Iconic actress, Michelle Yeoh is to be honored alongside Warner Bros chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara at the U .S.-China Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles later this month.
Elizabeth Daley, dean and Steven J.
Ross/Time Warner Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, will also be honored.To be held at the Skirball Cultural Center on Oct.
30, the summit conference comes at a time of ratcheted-up tensions between China and the U.S.
and at a moment of profound change in the two country’s entertainment industry relations.Other prominent speakers include Legendary East CEO, Wayne Jiang; “The Meg” director Jon Turteltaub; “Crazy Rich Asians” producer John Penotti; former Wanda executive Jack Gao; and Albert Cheng, COO and Co-Head of Television, Amazon Studios.Chinese actress and director Eva Jin, producer Ben Ji, ICM partner Spencer Baumgarten, Warner Bros.
executive Chantal Nong, Artist International Group CEO David Unger,
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