'The Mermaid' Producer Bill Borden on Filmmaking in China

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Bill Borden has spent years making movies in both the U.S. and China. He was a producer on Stephen Chow's recent film The Mermaid, the biggest hit in Chinese box office history. He tells us how filmmaking is different in China than the US, and what American filmmakers can do to bridge the divide.

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0:41.2	The Chinese are basically saying, oh, we can give you some money, but we want the movies made in China.
0:42.6	Well, once you say that, you have to, as a filmmaker, you have to deal with China.
0:47.3	You can't just go, yeah, I'm going to take a bank robbery film and make it in Beijing.
0:53.3	Producer Bill Borden has spent years figuring out how to make movies in China.
0:58.0	Most recently, he co-produced the new Stephen Chow comedy The Mermaid, the highest grossing
1:02.9	Chinese film of all time.
1:05.2	Borden tells us why Hollywood is finding it so tough to get its hands on Chinese money, and
1:10.6	he talks about a career path that took him from working as Mel Brooks' assistant
1:14.6	to creating Disney's worldwide mega-hit high school musical.
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