Quotes of the day

"The issue of these securitization products will help us further expand our network of cinemas. All the money we raise will be put into theaters. Stellar Mega hopes to become China's biggest domestic cinema chain."

Zheng Jichong, chief executive of Beijing-based Stellar Mega International Group Co

"China has become increasingly focused on the US film industry in a bid to crack how to make Hollywood blockbusters with Chinese characteristics. This relationship has a natural complementarity. US studios have the know-how but are cash-strapped and risk averse, while the Chinese have abundant capital and an appetite for risk, which lends itself to film financing."