China’s Wanda Scraps $1 Billion Deal to Buy Hollywood’s Dick Clark Productions

Eldridge Industries, the U.S. owner of Dick Clark Productions Inc., said on Friday that one of its affiliates terminated an agreement to sell off the TV production company to Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group. Eldridge, which also owns magazines such as the Billboard and the Hollywood Reporter, said the affiliate terminated the agreement after Wanda failed to honor contractual obligations.