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...According to consultancy Knight Frank, as of 2018 there were 198,000 ultra high-net-worth individuals in the world whose wealth exceeded $30m. This number is forecast to increase to 241,000 by 2023....
...Later that year it agreed to pay out $187m for a 75 per cent stake in Framestore, the British visual-effects company that worked on blockbuster Hollywood films such as The Dark Knight and The Martian....
...Finally, Evergrande has followed fellow developer Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties into the movie business, acquiring two Beijing-based cinema operators for Rmb595m in October....
...The company noted an impairment provision of Rmb1.1bn for the investment in LeEco, which was viewed as a white knight rescue of the group....
...In January, Sunac emerged as LeEco’s white knight after providing the embattled tech company with a $2.4bn emergency cash infusion in return for stakes in LeEco’s core film and television streaming subsidiaries...
...Not least among them will be salvaging his $6bn investment in Wanda’s struggling theme parks: “Wanda has set an example for Chinese enterprises,” Mr Sun said on Wednesday....
...Transformers: Last Knight opened strongly, raking in $126m in its first three days — the fourth-best opening ever in China....
...A former private equity financier who founded Legendary in 2005, Mr Tull built Legendary into one of Hollywood’s most formidable production houses, helping make blockbusters such as The Dark Knight, Godzilla...
...The rival bankers dispersed after dinner into the torrential rain and began searching for potential white knights for Gemalto....
...$3.5bn for Legendary Entertainment, which has financed blockbuster films such as The Dark Knight....
...China’s Dalian Wanda group — which in July secured a £500m loan to build what will be London’s largest residential skyscraper — spent five times that building the Changbaishan ski resort in 2012....
...Hurun estimates that Mr Wang, China’s richest man and head of the Wanda group, ranks 26th globally....
...Chalk up a win for Wanda Group. The unlisted Chinese conglomerate will pay $3.5bn for Legendary Entertainment, the US media company behind films including Jurassic World and The Dark Knight....
...Wanda, a real estate and leisure conglomerate, bought Legendary Entertainment, the California-based media company behind blockbuster films “The Dark Knight” and "Jurassic World", for $3.5bn, as well as US...
...Unlisted Legendary does not publish profit figures, but studio hits such as Jurassic World and The Dark Knight each grossed more than $1bn worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo....
...In London’s “prime fringe” areas, developers include the Irish group Ballymore, China’s Dalian Wanda, Dubai’s Damac and a Malaysian consortium....
...“Wanda, a huge developer, is looking at investing heavily in Benahavís,” says Lahiri....
...Knight Frank is marketing a six-bedroom chalet with a pool in the resort for €25.5m....
...At Wanda, China’s top commercial developer, unit sales still account for almost 90 per cent of revenue....
...Liam Bailey, global research head at Knight Frank, said the growth had taken place over the past three years....
...From the 1970s, films include Wanda, the tale of a Pennsylvanian housewife who encounters a thief, written and directed by the late Barbara Loden, and Jeanne Dielman by the Belgian documentary and fiction...
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