User:Michael von Leheneck

Producer - Writer - Executive - Investor

Michael von Leheneck was born as Michael Lechner von Leheneck from an Austrian-Bavarian noble family with roots in Italy and the Austrian Empire in Salzburg. He studied Law, Mass Communication and Political Sciences in Salzburg and later Law at Harvard University in the USA. As a child Michael attended the Summer Academy of Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg in Austria and he has been living long in Vienna, Geneva and later in New York followed by LA (Hollywood) to then settle in Shanghai where has been his base since 2007.

In his business adventures, he is a myth and a legend. In the early 90-ties he founded Eurobooks group a publishing and media company publishing books, magazines and newspapers and producing music, among others with world known artists such as Tina Turner and Bob Marley. He turned his company in one of Europe's leading media groups before selling it in 2003. Now Michael von Leheneck is into Movie, Film and Media investments. He is a Founder-Shareholder of MAVERIX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP in Hong Kong and of the MAVERIX HOLLYWOOD FILM FUND in Hong Kong with offices in Shanghai and in West Hollywood (Los Angeles).

The Founders-Shareholders of the MAVERIX HOLLYWOOD FILM FUND Hong Kong are Hollywood Veterans and known Chinese, Hong Kong, Malaysian, German, Austrian, Italian, Swiss and American Private Equity Investors close to the MAVERIX Founder Michael Lechner von Leheneck, they all have a solid track record of 20-30 Years in this industry. Their movies represent an overall total box office of USD 4.8 BILLION. Among many other projects they facilitated part of the financing of Quentin Tarantino’s INGLORIOUS BASTERDS with Brad Pitt, DJANGO UNCHAINED with Leonardo DiCaprio, the financing of Martin Scorsese’s THE AVIATOR with Leonardo DiCaprio, and they financed the 7-time Oscar winner SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE with Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth, and Judi Dench.