angeles. Last year’s inaugural summit drew more than 550 entertainment industry professionals from Hollywood and China, including a special delegation of high-level Chinese filmmakers, executives and policymakers.

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ORB’S CEO TO HOST SHAOLIN SUMMIT IN DOWNTOWN LA WITH ABBOT SHI YONGXIN

News | posted on 05/17/11 @ 11:20 pm

His Holiness the Venerable Abbot Shi Yongxin will be sharing the mysteries of kung fu and healing with the public for the first time ever. This will be called the 1st Shaolin Summit, which will be held in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 21. Peter Shiao, who is the founder and CEO of Orb Media Group, is presenting the 1st Shaolin Summit.

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LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Orb Media Group is co-organizing the 2nd consecutive US-China Film Summit on Nov 1, 2011 in Los Angeles

Announcements | posted on 10/25/11 @ 11:21 pm

Following last year’s successful event, Asia Society Southern California’s Entertainment & Media/Asia Initiative (EMAsia)  and Orb Media Group will host the 2011 U.S.-China Film Summit on November 1 at the Landmark Theatres in Westwood, Los Angeles. Last year’s inaugural summit drew more than 500 entertainment industry professionals from Hollywood and China, including a special delegation of high-level Chinese filmmakers, executives and policymakers.

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Orb @ International Game and Film Lounge & E3 2010

Announcements | posted on 06/12/10 @ 11:16 pm

Orb’s CEO was a guest speaker at the pre-E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) International Game and Film Lounge event where he spoke on a film panel along with other leaders in the field of entertainment media.

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ORB MEDIA GROUP SIGNS EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH 1,500-YEAR-OLD SHAOLIN TEMPLE OF CHINA TO DEVELOP FILM, TV, NEW MEDIA, GAMES AND OTHER CONTENT

Announcements | posted on 04/1/09 @ 11:02 pm

Orb To Extend Influential Brand Widely Recognized as Source for Chan/Zen Buddhism, Major Asian Martial Arts, in Broad Range of Platforms Globally

Los Angeles, CA  – In a groundbreaking partnership, Orb Media Group in Los Angeles  has established an exclusive alliance with the renowned 1,500-year-old Shaolin Temple of China to generate transformative entertainment product across a variety of media platforms in Hollywood – film, television, new media, games and other areas – that will tap into the Shaolin ™ brand familiar to billions of people across the globe. Read More


LATEST BLOGS

Big global walkabout

Blog | posted on 04/10/11 @ 10:41 am

Hello,

It’s been a while since we last met. Just completing a whirlwind tour that brought me from the Middle East (Abu Dhabi), to New York’s Media Advisory Board Meeting of Excel Media, to Boston for the Harvard China Forum, to Australia for Xmedia Lab, and finally to Beijing just before the Beijing International Film Festival.

If I can think of one major impression from this big global walkabout – it is that people all over the world are starting to speak and think the same way. Cross border activities as well as cross industry activities are leading the charge in transformational thought…

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“Unite”

Blog | posted on 03/13/11 @ 10:58 pm

Hello!

Had a very good experience speaking at UCLA (event link) last week on Uniting America and China and one of the most important post modern challenge and opportunity of the 21st Century.

Will try to get everyone video so you can get it directly. But in lieu of that, here is a bullet point version..

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Orb Media Group Events

Blog | posted on 03/4/11 @ 10:58 pm

Hello Friends,

I wanted to share an upcoming keynote speech I have at UCLA’s 2010 Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x30552.xml) this Friday as the kick off for what is shaping up to be a very active two months.

The title of my talk is Uniting America and China as one of the defining challenges and opportunities of our time.

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