filmart 2017

Tiger Chen Sci-Fi, KUNG FU TRAVELER, Gets A U.S. Release

Director Xian Feng’s martial arts sci-fi, Kung Fu Traveler, reportedly earned a whopping 20 million views in its streaming release last year. It’s great news for Tiger Chen who currently has a full plate ahead of him with the upcoming production of ensemble action thriller, Triple Threat, and already with a few lead roles under his belt for that matter, namely the 2013 kung fu drama, Man Of Tai Chi. This brings us back to Kung Fu Traveler which is now the subject of acquisition news hailing from the first day at Filmart that Crimson Entertainment, in association with Hannover House will release the film in North America beginning this summer. Chen is joined by actress Wang Zhi in a story of a Chinese military general who travels back in time to find a way to prevent an alien takeover of Earth. via THR: “Tiger Chen is an incredible martial […]

Mei Ah Announces DRAGON GATE ZOMBIE INN With Wilson Yip To Direct

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Wilson Yip is set to direct martial arts zombie horror hybrid, Dragon Gate Zombie Inn, currently in pre-production with Soi Cheang producing. Mei Ah Entertainment has included the film in its Filmart slate this week with its desert-set tale of fortress-like Dragon Inn which becomes ground zero for a zombie invasion. There aren’t any casting announcements just yet while the film may set course for 2018, following their previous work on Yip’s upcoming crime pic, Paradox, which Cheang produced with Paco Wong. Mei Ah is also selling alien sci-fi, Marauder which Yip will produce and Cheang will direct once the latter wraps The Monkey King 3 for Filmko. Yip’s latest, Paradox, also made the rounds at Filmart with its first trailer, starring Louis Koo, Tony Jaa and Chris Collins for Bravos Pictures. The filmmaker is also expect to helm an upcoming fourth installment of the hit semi-biographical Ip Man saga starring Donnie […]

Sammo Hung Hails THE RETURN OF THE LUCKY STARS At Filmart!

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Having recently returned to the fray with his latest helmer, My Beloved Bodyguard and once more in front of the camera with the forthcoming God Of War among others, action legend Sammo Hung took to Filmart to announce his latest venture into international sales via Sammo Hung Films. The new banner includes a slate of exciting projects and the biggest of them currently stands with ensemble revival, The Return Of The Lucky Stars, according to news forwarded by AMP. The film series became a signature establishment in Hong Kong action movies hailing from Golden Harvest with Winners & Sinners at first with Hung starring as one of a ragtag group of ex-cons and a beautiful woman who open up a clean-up company and find themselves in the throes of gangsters. Hung topped the original crowd next to the likes of Richard Ng, John Sham, Charlie Chin and Stanley Fung for […]