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Disney’s ‘Iron Man 3′ has raked in over $100 million in China, though a country’s tip cinema boss, real-estate billionaire Wang Jianlin, isn’t a fan. Far from it. “Iron Man [3] done a mistake. It didn’t honour Chinese consumers,” he says. U.S. studios “want to acquire income in China though they wish to keep their style.” Wang owns Dalian Wanda Group, a largest private cinema user in China. Last year he acquired AMC Entertainment Holdings, a U.S. museum chain, for $2.6 billion, creation him a world’s largest cinema owner, with speak of some-more abroad deals to come. Not a male that we wish to cranky when U.S. studios are courting Wanda as an financier in destiny movies. Wanda recently allocated an ex-Disney executive to run a artistic multiplication in China, that creates Wang’s comments all a some-more intriguing.

First, some context. Marvel, Disney’s comic-franchise subsidiary, released a special chronicle of ‘Iron Man 3′ on May 1 that featured scenes shot in China. Domestic audiences saw stars like Fang Binbin and Wang Xueqi on shade in what was hyped as a made-in-China product. But this wasn’t a strange plan: Chinese co-financer DMG promoted a plan as a U.S.-China co-production, hence a internal content. Co-productions are remunerative to unfamiliar studios who can direct a incomparable cut of a box office. However, when capitulation from state regulators wasn’t forthcoming, Marvel resorted to a gimmicky special version. The outcome was a rumble of Chinese scenes and product placements that some viewers found during contingency with a rest of a film, that was shot in a U.S.

Speaking Thursday during a Fortune Global Forum in Chengdu, Wang dismissed these scenes as token efforts that didn’t honour a Chinese actors. He says U.S. studios contingency change their ways if they wish to attract China’s increasingly perceptive filmgoers during a time when U.S. film revenues are stagnant. Iron Man 3 “included dual Chinese stars. But they aren’t a many critical stars in a movie,” he complained “If American studios do this and wish to acquire money, though they don’t honour Chinese consumers they will destroy in China,” he said, earning acclaim from a mostly Chinese crowd. “You can’t have double standards.”

Wang spoke on a CCTV-moderated row with Dreamworks CEO Jeffery Katzenberg, whom he praised and pronounced he hoped to work with in future. Katzenberg, who has shaped a Dreamworks corner try in Shanghai with state-owned media companies, returned a compliment. “I’m certain that we will be doing things together,” he says. Just make certain that a Chinese talent isn’t sidelined.