Just two Us studio films, Avengers: Endgame and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs And Shaw, made it into the year-end top ten.
China’s box office increased by 5.4% to $9.2bn (RMB64.3bn) in 2019, according to figures from the China Film Administration, mostly off the back of a small number of out-sized local releases.
Local films accounted for 64% of total box office with a combined haul of $5.9bn (RMB41.2bn), despite a slowdown in local production due to increased censorship and the fallout from the tax scandal in 2018. Hollywood and other imported titles saw their market share decline further as Chinese films...
China’s box office increased by 5.4% to $9.2bn (RMB64.3bn) in 2019, according to figures from the China Film Administration, mostly off the back of a small number of out-sized local releases.
Local films accounted for 64% of total box office with a combined haul of $5.9bn (RMB41.2bn), despite a slowdown in local production due to increased censorship and the fallout from the tax scandal in 2018. Hollywood and other imported titles saw their market share decline further as Chinese films...
- 1/6/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Yellow Affair also closed deals on Mika Kaurismaki’s Master Cheng for Switzerland, Israel , and Hungary.
The Yellow Affair has struck a North American deal with 1091 Media for Elizabeth Sankey’s essay film Romantic Comedy.
Yellow Affair also closed deals on Mika Kaurismaki’s Master Cheng for Switzerland (Frenetic Films), Israel (New Cinema), and Hungary (Circo). A Japanese deal is in negotiations now.
Kaurismaki produces for his own Marianna Films. The co-production companies are Huang Yaqui’s QianJi Culture Co. Ltd (China) and Iain Brown’s By Media (China/UK).
Kaurismaki directs from a screenplay by Hannu Oravisto. The...
The Yellow Affair has struck a North American deal with 1091 Media for Elizabeth Sankey’s essay film Romantic Comedy.
Yellow Affair also closed deals on Mika Kaurismaki’s Master Cheng for Switzerland (Frenetic Films), Israel (New Cinema), and Hungary (Circo). A Japanese deal is in negotiations now.
Kaurismaki produces for his own Marianna Films. The co-production companies are Huang Yaqui’s QianJi Culture Co. Ltd (China) and Iain Brown’s By Media (China/UK).
Kaurismaki directs from a screenplay by Hannu Oravisto. The...
- 5/21/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
First image released from film, which shot in Finland and will shoot in China in October.
The Yellow Affair has boarded international sales for Mika Kaurismaki’s new film Master Cheng, and will discuss the film with buyers in Toronto.
Kaurismaki has wrapped the Finnish portion of the shoot for Master Cheng, which he also produces for his own Marianna Films. The co-production companies are Huang Yaqui’s QianJi Culture Co. Ltd (China) and Iain Brown’s By Media (China/UK).
The film shot July 16 to Aug 23 in Finnish Lapland, including Raattama, Kittilä, Muonio, Ylläs and Sodankylä. In October, it...
The Yellow Affair has boarded international sales for Mika Kaurismaki’s new film Master Cheng, and will discuss the film with buyers in Toronto.
Kaurismaki has wrapped the Finnish portion of the shoot for Master Cheng, which he also produces for his own Marianna Films. The co-production companies are Huang Yaqui’s QianJi Culture Co. Ltd (China) and Iain Brown’s By Media (China/UK).
The film shot July 16 to Aug 23 in Finnish Lapland, including Raattama, Kittilä, Muonio, Ylläs and Sodankylä. In October, it...
- 9/4/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards 3D family fantasy with Willow Shields.
Metro International has boarded sales on completed UK-China-New Zealand family adventure movie Into The Rainbow (formerly The Wonder).
The Hunger Games’ Willow Shields, Chinese star Leo Wu, Taiwanese actress Joe Chen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Archie Kao star in the story of two teenagers who travel inside a super-powered rainbow to China.
Norman Stone (Shadowlands) and Gary Wing-Lun Mak (My Beautiful Kingdom) direct the 3D feature written by Ashley Sidaway, Robert Sidaway and Lindsay Edmonds. Producers include Richard Fletcher (Boy) and Iain Brown (Indian Summer).
