Mr. Reeves's "Man of Tai Chi" is being funded by Australia-based Village Roadshow along with the state-backed China Film Group and Wanda Group, China's largest movie-theater operator.
The preponderance of that Hutchison name signals one thing: Chi-Med has a very powerful backer in Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man and chairman and dominant shareholder of the globe-spanning conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.