Deal kicks off at Filmart with six Enlight titles including Alec Su’s The Devotion Of Suspect X, starring Wang Kai and Ruby Lin.
Im Global has signed an output deal with Enlight Pictures, one of China’s leading production and distribution companies, to handle worldwide sales outside China on the company’s upcoming slate.
Starting at Filmart in Hong Kong next week, Im Global will be handling six Enlight titles including Alec Su’s The Devotion Of Suspect X (pictured), starring Wang Kai and Ruby Lin. A thriller based on an award-winning Japanese novel by Keigo Higashino, the film will be released in China on March 31. China Lion holds North American, UK, Australian and New Zealand rights.
Im Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford said: “We’ve really enjoyed working with our partners at Enlight on previous projects together and we’re delighted to be extending the relationship into a multiple picture arrangement. This deal also...
Im Global has signed an output deal with Enlight Pictures, one of China’s leading production and distribution companies, to handle worldwide sales outside China on the company’s upcoming slate.
Starting at Filmart in Hong Kong next week, Im Global will be handling six Enlight titles including Alec Su’s The Devotion Of Suspect X (pictured), starring Wang Kai and Ruby Lin. A thriller based on an award-winning Japanese novel by Keigo Higashino, the film will be released in China on March 31. China Lion holds North American, UK, Australian and New Zealand rights.
Im Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford said: “We’ve really enjoyed working with our partners at Enlight on previous projects together and we’re delighted to be extending the relationship into a multiple picture arrangement. This deal also...
- 3/10/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler go all in in this first trailer for The House.
The House is set for release June 30, 2017.
After Scott and Kate Johansen (Ferrell and Poehler) lose their daughter Alex’s college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank (Jason Mantzoukas), they decide to start an illegal casino in the basement of his house.
The comedy The House also stars Nick Kroll (“Vacation,” TV’s “Kroll Show”), Allison Tolman (TV’s “Fargo”), Michaela Watkins (TV’s “Transparent”), Ryan Simpkins (“Arcadia”), Jessie Ennis (TV’s “Veep” and “Better Call Saul”), Rob Huebel (“Horrible Bosses 2,” TV’s “Transparent”), Cedric Yarbrough (TV’s “Reno 911!”) and Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Town,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Arrival”).
Andrew Jay Cohen makes his feature film directorial debut with The House. The script was...
The House is set for release June 30, 2017.
After Scott and Kate Johansen (Ferrell and Poehler) lose their daughter Alex’s college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank (Jason Mantzoukas), they decide to start an illegal casino in the basement of his house.
The comedy The House also stars Nick Kroll (“Vacation,” TV’s “Kroll Show”), Allison Tolman (TV’s “Fargo”), Michaela Watkins (TV’s “Transparent”), Ryan Simpkins (“Arcadia”), Jessie Ennis (TV’s “Veep” and “Better Call Saul”), Rob Huebel (“Horrible Bosses 2,” TV’s “Transparent”), Cedric Yarbrough (TV’s “Reno 911!”) and Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Town,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Arrival”).
Andrew Jay Cohen makes his feature film directorial debut with The House. The script was...
- 2/17/2017
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It seems reasonable to expect that a movie called “The Great Wall,” billed as the biggest production in China’s filmmaking history, would feature Chinese actors. Instead, when Universal and Legendary released the trailer for Zhang Yimou’s film, the first face viewers saw was that of the decidedly white Matt Damon, fighting monsters atop the Middle Kingdom’s most famous monument.
In America, it was a call to arms in the battle against whitewashing, that curious tendency to insert Caucasian faces where history tells us there were none. “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that only a white man can save the world,” wrote comedian and “Fresh Off the Boat” star Constance Wu in a lengthy, impassioned statement posted to Twitter. “Our heroes don’t look like Matt Damon.”
China had another take. There, the prevailing sentiment over the trespass on their national identity might best be described as a Whatevs.
