Megaton Entertainment, an indie distribution and film sales firm, has picked up a pair of titles from Hong Kong production entities Amm Entertainment and Phoenix Waters. It is launching them at the American Film Market (AFM) this week.
Megaton is pre-selling “Chungking Mansions,” which it bills as the biggest zombie film in Hong Kong cinema history, and also as “ ’The Raid’ with zombies.” Directed by banker turned producer and director Bizhan Tong (“The Escort”), the film tracks a diverse group of people who, following a zombie attack, try to break into Chungking Mansions.
The building was made famous in Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express and is possibly the richest cultural melting pot in the predominantly Chinese city. Wong is reputed to have called it a “mass-populated and hyperactive place.”
Currently in pre-production, the film is set to employ a suitably diverse cast including: Japan’s Rina Takeda (“Attack on Titan...
Megaton is pre-selling “Chungking Mansions,” which it bills as the biggest zombie film in Hong Kong cinema history, and also as “ ’The Raid’ with zombies.” Directed by banker turned producer and director Bizhan Tong (“The Escort”), the film tracks a diverse group of people who, following a zombie attack, try to break into Chungking Mansions.
The building was made famous in Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express and is possibly the richest cultural melting pot in the predominantly Chinese city. Wong is reputed to have called it a “mass-populated and hyperactive place.”
Currently in pre-production, the film is set to employ a suitably diverse cast including: Japan’s Rina Takeda (“Attack on Titan...
- 11/2/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Greenlights ‘The Ferragnez – The Series’
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned unscripted show The Ferragnez – The Series, which will follow fashion blogger Chiara Ferragni and her rapper partner Fedez. The docu-reality series was filmed throughout late 2020 and early 2021, chronicling Ferragni’s second pregnancy and Fedez’s first participation in the Sanremo Music Festival. The eight-part series, produced by Banijay Italia for Amazon Studios, will launch exclusively on Prime Video globally in December 2021. “This new fantastic Italian Amazon Original production is the latest example of our commitment and investment in the Italian creative community,” said Georgia Brown, head of European Originals, Amazon Studios. “I am sure The Ferragnez – The Series will entertain Prime Video’s audiences in Italy and around the world by offering an unprecedented perspective on this iconic couple.”
Amazon Australia Racial Injustice Doc
Over in Aus, Amazon Prime Video is teaming with LADbible Australia on investigative documentary series Unheard,...
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned unscripted show The Ferragnez – The Series, which will follow fashion blogger Chiara Ferragni and her rapper partner Fedez. The docu-reality series was filmed throughout late 2020 and early 2021, chronicling Ferragni’s second pregnancy and Fedez’s first participation in the Sanremo Music Festival. The eight-part series, produced by Banijay Italia for Amazon Studios, will launch exclusively on Prime Video globally in December 2021. “This new fantastic Italian Amazon Original production is the latest example of our commitment and investment in the Italian creative community,” said Georgia Brown, head of European Originals, Amazon Studios. “I am sure The Ferragnez – The Series will entertain Prime Video’s audiences in Italy and around the world by offering an unprecedented perspective on this iconic couple.”
Amazon Australia Racial Injustice Doc
Over in Aus, Amazon Prime Video is teaming with LADbible Australia on investigative documentary series Unheard,...
- 9/20/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Asia Television, previously Hong Kong’s number two free-to-air broadcaster, may no longer be visible on local TV screens. But the ex-broadcaster is now being recast as a content studio, with its new offshoot Amm Global leading the charge.
The division is headed by Bizhan Tong, a Chinese-British former banker turned filmmaker (“The Escort”). He joined the company after directing “Lockdown,” a U.K.-Hong Kong co-venture film produced and co-financed by Tong’s Phoenix Waters Productions, Hong Kong asset management firm Yg Capital, and Amm Global. International sales are handled jointly by Amm Global and US firm OneTwoThree.
The movie, being launched at FilMart, is a pandemic-era thriller in which an actor must keep passing devious tests set by a casting director in order to keep the people around him alive. As events escalate and more people are trapped the actor must confront his past, overcome his present, and...
The division is headed by Bizhan Tong, a Chinese-British former banker turned filmmaker (“The Escort”). He joined the company after directing “Lockdown,” a U.K.-Hong Kong co-venture film produced and co-financed by Tong’s Phoenix Waters Productions, Hong Kong asset management firm Yg Capital, and Amm Global. International sales are handled jointly by Amm Global and US firm OneTwoThree.
The movie, being launched at FilMart, is a pandemic-era thriller in which an actor must keep passing devious tests set by a casting director in order to keep the people around him alive. As events escalate and more people are trapped the actor must confront his past, overcome his present, and...
- 3/15/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
First project, suspense thriller Lockdown, was filmed across five countries during the pandemic.
Hong Kong’s oldest broadcaster Asia Television (Atv) is returning to production with a slate of film and TV projects developed in partnership with UK production company Phoenix Waters Productions.
The first project, suspense thriller Lockdown, has already wrapped and is in post-production after shooting during the pandemic in the UK, US, Hong Kong, Italy and Japan. The primarily English-language film revolves around an actor who enters a video audition and must pass a series of tests to keep those around him alive. Some of his alt-right...
Hong Kong’s oldest broadcaster Asia Television (Atv) is returning to production with a slate of film and TV projects developed in partnership with UK production company Phoenix Waters Productions.
The first project, suspense thriller Lockdown, has already wrapped and is in post-production after shooting during the pandemic in the UK, US, Hong Kong, Italy and Japan. The primarily English-language film revolves around an actor who enters a video audition and must pass a series of tests to keep those around him alive. Some of his alt-right...
- 12/23/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Girls with guns movies similar to “The Inspector Wears Skirts” series directed by Wellson Chin Sing Wai, were popular in Hong Kong during the late 80s. In this updated version, director Wilson Chin Kwok Wai offers us nothing new except more cleavage and perhaps a glossier looking movie.
Nonetheless, “Special Female Force” kicks off with a bang in a Thailand hotel resort where an all-female task force, dressed only in bikinis, comes face to face with a terrorist known as the President. After a very violent shootout in which five of the six members were killed, the President manages to escape unharmed thanks to the help of his blood thirty body guard.
Fast forward twenty years, we learn that the sole survivor is now working in the Hong Kong police academy, where she’s taking on new female recruits. It also happens that one of the girls...
Nonetheless, “Special Female Force” kicks off with a bang in a Thailand hotel resort where an all-female task force, dressed only in bikinis, comes face to face with a terrorist known as the President. After a very violent shootout in which five of the six members were killed, the President manages to escape unharmed thanks to the help of his blood thirty body guard.
Fast forward twenty years, we learn that the sole survivor is now working in the Hong Kong police academy, where she’s taking on new female recruits. It also happens that one of the girls...
- 9/10/2018
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
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