While the agreement will result in greatly increased B.O. , Hollywood will likely seek to open Chinese borders even further. "I think, overall, people feel like it's important to get movement here and then go back to the drawing boards and push for...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon and other Imax and 3D films have been box-office winners in China. The Motion Picture Association of America hailed the deal as a "landmark" on Saturday, saying it will significantly boost U.S. exports to China overall. ...

But under a new agreement, China will permit an additional 14 films--they must be in 3D or IMAX--and distributors will take home 25 percent. The average for foreign distribution in other nation's around the globe is 30 percent. “This is a very big...

Box office receipts last year topped $2 billion, U.S. officials said.Chris Dodd, the association's CEO, who visited Shanghai last June to press Hollywood's case, said Friday's agreement "will return a much better share of the box office revenues to U.S...

Joe Biden and Xi, who was visiting Los Angeles on a trip to promote more trade between the countries. PHOTOS: Chinese vice president visits Easing China's restrictions on access to its vast market has been a top priority for the Motion Picture Assn. of...

The agreement allows more American exports to China of 3D, IMAX, and similar enhanced-format movies on favorable commercial terms, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said. "This is a major step forward in spurring the growth of U.S. exports to...

“This agreement will help to change that, boosting one of America’s strongest export sectors in one of our largest export markets.” MPAA Chairman/CEO Chris Dodd: “This is a major step forward in spurring the growth of U.S. exports to China. It has long...

It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise." Meanwhile, Chris Dodd, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, among the leading proponents of the legislation, warned, "I would caution people don't make the...

The Obama administration, without taking a direct stand on the legislation before Congress, said it wouldn’t support measures that encourage censorship or disrupt the structure of the Internet. Former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the...

MPAA’s Washington D.C. office has fleshed out its staff with four new positions, the organization’s chairman/CEO Chris Dodd announced today. Alex Swartsel, Brian Cohen and Lauren Pastarnack have joined the MPAA’s government affairs team and Kate...

Vice President for Global Policy and External Affairs, joined the MPAA this past June as a communications consultant. Swartsel recently returned to Washington after earning a masters in business administration at Yale. Prior to that she held positions...

But once in office, with a solid Democratic majority in both houses, Obama let the whole thing drop, no doubt because of opposition from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd. Baucus and Dodd...

But in the blame game, the political class locked arms to scream from the Capitol and White House steps and from the skyscraper tops that "greed" was the problem, in the private sector of course. The tangible encouragements heaped by unsound...

House, and two Senators (Conrad and Dodd) implicated as having taken loans through the VIP program as well as dozens of employees at government lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All of the politicians maintain that they didn’t know they were getting...

So, when MPAA president Chris Dodd threatens to leverage the entertainment industry's financial clout over the president ( he told Fox News, “Those who count on quote Hollywood for support need to understand that this industry is watching very...

"Buck" McKeon, R-Calif. , who has major influence over defense matters as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif. and Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y. — Issa's predecessor as House Oversight chairman. In addition, it...

"Buck" McKeon, R-Calif. , who has major influence over defense matters as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif. and Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y. - Issa's predecessor as House Oversight chairman. In addition, it...

The American Bankers Association-- the leading industry group-- released a statement calling the proposals “unwarranted, detrimental regulatory structures” and adding, “we are strongly opposed to the draft regulatory reform proposal that... Christopher...

Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been investigating the VIP operation to learn who received special deals from the program known internally as "Friends of Angelo." In addition, it previously was...