ASTON VILLA over Tony Xia is reportedly interested in buying the film company that produced Rambo, The Expendables and Olympus Has Fallen.
Millennium Films, which specialises in action-genre movies has caught the eye of the Chinese businessman and his company The Recon Group.
Recon purchased Wenyuan Cable back in October and he is reportedly using the company to buy Millennium.
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But Villa fans shouldn’t worry – Xia isn’t regarding the club as ‘expendables’ despite their stuttering Championship season ruling them all-but out of the running for promotion back to the Premier League.
And Xia is also NOT on the verge of signing Arsenal’s Aaron ‘Rambo’ Ramsey.
But the Villa owner is part of a wave of Chinese investors throwing cash at Hollywood in a bid to make money out of the film industry.
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Jason Statham movie franchise The Mechanic is also on Millennium’s showreel – and the British actor Statham is understood to be hugely popular in China.
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