co-productions

Increasingly, Hengdian is featured in Hollywood co-productions hoping to cash in on both U.S. and Chinese markets, such as "Mummy 3" and "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan."

If You Build It, They Will Come: Chinese Town Gets Hollywood Makeover Cathy Yan 2011

With Prime Suspect US on NBC this autumn, Julian Fellowes-penned Titanic sold to ABC, Jeremy Kyle being syndicated in America and Lygo "confident" Red or Black will make it on to a US network, he hopes to do more business there, particularly profitable drama co-productions.

'There's an absolute will that it's better for ITV if we make the stuff ourselves' 2011

Some of the network's shows—including "Boss," which will make its premiere in October with Kelsey Grammer as a fictional Chicago mayor—are licensed from other companies or are co-productions.

BBC Gives Lift to Starz Lauren A. E. Schuker 2011

As co-productions, films produced by the venture wouldn't be subject to the strict quota rules that currently limit the number of non-Chinese films allowed into the country.

Chinese Fund to Back Films in U.S., China Michelle Kung 2012

Beijing's tight import controls—currently 20 foreign films a year, though that may loosen in the near future—are forcing more producers from Hong Kong and elsewhere into co-productions—deals with Chinese partners that circumvent the quota but come under the censors' gaze.

Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand Joe Morgenstern 2011

There are lots of co-productions with Headlong, BOV and the Octagon Bolton, but old Hull Truck favourites such as John Godber get a look in, too.

This week's new theatre 2011

Total films made in Britain, including Hollywood productions and co-productions, fell from 150 to 128 last year.

UK film production hits the doldrums 2011

And in 2009 Kate Adie's documentary about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests caused BBC Worldwide to be blacklisted from programme buying and co-productions.

TV production companies view China with caution 2011

It works for co-productions as well, though those can be trickier: despite being originally recorded in English, things like Afro Samurai or Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust are Japanese cartoons because they were written and directed by predominantly Japanese staff.

MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010

"Europeans are ahead of the U.S. when it comes to original cross-platform work, largely because of government-subsidizes and co-productions," she says, noting that European broadcasters and film authorities have been allocating production funds for "new media" components for longer than their U.S. counterparts.

Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia Is Catching On (Part 2) Tribeca Film 2011