Corporate spat over movie goes public

A corporate feud between two of China's biggest names in the film industry has bubbled to the surface as director Feng Xiaogang posted an open letter to Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda Group, on Friday.

In the letter, the top-selling filmmaker accused Wanda, which owns the country's largest cinema chain, of allocating only 10 percent of its screens for his new release I Am Not Madame Bovary, while other chains gave it 40 percent.

The reason, he said, was executive Ye Ning's job-hopping early this year from Wanda to Huayi, the film company that has produced most of Feng's films. Wanda, with 13 percent of the country's screens, earlier targeted two other Huayi releases for similar treatment, he said in a later interview.