China only allows just a few Hollywood movies to be released there every year, so it's a rare sight to have Hollywood A-listers walking a red carpet. However, this isn't a movie premiere or award show, but instead the launch of the Oriental Movie Metropolis - a reported 8.1 billion dollar film studio and entertainment park in China's eastern port city of Qingdao (pron. Ching-dow)
When it opens in 2017, the motion picture city will contain 20 sound stages, a massive convention and exhibition complex, a sprawling shopping mall with an indoor amusement park and seven resort hotels.
It's the brainchild of China's richest man, property developer Wang Jianlin, who has great hopes for Hollywood in China.
(SOUNDBITE) Chairman of Wanda Group, Wang Jianlin (Mandarin), saying:
"If the Western entertainment industry can develop together with the Chinese industry, then there should be a great future. That's why these big Hollywood stars, when invited by the Chinese, are wil