The English-language production is part-financed by Tien Ran Media Group, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba. The Golden Era distributor Stellar Mega Films is due to release locally.
The project was previously handled by Embankment Films.
Metro International has boarded sales on completed UK-China-New Zealand family adventure movie Into The Rainbow (formerly The Wonder).
The Hunger Games’ Willow Shields, Chinese star Leo Wu, Taiwanese actress Joe Chen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Archie Kao star in the story of two teenagers who travel inside a super-powered rainbow to China.
Norman Stone (Shadowlands) and Gary Wing-Lun Mak (My Beautiful Kingdom) direct the 3D feature written by Ashley Sidaway, Robert Sidaway and Lindsay Edmonds. Producers include Richard Fletcher (Boy) and Iain Brown (Indian Summer).
The English-language production is part-financed by Tien Ran Media Group, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba. The Golden Era distributor Stellar Mega Films is due to release locally.
The project was previously handled by Embankment Films.
- 11/2/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: China-nz-uk production with Karl Urban, Willow Shields gets cast, finance, director.
China-nz-uk 3D fantasy The Wonder, starring Karl Urban (Dredd) and Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) is currently prepping in China with shoot due to get underway early next month.
UK sales outfit Embankment Films has boarded international sales on the $20m feature, which will now be directed by actor-director Saul Rubinek (True Romance) who has taken over from Sliding Doors filmmaker Peter Hewitt.
Additional cast includes Il Postino actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Chinese teen star Wu Lei and leading Chinese actress Joe Chen Chiau-En (The Monkey King).
Also new to the English-language production is financier Tien Ran Media Group, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is making its first foray into international film production.
Tien Ran replaces Show + Share Investment as the film’s primary Chinese financier.
The Golden Era distributor Stellar Mega Films is due to release locally.
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China-nz-uk 3D fantasy The Wonder, starring Karl Urban (Dredd) and Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) is currently prepping in China with shoot due to get underway early next month.
UK sales outfit Embankment Films has boarded international sales on the $20m feature, which will now be directed by actor-director Saul Rubinek (True Romance) who has taken over from Sliding Doors filmmaker Peter Hewitt.
Additional cast includes Il Postino actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Chinese teen star Wu Lei and leading Chinese actress Joe Chen Chiau-En (The Monkey King).
Also new to the English-language production is financier Tien Ran Media Group, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is making its first foray into international film production.
Tien Ran replaces Show + Share Investment as the film’s primary Chinese financier.
The Golden Era distributor Stellar Mega Films is due to release locally.
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- 9/28/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Start-up UK and Beijing-based production company Parc Media has unveiled a slate of three China-uk co-productions, two of which will use Douglas Trumbull’s new Magi 3D process.
The new technology is designed to capture and display images at 120 frames per second in 4K and 3D on giant screens using conventional digital projectors.
The first Parc Media project scheduled to shoot with Magi 3D is previously-announced fantasy adventure The Wonder 3D, which will be co-produced by China’s Show + Share Investment.
Peter Hewitt is directing the $20m project with Karl Urban and Willow Shields heading the cast.
Parc Media also plans to co-produce $60m sci-fi epic StarSailor, written and to be directed by Trumbull and designed for Magi 3D. The producers are in talks with potential Chinese government financiers.
Finally, Parc Media is also teaming with China’s Central New Film Group (Cnfg) on $30m Sino-uk co-production Angel In The Dark, which is not...
The new technology is designed to capture and display images at 120 frames per second in 4K and 3D on giant screens using conventional digital projectors.
The first Parc Media project scheduled to shoot with Magi 3D is previously-announced fantasy adventure The Wonder 3D, which will be co-produced by China’s Show + Share Investment.
Peter Hewitt is directing the $20m project with Karl Urban and Willow Shields heading the cast.
Parc Media also plans to co-produce $60m sci-fi epic StarSailor, written and to be directed by Trumbull and designed for Magi 3D. The producers are in talks with potential Chinese government financiers.
