Challenge To Hollywood: China’s Biggest-Budget Film Ever

A 3-D Chinese “mash-up of ‘Avatar,’ ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ … is the vision of a film-obsessed real estate magnate, Jon Jiang,” and “the boldest effort yet by businessmen here to establish China as a global moviemaking powerhouse, one that can create big-budget English-language spectacles to rival those of Hollywood.”