The Weinstein Company (TWC) voiced currently that it has acquired from WE Distribution the placement rights is to world, outward of Middle East and French vocalization Europe, to the martial arts, movie noir epic DRAGON (WU XIA). TF1 are already fixed to apportion the movie in France. The movie will have its world premiere as segment of the authorized preference at this year's Cannes Film Festival. A 2011 melodramatic let go is approaching in the US.
Director, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, is a of Asia's many well-known filmmakers, his vicious and box office hits add endowment winning THE WARLORDS, that he constructed and directed, and BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, that he produced. With DRAGON (WU XIA) Chan brings to the shade an action-packed story of crime, family and redemption.
DRAGON (WU XIA) features a energetic garb of internationally well-known talent, led by action personality Donnie Yen (BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, IP MAN), a martial arts master, Yen is moreover the film's action choreographer; Takeshi Kaneshiro (HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, CHUNGKING EXPRESS) and Tang Wei (LUST, CAUTION, LATE AUTUMN). The movie outlines the initial movie look in 17 years of the mythological Jimmy Wang Yu (ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN, THE CHINESE BOXER), who is at large attributed as the initial Hong Kong kung fu star.
Along with Chan, the stellar lineup at the back the camera includes the taking flight young executive of photography Jake Pollock (THE MESSAGE, MONGA), maestro executive of photography Lai Yiu-Fai (INFERNAL AFFAIRS, 2046); mythological Hong Kong prolongation planner Yee Chung Man (THE WARLORDS, CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER); and heading dress planner Dora Ng (BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN).
TWC has moreover acquired initial choice to reconstitute rights is to film.
The statement was done by TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein and Vice President of Acquisitions Dan Guando.
Said Chan, "During the production, Do! nnie was revelation me that Wu Xia becomes more and more similar to a Weinstein movie. It's no fluke that Harvey likes the film. we am on cloud nine to work with Harvey and we regard TWC is the most appropriate firm to take this movie to the US and general audience."
Said Weinstein, "Peter Chan is a loyal artist and with WU XIA he has combined a mental condition project, mixing two of my preferred genres: movie noir and martial arts. Peter has been a buddy for more than 10 years we could not be happier to be using him on this film."
Said Guando, "From the short time the movie was announced, TWC has been vehement about WU XIA. It is set to be a martial arts typical that will redefine the genre."
The treat was negotiated for TWC by Guando, Laine Kline, Executive Vice President Business and Legal Affairs, and Michal Steinberg, Senior Vice President Business Affairs and Acquisitions; and for WE Distribution by Katherine Lee, Executive Vice President.
WU XIA " SYNOPSIS
In the late Qing Dynasty, Liu (Donnie Yen) is a papermaker, heading a elementary life with his spouse Ayu (Tang Wei) and their two sons. Into their remote encampment comes Detective Xu (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who is questioning the deaths of two bandits during a robbery. Xu rapidly realizes that the situation in subject was no common botched housebreak " and his stubborn exploration threatens to dredge up the dim secrets of Liu's buried past, melancholy not usually Liu and his family, but the whole village.
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