By Elaine Low
16.04.2020 - 05:37 / variety.com
By Rebecca Davis
editor
Legendary Entertainment has hired Sirena Liu as the CEO of its China subsidiary, Legendary East. Legendary is the studio behind the “Pacific Rim,” “Jurassic World” and the “Godzilla” movie franchises.
Liu was most recently managing director for Twentieth Century Fox’s China office, a post she’d held since October 2015 until mid 2019. The post became redundant following Fox’s acquisition by Disney.
After a stumbling start in 2011, Legendary East was established as a
By Elaine Low
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LONDON – Warner Music Group is aligning its senior leadership team in one of the world’s biggest music markets with the promotion of Andy Ma to the new role of CEO, Warner Music Greater China, responsible for the company’s operations in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Ma joined Warner in 2011 and has headed its China division since 2018, when h
By Rebecca Davis
Legendary Entertainment has appointed Sirena Liu CEO of Legendary East, the studio's China-based division, which is responsible for marketing, licensing and merchandising Legendary’s theatrical film and TV projects in the Middle Kingdom market. The announcement was made Thursday by Legendary's CEO Joshua Grode, to whom Liu will report.