Industry heavyweight CJ Entertainment's President KIM Joo-sung has unveiled the first film project partnership with China Film Group Corp (CFGC), easily the largest movie group in China. The announcement follows on the heels of memorandum of understanding between the two companies, signed in June of 2007. The Korea-China co-production will be a martial arts epic called Thangka, based on a Tibetan Buddhist painting of the same name.
The film is about a Tang Dynasty princess who was married to a Tibetan king and introduced Chinese culture in Tibet. It will be directed by
Jacob Chang ("
A Battle of Wits)" from a script by Liu Heng, whose Assembly is o...
MoreCJ Entertainment has agreed to launch a joint project with China.
The president of CJ says that he signed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing with the chief of China's largest film agency, the China Film Group, on the jointly invested production of the film 'Thangka' and another project aimed at fostering young Chinese filmmakers.
The film is about a historical Tang dynasty princess married to a Tibetan king who introduced Chinese culture to Tibet.
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Ahn Seong-gi stars opposite Hong Kong star
Andy Lau in the epic "
A Battle of Wits". The film was released in China about a month before the end of 2006, but still managed to become the most successful film at the box office in the second part of the year. The film also enjoys commercial and critical success in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Battle of Wits is a co-production between Korea, Hong Kong, China and Japan. Besides AHN, Korean contributions to the project are made by the actor
Choi Si-won and the studio Boram Entertainment. CJ Entertainment distributes the film in Korea from January 11.
Ahn Seong-gi received favorable criticism from the Chinese...
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