Finally, Parc Media is also teaming with China’s Central New Film Group (Cnfg) on $30m Sino-uk co-production Angel In The Dark, which is not...
- 1/28/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Chinese film producers Chun-Yi Yueh and Changyu Li and UK writer-producers Robert and Ashley Sidaway together with the UK’s Iain Brown and Brown Films have launched the $5m funded Sz Wonder Pictures.
The new outfit will produce five feature films over three years based out of Shenzen, China and Auckland, New Zealand.
The first title is $18m family fantasy adventure The Wonder 3D, directed by BAFTA Award-winner Peter Hewitt (Garfield, The Borrowers) which will start principal photography in October 2013 in Auckland and Shenzhen. The Chinese and Western cast will be announced shortly but Karl Urban and Willow Shields were previously understood to be attached to the project.
Us-based Hyde Park International will handle sales and distribution on the film outside mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Production partners include venture capital company RuHing Partners in China, New Zealand Film Commission and Film Auckland. Bonding the film in both China and New Zealand is European Film Bonds...
The new outfit will produce five feature films over three years based out of Shenzen, China and Auckland, New Zealand.
The first title is $18m family fantasy adventure The Wonder 3D, directed by BAFTA Award-winner Peter Hewitt (Garfield, The Borrowers) which will start principal photography in October 2013 in Auckland and Shenzhen. The Chinese and Western cast will be announced shortly but Karl Urban and Willow Shields were previously understood to be attached to the project.
Us-based Hyde Park International will handle sales and distribution on the film outside mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Production partners include venture capital company RuHing Partners in China, New Zealand Film Commission and Film Auckland. Bonding the film in both China and New Zealand is European Film Bonds...
- 8/20/2013
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Karl Urban ("Star Trek"), Willow Shields ("The Hunger Games") and Leehom Wang ("Lust, Caution") will star in Ron Underwood's 3D family action adventure "The Wonder".
Shields plays 14-year-old who, together with two of her classmates, find the end of a rainbow which transports them to China. They soon find themselves pursued by both local authorities and a mysterious organisation.
With help from Consul William Stanley (Urban), the kids elude those after them but discover their trip has triggered a major natural disaster.
Robert Sidaway, Iain Brown, Steve Sachs and Chun-Yi Yueh are producing.
Source: Screen Daily...
Shields plays 14-year-old who, together with two of her classmates, find the end of a rainbow which transports them to China. They soon find themselves pursued by both local authorities and a mysterious organisation.
With help from Consul William Stanley (Urban), the kids elude those after them but discover their trip has triggered a major natural disaster.
Robert Sidaway, Iain Brown, Steve Sachs and Chun-Yi Yueh are producing.
Source: Screen Daily...
- 11/1/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
This could be an interesting combination. Karl Urban and young & sweet Willow Shields are set to star in the upcoming 3D fantasy film titled The Wonder. The movie comes from director Ron Underwood and, apparently it will include a lot of teenagers, magic, a rainbow, catastrophe and… well, China? Try to find some connection, or read the rest of this report for more details.
So at this moment, thanks to THR, we know that The Wonder will center on Shields’ character, 14-year-old Rachel who, together with two of her classmates, find the end of a rainbow which, magically, transports them to China.
There, they find themselves pursued by local authorities and a mysterious organisation.
With unexpected help from Consul William Stanley, played by Urban, the kids are able to elude their chasers but soon discover that their journey has triggered a major natural disaster.
Together with their new friend Cheng,...
So at this moment, thanks to THR, we know that The Wonder will center on Shields’ character, 14-year-old Rachel who, together with two of her classmates, find the end of a rainbow which, magically, transports them to China.
There, they find themselves pursued by local authorities and a mysterious organisation.
With unexpected help from Consul William Stanley, played by Urban, the kids are able to elude their chasers but soon discover that their journey has triggered a major natural disaster.
Together with their new friend Cheng,...
- 11/1/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
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