The Oriental Movie Metropolis will also be the home to a celebrity wax museum, a film museum, an IMAX research lab, Asia's largest movie theaters, a convention center, shopping mall, resort hotels, indoor theme parks, a marina, international schools, an international hospital, an advanced temperature-controlled underwater stage and the world's largest indoor stage.
[11] According to Wang Jianlin, China's film box office revenue will surpass North America's by 2018 and double it by 2023.
[13] A handful of movie stars and executives from the film industry were paid to attend the grand opening of the Metropolis on September 22, 2013, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz, Kate Beckinsale, Ewan McGregor, John Travolta, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Harvey Weinstein, Rob Friedman, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Zhang Ziyi, Jet Li, Tony Leung, Donnie Yen, Huang Xiaoming, and Zhao Wei, amongst others.
[2][13] On January 11, 2016, Wanda Group announced that it concluded an agreement with shareholders to acquire Legendary Entertainment for US$3.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition of an American media company by a Chinese firm.
[16] In October 2016, Legendary announced that filming of Godzilla: King of the Monsters would take place at the Oriental Movie Metropolis facility along with Pacific Rim: Uprising.