Silver screen seeks golden future in China

BEIJING - When Barry Levine, a US movie producer and comic book publisher, planned to expand his business outside the United States, he fixed his eyes on China.

The 62-year-old heads Radical Studios, a California-based company that makes comic books, films, music, and interactive games, and is going to do the same in China, just like many other Hollywood companies that aim to take a bite of the country's growing entertainment pie.

Levine's approach is one he thinks is both safe and progressive - to produce works reinvented from The Water Margin, one of the four Chinese classical novels.