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TUESDAY, MARCH 20 2018 DAY 2 AT FILMART www.ScreenDaily.com Stand 1A-B19 Editorial +852 2582 8958 Advertising +1 213 447 5120 TUESDAY, MARCH 20 2018 TODAY DAY 2 AT FILMART Girls Always Happy, review, p8 REVIEW www.ScreenDaily.com Stand 1A-B19 Editorial +852 2582 8958 Advertising +1 213 447 5120 Girls Always Happy Chinese debut lays bare a complex mother-daughter relationship Jack Neo » Page 8 iQiyi launches dramatic FEATURE heads mm2’s Korea hot projects The latest work from the directors gala slate of Inside Men, The Throne and push as TV series travel The Whistleblower BY SILVIA WONG » Page 12 Celebrating its 10th anniversary, BY LIZ SHACKLETON Hsieh Hsin-ying (Love At Seventeen) Burning Ice, as well as Youku’s Day Singapore’s mm2 Entertainment Chinese streaming giant iQiyi is star in Meet Me @ 1006, which fol- And Night. iQiyi has also sold SCREENINGS presents an extended slate of 24 launching four new series at lows a lawyer who fi nds a strange shows to US platform Dramafever, What’s on at Filmart regional fi lms at Filmart, including Filmart today, tapping into the woman in his apartment at the Korea’s CJ E&M, Malaysia’s Astro, » Page 30 a trio of new titles co-produced trend for Chinese-language TV same time every night, while Jasper Singapore’s StarHub and Hong with Turner Asia Pacifi c. drama to fi nd an audience overseas. Liu (When I See You Again) stars in Kong’s TVB. Taking the spotlight is Killer Not The four 24x45-minute series — Plant Goddess about a music execu- “In the past, costume dramas Stupid, Jack Neo’s fi rst fi lm set out- Meet Me @ 1006, Befriend, Plant tive stranded in a rural village. from TV stations have been the Mei Ah taps side Singapore and Malaysia. Film- Goddess and Re-play — are the fi rst Chinese TV dramas are gaining most popular genre for overseas ing began last week in Taiwan with to be produced by iQiyi’s Taiwan a higher international profile as markets, but iQiyi is trying to intro- into Keyboard popular Taiwanese actors Jay Shih production team. The shows fea- season runs become shorter and duce new genres such as youth and Amber An. Neo is Singapore’s ture leading Taiwanese film and budgets and production values drama, fantasy and adventure,” Warriors most commercially successful TV actors, such as Guo Shu-yao increase. Streaming platforms said iQiyi sales director Bryce Tsao. director, known for his I Not Stupid (The Teenage Psychic), who stars such as iQiyi, Youku Tudou and iQiyi’s new dramas will stream BY LIZ SHACKLETON and Ah Boys To Men franchises. in Befriend about a debt collector Tencent have driven expansion by on the company’s platforms in Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertain- Last year, mm2 entered into a who helps people solve relation- experimenting with new genres Taiwan and China as well as on ment unveiled a slate of new pro- fi ve-picture deal with Turner. The ship confl icts. and storylines. Netflix recently Taiwanese cable channels TTV jects at Filmart yesterday, other two Turner projects at Li Guo-yi (In A Good Way) and acquired iQiyi’s Tientsin Mystic and and EBC. including Michael Sit’s Keyboard Filmart are Ong Kuo Sin’s Taiwan- Warriors, starring Stephy Tang and set road movie 1 Headlight and Grace Chan. Currently in post-pro- Kethsvin Chee’s Hello! Tapir, a live- duction, the fi lm is based on a true action/CG-hybrid fantasy drama. event in Hong Kong in 2014 when an armoured vehicle spilled large bundles of cash in a busy street. The slate includes an as-yet-unti- Wide House tled romantic drama, produced by Joe Ma and starring Niki Chow and plays Piano, Ron Ng. The company is also sell- Waldheim Waltz ing two titles from Taiwanese fi lm- makers: Wei Te-sheng’s drama New France’s Wide House has Turn, starring Cherry Ngan, and an announced a raft of deals on as-yet-untitled romance directed by documentaries Renzo Piano, Cheng Hsiao-tse (Miao Miao) and The Architect Of Light and produced by Jet Tone Films. The Waldheim Waltz. Renzo Piano, The Architect Of Light, acclaimed Spanish (From left) EMP group chairman filmmaker Carlos Saura’s Albert Yeung, actor Nick Cheung and fi lmmaker Dante Lam WME IMG China documentary on the architect behind the New York Times snags Wong building and the Pompidou Former Le Vision Pictures Centre, has sold to Hong Kong Dante Lam pair tops Emperor pipeline executive Ronan Wong has joined (Edko), Italy (I Wonder) and Joint BY SILVIA WONG WME IMG China as vice president, Entertainment (Taiwan). of military action fi lms primarily for thriller Crossfire will see Donnie Austrian filmmaker Ruth Operation Red Sea director Dante the mainland Chinese market — Yen play a former policeman who film and