Huang Wei, the VP of China's Bona Film Group who managed its cinema division, has died by suicide, jumping from the 18th-floor offices of the company's Beijing headquarters today, according to multiple Chinese reports. He was 52.In a brief statement posted to social media late Wednesday, Bona wrote that he had died on June 10, saying: "Our entire company is in deep mourning." It added no further details.Bona's headquarters are located in central Beijing next to the U-Town Mall in...
Bona Film Group
Yu
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Founder / Chairman / CEO
Yu backed several recent Hollywood tentpoles, including “Ad Astra,” “Midway” and “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” but his biggest impact has been in his native China, where he produced its number one grosser of 2018, the battleship adventure “Operation Red Sea” ($575 million), and the number four biggest film of 2019, the anthology “My People, My Country” ($445 million). A high-stakes risk taker, Yu quit China Film Group to found Polybona in 1999 at the dawn of the country’s film-industry reform movement. Working initially with Hong Kong talent, he made Bona Film a prestige label, earning it the nickname of Chinese Miramax. He’s also quite the financial innovator, floating the company on the NASDAQ for a period before surprisingly de-listing it in 2016.