Invincible Dragon

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I'm guessing this was at Cannes too.

'Ip Man' spin-off heading to UK, North America
21 May, 2017 | By Liz Shackleton

EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA also scores key deals for Invincible Dragon.

Well Go USA has swooped on North American and UK rights to two Pegasus Motion Pictures’ titles - Ip Man: Cheung Tin Chi, a spin-off of the blockbuster Ip Man series, and Fruit Chan’s action drama Invincible Dragon.

Ip Man: Cheung Tin Chi, which is currently in pre-production, also went to KSM for Germany, Kidarient for South Korea, and Conquest Film for Latin America.

Directed by Yuen Woo-ping, the $28m film follows the character played by Zhang Jin in the Ip Man martial arts series, and also stars Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh and Tony Jaa.

Well Go USA also took Australia and New Zealand rights to Invincible Dragon, which also stars Zhang along with Anderson Silva, Stephy Tang and Kevin Cheng.

Pegasus also sold the film to KSM for Germany, Kidarient for South Korea, and Conquest Film for Latin America.

Currently in post-production, Invincible Dragon follows an undercover agent who clashes with a Macau detective and US army veteran. Delivery is scheduled for 2018.

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I've been trying to think of how best to present this because it's dense. I decided to present the full list here on the Chollywood rising thread and partial lists to start new indie threads for the titles that look martially interesting or are relevant to other threads.

AFM 2018: The buzz titles from Hong Kong and China
BY LIZ SHACKLETON 2 NOVEMBER 2018

Despite dipping box office and a censorship process slowing up the production pipeline, there are some knockout titles to get excited about for Chinese New Year.


SOURCE: WANDA PICTURES
‘AIRPOCALYPSE’

Mainland China’s film industry is going through a turbulent period. Despite the success of Bona Film Group’s Project Gutenberg, which grossed nearly $160m over the National Day holidays, box office was on a downward trend in October 2018 compared to the previous year. In addition, the censorship process has slowed following the Chinese authorities’ overhaul of their regulatory infrastructure and the government’s recent request that talent and production companies pay their back taxes has sent the industry into a spin.

As a result, production is expected to slow down in the last quarter of this year, which could result in a shortage of big titles in the second half of 2019, but there is still a large volume of films in production and post-production that are on offer at AFM. Big titles scheduled for release before the end of the year include Wanda Pictures’ fantasy drama Airpocalypse and Huayi Brothers’ action adventure Mojin: The Worm Valley.

Although it is still early days for scheduling, films jostling for release during the peak Chinese New Year holiday period in February 2019 include Mega-Vision Project Workshop’s Enter The Fat Dragon, starring Donnie Yen; Emperor Motion Pictures’ Integrity, directed by Alan Mak and starring Sean Lau and Nick Cheung; and Jackie Chan’s The Knight Of Shadows: Between Yin And Yang.

Invincible Dragon - dir Fruit Chan
Max Zhang (Ip Man 3) and mixed martial-arts expert Anderson Silva star in Fruit Chan’s $12m action film about an undercover agent who helps the police solve mysterious cases, but clashes with a Macau detective and a US army veteran with a secret link to his past. Scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2019, the film also features behind-the-scenes talent such as DoP Cheng Siu Keung (Election) and action director Stephen Tung Wei (Operation Mekong).
Contact: Kat Yeung, Mandarin Motion Pictures

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