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    Shinework

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    China’s Shinework Pictures Unveils Fund, Slate of Co-Production Movies (EXCLUSIVE)
    Patrick Frater
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    SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 | 02:30AM PT
    Well-established Chinese TV producer, Shinework Media has launched a feature film division with a high-powered slate of co-production movies.

    Shinework Pictures, which is already producing the $65 million Jackie Chan film “Kung Fu Yoga,” says it expects to deliver 3-5 movies per year.

    The slate was unveiled Tuesday in Xi’an, the historic city where the Silk Road International Film Festival is currently being held.

    The lineup announcement was complemented by the launch of a film finance fund. The scale of the fund was not immediately confirmed though as this stage it is understood to have received investments from private equity sources, predominantly high net worth individuals.

    “The film fund and production company’s slate will be focused on commercial China co-production films that will appeal to the China box office and international markets with budgets ranging from $10 million to $60 million,” the company said in a statement. The model sees Shinework Pictures fully- or co-financing development and then bringing in partners and using the fund for the co-production.

    The emphasis on co-productions reflects the core business of Shinework Media and its founder Jonathan Shen. The company is producer of “World Film Report,” the weekly highbrow show on China Movie Channel (CCTV6.) Through the show’s international activities Shen has led outreach activities and been recognized by the United Nations’ World Peace Award and by the French Ministry of Culture.

    “Shinework has a long history of introducing Chinese audiences to international culture so we have focused on co-productions to give Chinese films an opportunity to successfully reach international audiences,” said Shen, chairman and CEO of Shinework Pictures.

    “China is the focus now for filmmakers worldwide, yet cultural and language barriers have made it challenging to access the Chinese market. Shinework is bridging the East and West to remove these barriers and become the next leading international Chinese film company for co-productions,” Daljit DJ Parmar (“The Lifeguard”,) Shinework Pictures’ VP of international told Variety.

    Co-productions will be structured either according to Chinese regulations on co-producing or according to bilateral treaties. In some cases the movies may be the first to use treaties or help the treaties come to fruition. The slate includes the first China-Iran co-production and the first China Kazakhstan co-production.”

    Titles include: sci-fi action film based on a Stan Lee character “Monkey Master,” structured as a co-production with India and being co-produced with Cinema Capital Advisory; Canadian animation “Zodiacation” with a script developed by Gerry Swallow (“Ice Age Meltdown”) and Arne Olsen; comedy action film “Way To Shaolin,”being made with Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation; drama “Composer” a biopic about Chinese composer, Xian Xing Hai to be made with Kazakhfilm; sports drama “Blades of Steel;” war actioner “Escape Shanghai,” about the WWII race for the first atomic bomb; and sports drama “The Wolf,” about a Chinese soccer player who follows his dream of playing professionally in Brazil.
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    Monkey Master

    Is this connected to The Zodiac Legacy by Stan-Lee?
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    A little more...

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    Stan Lee Creates New Superhero ‘Monkey Master’ for China-India Co-pro
    By Fergus Ryan|September 22nd, 2016
    Marvel’s Stan Lee will create a new character for audiences in China and India.
    New hero will be based on monkey warrior legends from the two Asian cultures.
    Chinese film group Shinework Pictures will partner with Lee’s media company POW! Entertainment and Graphic India to begin pre-production on a live-action film in 2017.


    Stan Lee. Photo by Wikipedia/Luigi Novi.

    Marvel Comics impresario Stan Lee and his long-time collaborator Sharad Devarajan are teaming up to launch “Monkey Master” as a new superhero drawing on the myths of China and India.

    Chinese film group Shinework Pictures will partner with Lee’s media company POW! Entertainment and Graphic India to begin pre-production on a live-action film in 2017. India’s Cinema Capital Advisory will co-produce the project.

    Graphic co-founder and CEO Devarajan, who also created “Chakra The Invincible,” the first Indian superhero, with Lee, said the story will take place between ancient and modern-day China and India and will draw on monkey warrior myths known to both cultures to create the modern day superhero.