In America, it was a call to arms in the battle against whitewashing, that curious tendency to insert Caucasian faces where history tells us there were none. “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that only a white man can save the world,” wrote comedian and “Fresh Off the Boat” star Constance Wu in a lengthy, impassioned statement posted to Twitter. “Our heroes don’t look like Matt Damon.”
China had another take. There, the prevailing sentiment over the trespass on their national identity might best be described as a Whatevs.
- 8/30/2016
- by Aaron Fox-Lerner
- Indiewire
Fox International Channels (Fic) unit Star Chinese Movies (Scm) has acquired TV and digital media rights to three of Beijing-based Enlight Media’s biggest current titles.
The three titles are action comedy Hollywood Adventures, written and produced by Justin Lin (Star Trek 3), coming-of-age drama The Left Ear, based on Rao Zueman’s popular novel; and comedy Lost In Hong Kong, which stars Zhao Wei and Xu Zheng.
Zhao Wei also stars in Hollywood Adventures along with Huang Xiaoming and Tong Dawei. The film is scheduled for wide China release on June 26. The Left Ear was a hit when it was released in China earlier this year and Lost In Hong Kong is scheduled for release in September/October.
The three titles will be available on Star Chinese Movies (Scm) linear, VOD and online catch-up service (Scm Play) after their theatrical releases in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
“We are excited to work with Enlight Pictures and thrilled...
The three titles are action comedy Hollywood Adventures, written and produced by Justin Lin (Star Trek 3), coming-of-age drama The Left Ear, based on Rao Zueman’s popular novel; and comedy Lost In Hong Kong, which stars Zhao Wei and Xu Zheng.
Zhao Wei also stars in Hollywood Adventures along with Huang Xiaoming and Tong Dawei. The film is scheduled for wide China release on June 26. The Left Ear was a hit when it was released in China earlier this year and Lost In Hong Kong is scheduled for release in September/October.
The three titles will be available on Star Chinese Movies (Scm) linear, VOD and online catch-up service (Scm Play) after their theatrical releases in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
“We are excited to work with Enlight Pictures and thrilled...
- 6/18/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
This story first appeared in the June 19 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. On June 3, Justin Lin placed his hands in cement alongside Chinese superstars Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming at Hollywood's Tcl Chinese Theatre, marking a milestone that the filmmaker didn't take lightly. "As an Asian- American, representation has always been a big issue," said Lin, whose parents are Chinese and who grew up in Orange County. He talked to THR before the ceremony, which also celebrated the Chinese production Hollywood Adventures, starring the two actors (Lin produced).
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- 6/14/2015
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Justin Lin, the Taiwan-born director of Fast & Furious instalments 3 through 6, has been hard at work steering his Chinese language debut - the Us-set, star-studded action comedy Hollywood Adventures to the screen. Lin writes and produces the film, which stars Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Vicky Zhao Wei, as well as F&F's Sung Kang, and a host of cameos from the likes of Missi Pyle and Stephen Tobolowsky. In the director's chair is Timothy Kendall, whose prominent credits appear to be directing episodes of TV shows like The Book Club and Dick Fowler, Pi. The plot centres around Yu Ming (Huang), who heads to Los Angeles to propose to his girlfriend (Sarah Li). Along the way he inadvertently teams up with another Chinese tourist...
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- 6/3/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The biggest deals of this year’s Cannes Marché du Film and how the Competition titles sold throughout the festival.
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
- 5/22/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Im Global has picked up international rights outside the Us and South-East Asia to Chinese action comedy Hollywood Adventures, produced by Justin Lin.
Directed by Timothy Kendall, the Chinese and English-language film was mostly shot in Los Angeles and stars Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Vicky Zhao Wei. It was backed by Beijing-based Enlight Pictures and Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment. A wide Chinese release has been scheduled for June 26.
In addition to Lin, producers on the film include Anne Clements, John Pierson and Lin’s partner in Perfect Storm Entertainment, Troy Craig Poon.
