The Los Angeles and Beijing-based producer-financier – backed by Chris Liu’s East Light Film Company – is lining up the sci-fi disaster story.
According to Cristal founder and producer Liu, Imago (working title) will be the first big budget sci-fi disaster movie to shoot in Hong Kong as an official Chinese co-production.
Adam Robitel, who directed the upcoming Insidious: Chapter 4, and Gavin Heffernan (The Taking Of Deborah Logan) are writing the screenplay.
Imago will shoot entirely on location in and around Hong Kong with a Western and Chinese cast and Western and Chinese effects teams.
The story takes place in the near future as scientific experiments to reverse global warming backfire.
“We loved this pitch,” said Cristal president Scott Einbinder (pictured). “It’s a great character-driven disaster movie, a genre favourite in China and around the world, with appeal for Us audiences as well. We’re fast-tracking this one and hope to be in production by late...
According to Cristal founder and producer Liu, Imago (working title) will be the first big budget sci-fi disaster movie to shoot in Hong Kong as an official Chinese co-production.
Adam Robitel, who directed the upcoming Insidious: Chapter 4, and Gavin Heffernan (The Taking Of Deborah Logan) are writing the screenplay.
Imago will shoot entirely on location in and around Hong Kong with a Western and Chinese cast and Western and Chinese effects teams.
The story takes place in the near future as scientific experiments to reverse global warming backfire.
“We loved this pitch,” said Cristal president Scott Einbinder (pictured). “It’s a great character-driven disaster movie, a genre favourite in China and around the world, with appeal for Us audiences as well. We’re fast-tracking this one and hope to be in production by late...
- 12/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
China-based movie company East Light Film Co. has founded and bankrolled new Los Angeles-based indie film finance and production outfit Cristal Pictures, whose principals Chris Liu and Scott Einbinder just co-financed and co-produced the upcoming Ryan Reynolds pic Hitman’s Bodyguard. Liu and Einbinder will be co-CEOs and the plan is to finance and produce mid-to-high-budget English-language motion pictures for global theatrical distribution. It will also have access to…...
- 9/7/2016
- Deadline
In the latest influx of Chinese cash to come Hollywood’s way, the veteran Hollywood producer Scott Einbinder has officially launched a Los Angeles-based finance and production company with the full backing of China’s East Light Film Company.
Cristal Pictures will produce and finance mid-to-high range English-language features for global theatrical distribution. The company has the capacity to fully finance projects as official Chinese co-productions or as films that can be distributed in China through the import quota.
Chris Liu of Beijing and Hong Kong-based East Light will serve as co-ceo alongside Einbinder after East Light raised equity from Chinese, Hong Kong and South East Asian investors to back the venture.
Cristal recently co-financed and co-produced Millennium Films’ Hitman’s Bodyguard, an action-comedy in post-production starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel Jackson, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek.
Patrick Hughes directs and Lionsgate will distribute wide in North America on August 16, 2017. Cristal retains Chinese distribution rights and plans to release...
Cristal Pictures will produce and finance mid-to-high range English-language features for global theatrical distribution. The company has the capacity to fully finance projects as official Chinese co-productions or as films that can be distributed in China through the import quota.
Chris Liu of Beijing and Hong Kong-based East Light will serve as co-ceo alongside Einbinder after East Light raised equity from Chinese, Hong Kong and South East Asian investors to back the venture.
Cristal recently co-financed and co-produced Millennium Films’ Hitman’s Bodyguard, an action-comedy in post-production starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel Jackson, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek.
Patrick Hughes directs and Lionsgate will distribute wide in North America on August 16, 2017. Cristal retains Chinese distribution rights and plans to release...
- 9/7/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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