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Hong Kong outfit Autumn Sun has secured international sales rights to Moonlight Madness, a Chinese comedy featuring Don Lee, and has already landed a distribution deal in Korea.

On the first day of Filmart, the sales agency revealed it has sold the feature to South Korea’s Big Wave Cinema, which is planning a theatrical release. The film opened in China on December 31.

The story centres on a top lawyer, played by Creation Of The Gods star Kris Phillips, who finds himself in hot water during an affair in a hotel. Lee makes a special appearance as a jealous boyfriend throwing his signature punches.

Hong Kong-based sales outfit Autumn Sun has picked up international sales on Moonlight Madness starring Korean actor Don Lee (The Roundup) in his first ever comedy role and first performance in a Chinese production.

The film also stars Kris Phillips (Creation Of The Gods I & II) as a top lawyer caught in hot waters during an affair in a hotel and features a special appearance by Lee who plays a jealous boyfriend throwing his signature punches.

Autumn Sun is handling sales on the movie in collaboration with Scene One launched by producer Serena Deng Shuo, who is also the film’s producer and credited for bringing Don Lee on board.

“When we first showed Ma Dong-seok (Don Lee) the script, he liked it being a comedy”, said Deng. “Having it be a Chinese production is also a first for the action superstar”.

Autumn Sun has already sold the film to Korea’s Big Wave Cinema,...

Get ready for an epic showdown amongst God and Men! The epic first trailer for the Chinese action fantasy sequel Creation of the Gods II: Demonic Confrontation has debuted online. It's worth a watch just to see some gigantic Gods involved in an epic battle. This is a follow-up to Wuershan's Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms film from 2023. This next one was originally supposed to open earlier this year, but was delayed because (as the director states): "they needed more time for postproduction work due to the huge number of special effects required for the film." Now set for release on/around Lunar New Year in 2025 in China (no info on the US release yet). So what is this next one about? Here's the brief intro: Taishi Wen Zhong led the army of Shang Dynasty including Deng Chanyu and four generals of the Mo Family to Xiqi.

The shadow of Xu Zhonglin's influential novel “The Investiture of the Gods” looms long over Chinese popular culture. As one of the most well-regarded vernacular epics since the 16th century, its heady blend of history and mythology has been a creatively enticing gauntlet for many filmmakers. Before now, the last big-budget stab at the material was 2016's 3D flop “League of Gods”, led by an all-star cast including Jet Li, Tony Leung Ka-Fai and Louis Koo, and still somehow won Worst Picture at that year's Golden Broom Awards. The crown now lies heavy on the head of filmmaker Wuershan, a director experienced in the fantasy genre (his “Painted Skin 2: The Resurrection” was at one time China's highest grossing movie domestically) but still holding the great responsibility of condensing 100 chapters of beloved high-concept magic and action into a movie…or three. Does the first chapter, “Kingdom of Storms”, capture...

Gu Xiaogang knows firsthand the impact that international film festivals can have.

Gu turned to the Beijing International Film Festival back in 2018 in an effort to get his breakthrough feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, made. He took his film to Bjiff’s project market and he walked away with the funds he needed after impressing investors with his story — an intimate look at a family’s life as it evolves across one year — along with his languid style.

The international film world has since felt much the same. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains went on to become the first Chinese-language film to close Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2019, was selected among the top 10 films of the year by the leading French film magazine Cahier du Cinema in 2020 and led directly to Gu being named a co-winner of the Akira Kurosawa Award at last year’s 36th Tokyo International Film Festival,...

Similar to his other films, Wuershan’s Creation of the Gods 1: Kingdom of Storms begins with a narration about how the world came to be. The world had no shape at the beginning of time. The mighty god Pangu transformed his body into the sun, the moon, the mountains, and the rivers. Another god, Nuwa, made people out of clay, and her spirit gave them life. When Nuwa died, she hid a powerful artifact that held the secret of creation. This artifact was called the “Fengshen Bang” and could turn humans and monsters into gods. The immortals of Kunlun were trusted to guard it. This artifact could only be opened by the king of all realms when it was absolutely necessary. Sadly, the current king of the realms was a despicable evil.