Im Global is also selling Wuershan’s big-budget adventure The Ghouls, co-produced by Wanda Pictures, Huayi Brothers and Enlight Pictures, at Cannes. “We’re seeing more of these big Chinese movies that in terms of production values and visual sophistication can compete with anything out there,” said Im Global chief Stuart Ford.
Under its output deal with Huayi Brothers, Im Global is also...
Directed by Timothy Kendall, the Chinese and English-language film was mostly shot in Los Angeles and stars Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Vicky Zhao Wei. It was backed by Beijing-based Enlight Pictures and Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment. A wide Chinese release has been scheduled for June 26.
In addition to Lin, producers on the film include Anne Clements, John Pierson and Lin’s partner in Perfect Storm Entertainment, Troy Craig Poon.
Im Global is also selling Wuershan’s big-budget adventure The Ghouls, co-produced by Wanda Pictures, Huayi Brothers and Enlight Pictures, at Cannes. “We’re seeing more of these big Chinese movies that in terms of production values and visual sophistication can compete with anything out there,” said Im Global chief Stuart Ford.
Under its output deal with Huayi Brothers, Im Global is also...
- 5/16/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Fresh from a capital injection from Alibaba and a stellar year at the box office, Beijing-based Enlight Pictures has lined up a string of top Chinese filmmakers for its 2015 slate, including Xu Zheng, Zhang Yibai, Deng Chao and actress Zhou Xun.
The ambitious studio is also expanding its partnership with Justin Lin, who recently produced Hollywood Adventures, starring Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, and next year will direct a 3D remake of Shaolin Temple for Enlight and Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment.
Lin is already planning a UK-set sequel to Hollywood Adventures, which is expected to start shooting next year.
Following the huge success of Lost In Thailand, Xu Zheng has directed a sequel, Lost In Hong Kong, in which he also stars with Zhao Wei and Bao Bei-er. Currently in post-production, the film is tentatively scheduled for an August release.
Zhou Xun is making her first foray into producing for Enlight with two projects...
The ambitious studio is also expanding its partnership with Justin Lin, who recently produced Hollywood Adventures, starring Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, and next year will direct a 3D remake of Shaolin Temple for Enlight and Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment.
Lin is already planning a UK-set sequel to Hollywood Adventures, which is expected to start shooting next year.
Following the huge success of Lost In Thailand, Xu Zheng has directed a sequel, Lost In Hong Kong, in which he also stars with Zhao Wei and Bao Bei-er. Currently in post-production, the film is tentatively scheduled for an August release.
Zhou Xun is making her first foray into producing for Enlight with two projects...
- 3/23/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Speakers at the Summit included Us Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin [pictured].
The ups and downs of cross-border film finance and production was the central theme at the Fifth Annual Us-China Film Summit in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday (Nov 5).
Us Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin said at the event that co-operation between the Us and Chinese film industries “can be an economic force for good, bringing prosperity and growth to both sides of the Pacific.”
“America and China each have the chance to maximise those benefits,” said Rivkin, a former CEO of the Jim Henson Company, “if we can both operate with the certainty and security that comes from strong enforcement of intellectual property rights and protection of investor interests.”
Referring to talks at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation trade forum that began this week in Beijing, Rivkin stressed the “importance of completing our negotiations...
The ups and downs of cross-border film finance and production was the central theme at the Fifth Annual Us-China Film Summit in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday (Nov 5).
Us Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin said at the event that co-operation between the Us and Chinese film industries “can be an economic force for good, bringing prosperity and growth to both sides of the Pacific.”
“America and China each have the chance to maximise those benefits,” said Rivkin, a former CEO of the Jim Henson Company, “if we can both operate with the certainty and security that comes from strong enforcement of intellectual property rights and protection of investor interests.”
Referring to talks at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation trade forum that began this week in Beijing, Rivkin stressed the “importance of completing our negotiations...
- 11/6/2014
- ScreenDaily
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