Hollywood honors Shanghai roots in film

But unlike other Hollywood producers pressing the flesh at the Shanghai International Film Festival, he isn't just shopping for projects in what is fast becoming America's hottest foreign movie market. For the producer who worked on films like  “Rocky, “  “Apocalypse Now “ and  “The Terminator, “ the festival is a homecoming of sorts.
Medavoy was born in Shanghai in 1941 to Russian-Jewish parents and lived there for six years before moving with his family to Chile and then the US. And now the veteran producer has found the perfect project to honor his Chinese roots — an adaptation of a Chinese love story set against World War II-era Shanghai.