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Aston Villa owner Dr Tony Xia is on the verge of buying a major Hollywood film producer.

The Recon Group is reportedly in talks to buy Millenium Films, the company behind the star-studded The Expendables franchise.

The purchase would be made from Wenyuan Cable, a company that was acquired by Xia in October.

The deal is reported on Bloomberg.com , it is reported that both companies are yet to comment on the speculated takeover by Xia's company.

It follows a huge Chinese interest in the US film industry with Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group buying Legendary Entertainment.

Wang Jianlin had recently been linked with the West Brom takeover, albeit loosely.

We revealed in October last year that Xia had a big interest in Hollywood after the owner revealed to Chinese media outlet, South China Morning Post, that he is buying stakes in one of the ‘big six’ movie studios.

The Recon front man already has an impressive portfolio of businesses, with Villa right at the forefront, but is not just football-focused.

The ‘big six’ refers to Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Universal, Sony Pictures and Walt Disney and will set Xia and his group back ‘billions of US dollars’.

He also revealed plans to invest in a ‘big eight’ studio.

Now it seems that Xia will firm up that interest with the deal for Millenium Films.

Could we see Gabby Agbonlahor rubbing shoulders with Sylvester Stallone in the next Expendables film?