Taipei-based worldwide gross sales firm Distribution Workshop can be promoting Lunar New 12 months hit Hidden Blade, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Wong Ching-po’s highly-anticipated new movie, The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon, on the upcoming European Movie Market (EFM) in Berlin.
Directed by Cheng Er, Hidden Blade is a spy thriller set in Shanghai in the course of the Second World Battle, and likewise stars Wang Yibo (Born To Fly) and Zhou Xun (Our Time Will Come).
The $45m manufacturing has to this point grossed $116.6M since its launch over the Lunar New 12 months holidays on January 22, in response to figures from Artisan Gateway.
The movie is the third installment within the “China Victory Trilogy” produced by Beijing-based Bona Movie Group, following Chinese language Medical doctors and The Battle At Lake Changjin. Cheng Er is thought for crime dramas similar to Deadly Hostage (2012) and The Wasted Instances (2016).
The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon is produced by Lee Lieh, one among Taiwan’s greatest producers with credit together with Detention and Monga. Golden Horse Award winner Ethan Juan (Monga) heads the solid together with Ben Yuen (Tracey), Chen Yi-wen (A Solar) and Gingle Wang (Detention).
The story follows a fugitive who has been in hiding for 4 years since looking for revenge on the funeral of a gang chief. He plans to show himself in, as he’s been recognized with most cancers and solely has six months to stay, till he discovers that he’s solely the third most-wanted prison on the police station bulletin board. He then decides to wipe out the highest two most-wanted criminals so he can die with prime honours.
The movie is aiming to launch within the second half of 2023. Wong Ching-po is thought for fashionable crime thrillers similar to As soon as Upon A Time In Shanghai (2014) and Mob Sister (2005).
Distribution Workshop can be handing gross sales on Taiwanese filmmaker Chan Ching-lin’s Coo-Coo 043, which gained finest movie finally 12 months’s Golden Horse Awards, and horror movie Antikalpa, directed by Philip Shih and starring Guan Zhi Huang and Regina Lei.
