Iconic actress Michelle Yeoh (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) 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 and Steven J. Ross, dean and Time Warner professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, respectively, will also be honored.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...
Warner Bros. Pictures
Kevin
Tsujihara
Chairman / CEO
Tsujihara has spent the past five years readying Warner Bros. for its digital future, which is poised to accelerate now that the studio has been absorbed along with HBO and Turner by telecom giant AT&T. He has focused on efforts to revive some of the valuable IP in the studio’s vaults, from DC Comics properties to Bugs Bunny and other classic WB toons. Tsujihara was promoted to the top job at Warner Bros. in March 2013, having joined the studio in 1994 in its finance department and quickly shifting over to business development. He ranks as the first Japanese-American executive to run a major studio. Earlier in his career, while he was working at accounting giant Ernst & Young, he helped launch the early Internet venture QuickTax Inc.