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Disney is making first film in China

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Published: Dec. 14, 2005 at 8:31 PM

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Walt Disney Studios is making its first film in China, a live action children's movie called "The Secret of the Magic Gourd."

The production was announced Wednesday by Disney executives at the CineAsia film convention in Beijing.

The live-action Chinese-language film would make Disney the third Hollywood studio -- after Warner Bros. and Sony's Columbia -- to produce a film with China's growing industry, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Disney's partners in the adaptation of the 1958 children's book are the state-run China Film Group Corp. and Hong Kong's Centro Digital Pictures, which is best known for its work on Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill."

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