    Monkey Master will interweave Chinese and Indian myths “to create a hero that will entertain fans across the world with his martial arts skills and unstoppable superpowers,” Lee said in a statement.

    The film will primarily be targeted towards the Chinese market, but will also be developed to appeal to international markets. The partners intend to cast leading Chinese, Indian, and international stars.

    “We are excited to leverage Stan Lee’s experience creating some of the world’s most popular superhero characters to create an epic Chinese superhero film that will not only appeal to China but also globally to international markets,” said Jonathan Shen, Shinework Pictures founder and CEO.

    Shinework’s producing team will include Shen, Iris Wang, and Daljit DJ Parmar. Champion will be a producer of the film, with Lee and Devarajan attached as executive producers.

    India and China inked an agreement in 2015 to kickstart a new filmmaking relationship between the two Asian giants which boast two of the world’s biggest film industries.

    The Sino-Indian co-productions that have followed include Kung Fu Yoga starring Jackie Chan, Buddies In India (大闹天竺), starring star comic Wang Baoqiang of Lost in Thailand fame, and Xuanzang, which tells of the spread of Buddhism to China from India.
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    John Woo

    John Woo to Produce Chinese Superhero Movie Based on Story by Stan Lee
    APRIL 01, 2021 8:44PM by Patrick Brzeski

    <p>John Woo and Monkey Master</p> | Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images; Graphic India and Jeevan J. Kang
    The film will feature Lee's take on the legend of the Monkey King, which he put together in 2016 for a comic book project that was unpublished at the time of his death.

    Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo is set to produce a Chinese superhero movie based on a story created by the late Stan Lee and his longtime collaborator Sharad Devarajan.

    The film will be an adaptation of Monkey Master, an unreleased comic book series that Lee and Devarajan created in 2016 as a loose riff on the Chinese legend of The Monkey King. The film will follow New York City archeologist Li Yong as he discovers an ancient prophecy about the Monkey King, which brings him to India where he uncovers a hidden power that transforms him into a modern-day superhero, The Monkey Master.

    The film is in development and it's possible that Woo, famous for his action choreography in films like Face-Off, Mission Impossible 2 and Red Cliff, could later board it as a director.

    Lee discussed the story in 2016 shortly after writing it, saying, "I have always been fascinated by the Chinese and Indian cultures, which are so philosophical and rich in tradition and morality. I've written countless superheroes of every nationality and every part of the world before, I've even created many heroes from other planets and galaxies, but Monkey Master will be unique in how it interweaves myth to create a modern day hero that will entertain fans across the world with his martial arts skills and unstoppable superpowers."

    Woo and Devarajan, who is the founder and CEO of Graphic India, will serve as producers for the adaptation along with Gill Champion, president of Lee's former company POW! Entertainment, and Lori Tilkin, head of production at Woo's A Better Tomorrow Films. Lee and Devarajan previously collaborated on the Indian superhero property Chakra: The Invincible, which became a series of graphic novels and three films that aired on Cartoon Network.

    The Monkey King is one of the central characters of the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, which is one of the most frequently adapted stories of traditional Chinese literature. Nearly every year there is a major Chinese film released that retells some aspect of Journey to the West's sprawling mythology.

    Woo said in a statement that he's always wanted to make a Monkey King film of his own but that he had struggled to find a fresh way into the story. "The story by Stan Lee was such a unique version of it that incorporated the mythological character's unexplored journey to India and had all the elements I enjoy in filmmaking — great characters, action and adventure," he said in a statement. "I am excited to work with Sharad and Gill to bring Stan's vision for this new superhero character to the screen."

    Added Devarajan: "Stan Lee was a mentor and friend who was one of the most influential creators of the 20th century. I am so excited to work with John Woo, Lori Tilkin and Gill Champion to honor Stan's Monkey Master creation and bring this superhero to the screen the way he always intended."



    The Hollywood Reporter
    PATRICK BRZESKI
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    I wonder how far Monkey Master was developed when Stan Lee passed.
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