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Exclusive: Trinity CineAsia has acquired Chinese fantasy epic Creation Of The Gods I: Kingdom Of Storms for multiple territories, including the UK, Ireland, France and Spain.

Highlight Entertainment Co is handling international sales on the film, the first installment in a planned trilogy, which opened in China in late July and became a big hit, grossing more than $400M and still running.

Directed by leading Chinese filmmaker Wu Ershan (Mojin: The Lost Legend), the film is based on Chinese classic ‘Investiture Of The Gods’ (Fengshen Bang) and tells the story of an epic battle between humans, immortals and monsters during the overthrow of King Zhou at the end of the Shang Dynasty.

The cast is headed by Kris Phillips, Li Xuejian, Huang Bo, Yu Shi, Chen Muchi and Naran. Lead producers on the film include Du Yang, Luo Shanshan, Wu Erhan and Yan Xuefeng.

The film is being released theatrically...

Director Wuershan’s ambitious adaptation of Xu Zhonglin’s 16th-century novel has too much highly variable CGI but its idiosyncrasies set it apart

“Strange things keep happening these days,” muses Jiang Ziya (Bo Huang) halfway through this extravagant adaptation of Xu Zhonglin’s 16th-century myth-and-fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods. By this point, we’ve already seen a woman kill herself with a hatpin before being possessed by the spirit of a white fox; a gurgling, pistachio-coloured demon baby is found naked in the woods; and a conjuror who can make his head float free of his body when threatened with decapitation. Strange days indeed.

Ziya is one of three immortals sent to arrest the Great Curse which is threatening the future of the Shang dynasty. King Zhou (Kris Phillips) is besotted with the seductive but malevolent Su Daji (Naran), and is letting his kingdom descend into carnage. The only hope is the Fengshen Bang,...

The legendary Monkey King returns for a new adventure when Well Go USA Entertainment debuts The Monkey King 2 on digital December 6 and on Blu-ray™ and DVD January 3.

Set 500 years after the storyline in the first Monkey King film, ‘The Monkey King 2’ follows the adventures of the Monkey King as he and his new companions set off on their journey to the western regions to retrieve sacred Buddhist scriptures.

The star-studded ‘Monkey King 2’ sees Soi Cheang returning at the helm as he directs Asian powerhouse actors Aaron Kwok and Gong Li, as well as rising stars William Feng, Him Law, Xiao Shen Yang and Kris Phillips in this fantasy film based on the classic and popular Chinese tale “Journey to the West”.

Gong Li in The Monkey King 2

Award-winning Hong Kong multi-hyphenate (actor-singer-dancer) Aaron Kwok replaces Donnie Yen to play the lead role of Monkey King, and...

Painted Skin 2 The Resurrection Trailer, Poster. Wuershan‘s Painted Skin 2: The Resurrection (2012) movie trailer, movie poster stars Zhao Wei (aka Vicki Zhao), Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Feng Shaofeng, and Fei Xiang (aka Kris Phillips). Painted Skin 2: The Resurrection‘s plot synopsis: another interpretation of Pu Songling‘s classic tale Strange Stories from a Chinese [...]

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[Update: Added non-watermarked hi-res version of the posters.]Sina has posted seven character posters for Wuershan's supernatural fantasy Painted Skin 2 (aka Painted Skin: The Resurrection), giving us our first look at the cast in costumes that appears borderline anime cosplay style. The returning cast member include Zhao Wei (aka Vicki Zhao) as Princess Jing, Zhou Xun as Xiao Wei and Chen Kun as general Huo Xin. The supporting cast include Feng Shaofeng as exorcist Pang, Fei Xiang (aka Kris Phillips) as the Tian Lang wizard, Yang Mi as Que'er and Chen Tingjia (aka Chen Tingyan) as the Tian Lang Queen.The release date in China is on June 28th. You'll find the posters in our gallery below....