TV, based in Beijing. He Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz, Lam made a surprise appearance Operation Mekong and Operation travels to South America to rescue will be helping the agency ramp winner of the Berlinale’s Glashutte at Emperor Motion Pictures’ Red Sea, which is China’s second his kidnapped wife. The sequel to up its involvement in developing, Original Documentary Award, sold (EMP) media launch, plugging biggest film ever — Lam further 77 Heartbreaks — 77 Heartburns — investing in and distributing to North America (Menemsha two projects. revealed that his second new project reteams director Herman Yau with Chinese-language film and TV Films) and ex-Yugoslavia On stage with his producer is likely to be set in his hometown actors Charlene Choi, Pakho Chau content, including sales to (Tricontinental). It explores how Candy Leung and the company’s Hong Kong and star his Unbeatable and Michelle Wai. China’s digital platforms. former UN secretary general Kurt group chairman Albert Yeung, Lam actor Nick Cheung. Choi is also in Wai Kar Fai’s Cold Wong was previously general Waldheim’s wartime past was said his next project will again be set Lam’s projects aside, EMP Detective, Calvin Poon’s thriller manager, international uncovered after he announced his on the sea, a mega-budget project unveiled seven new titles. Crime Fatal Visit and Tsang Tsui Shan’s co-production and distribution at bid for the Austrian presidency. co-produced by EMP and China’s thriller Integrity will be the fi rst part The Lady Improper. Rounding out Beijing-based Le Vision. Jean Noh state-run China Central Television of a trilogy directed and written by the slate is Benny Lau’s romance Liz Shackleton (CCTV). After having made a couple Alan Mak. Benny Chan’s action When Sun Meets Moon. NEWS Celestial Tiger, Evolutionary Mega-Vision Mars charges Battery moves Out Of renew tie-up BY JEAN NOH The Shadows Pan-Asian broadcaster Celestial Russia’s Mars Media Entertain- Tiger Entertainment (CTE) has ment has sold Kirill Belevich’s BY JEAN NOH renewed its exclusive, multi-year Second World War drama Battery UK-based Evolutionary Films has output deal with Hong Kong’s Number One (Ednichka) to Japan sold Australian horror thriller Out Mega-Vision Project Workshop (Inter Film) and South Korea Of The Shadows to China (Virtual (MVP). Under the terms of the (Scene & Sound). The company Cinema) and North America (Blue deal, CTE has first and exclusive is in negotiations to lock a deal Fox Entertainment). Evolutionary pay-TV rights, along with pay- with China. has also taken UK rights and is per-view, video-on-demand and Starring Andrey Merzlikin and planning to release the film day- over-the-top rights, to MVP’s upcoming movies in Malaysia, Mikhail Yevlanov, Battery Number and-date in that territory when Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore One is based on an autobiographi- Blue Fox Entertainment releases it and the Philippines. cal story by Second World War in North America. Titles that are covered by the veteran and writer Alexander Directed by Dee McLachlan, the deal include two upcoming Nikolaev. film stars Goran D Kleut (Gods Of action pics starring Donnie Yen: The film takes place in August Egypt), Jake Ryan (The Great Enter The Fat Dragon, directed 1944 when Soviet troops are mov- Battery Number One Gatsby) and Lisa Chappell. A detec- by Kenji Tanigaki, and Kam Kar ing through eastern Poland. tive and his pregnant wife seek the Wai’s Big Brother. The deal also Under orders to ensure safe pas- Mars Media is also launching Russia. The Perfect Ones is in help of a renegade demonologist includes gangland drama sage for the army over a bridge international sales on high- post-production for release later when they find their dream house Chasing The Dragon, starring near an abandoned monastery, concept production The Perfect this year. holds some horrific secrets. Yen and Andy Lau, which Lieutenant Egorov and his battal- Ones, directed by Kirill Pletnev The company is also selling Evolutionary has also closed a grossed $87m in China last year. ion discover a makeshift orphan- (Light Up!). When a young man Second World War film T-34, deal with Fox Networks Group Based in Hong Kong, CTE age for deaf-mute children hiding dies leaving behind a wife and which it is marketing as “Fast & Asia to broadcast family filmWho operates pan-Asian TV channels in the monastery with their girlfriend, they start to receive Furious on tanks”. The film is set Killed Nelson Nutmeg? across the including Celestial Movies, cHK, Kix, Thrill and Celestial teacher Eve. They are faced with mysterious text messages on for wide release in Russia on continent. The film is about four Classic Movies.