Disney, DMG team up to make ‘Iron Man 3’ a Chinese co-production
The Walt Disney Co. and its Marvel Studios subsidiary said Monday that “Iron Man 3” will be a co-production with China, as the Burbank company teamed with DMG Entertainment of Beijing to co-finance and distribute the film.
Robert Downey, Jr., Gwynneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle will return for the third movie in the hit franchise, whose two films grossed more than $1 billion worldwide and $42.8 million between them in China. The third installment of the movie will be directed by Shane Black unlike the first two installments which were directed by Jon Favreau. Filming in the U.S. is to start in May, and in China in late summer; the movie is slated for release in May 2013.
Foreign films co-produced in China have an easier time getting cleared by Chinese censors and do not fall under the country’s annual import cap.
-- -- Jonathan Landreth in Hong Kong, Los Angeles Times