Hollywood producer Dan Mintz agrees to buy Carlyle stake in Taiwan broadcaster

By Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) - U.S. film maker Dan Mintz has agreed to buy Carlyle Group's 61 percent stake in Taiwan's Eastern Broadcasting Corp (EBC) for an undisclosed sum, allowing the private equity firm to sell an investment it first tried to dispose of in 2013. The statement came after the Los Angeles Times reported Mintz told the paper he had agreed to pay $600 million in the deal, seeking to tap into EBC's potential China growth as a broadcaster of content in Mandarin. The deal comes after Carlyle launched its latest bid to exit the holding last August jointly with EBC's second-biggest shareholder, Eastern Media International, for at least T$20 billion ($650 million).

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