Mario Andreacchio.s Ampco Studios has clinched financing and production deals with Chinese entities for two films and created a China co-production film fund with an initial capital of $15 million.
The films are Trying the Knot, a romantic comedy from director Nadia Tass and producer-writer David Parker, and Shimalaya, a WW2 action/adventure from China/Taiwan director Roy Chin.
The deals were signed last week during an Australian trade mission to China attended by Trade Minister Andrew Robb.
Due to start shooting in July, Tying the Knot centres on an Australian guy who, three days before he is due to marry a Chinese girl, is thrown into jail after being wrongly accused of robbing a bank.
Parker wrote the script, inspired by a true incident in the 1970s. It.s a co-production between Parker and Tass. Cascade Films, Ampco Studios and Shanghai Film and Video Technology Company.
The producers are...
The films are Trying the Knot, a romantic comedy from director Nadia Tass and producer-writer David Parker, and Shimalaya, a WW2 action/adventure from China/Taiwan director Roy Chin.
The deals were signed last week during an Australian trade mission to China attended by Trade Minister Andrew Robb.
Due to start shooting in July, Tying the Knot centres on an Australian guy who, three days before he is due to marry a Chinese girl, is thrown into jail after being wrongly accused of robbing a bank.
Parker wrote the script, inspired by a true incident in the 1970s. It.s a co-production between Parker and Tass. Cascade Films, Ampco Studios and Shanghai Film and Video Technology Company.
The producers are...
- 4/13/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
SHANGHAI -- Milk and Fashion producer Jay Rothstein is aiming to bring his high-profile, Chinese-produced film to U.S. audiences and also to sign a distribution deal for it to screen in major cities around China "within weeks."
The film first began to gain media attention in the U.S. last year when Jeremy Miller, former child star of the TV series Growing Pains, was cast in the project. Miller and the rest of the American, British, and Dutch cast all speak Chinese in the film. Miller is hugely popular with Chinese TV audiences, for whom Growing Pains was a big hit.
A $1.4 million U.S.-China-Japan co-production with Taiwanese television director Roy Chin, Fashion is being pitched by Rothstein as the Billy Elliot-esque story of Tyler, a white, Chinese-speaking teenage ballet dancer nicknamed Milk, who falls in love with a Chinese ballerina nicknamed Fashion.
The film had a highly publicized premiere here Thursday, with Rothstein and Chin toasting the news that the film had received distribution permission from the Chinese government two weeks ago at the end of a six-month-long negotiating process.
The film first began to gain media attention in the U.S. last year when Jeremy Miller, former child star of the TV series Growing Pains, was cast in the project. Miller and the rest of the American, British, and Dutch cast all speak Chinese in the film. Miller is hugely popular with Chinese TV audiences, for whom Growing Pains was a big hit.
A $1.4 million U.S.-China-Japan co-production with Taiwanese television director Roy Chin, Fashion is being pitched by Rothstein as the Billy Elliot-esque story of Tyler, a white, Chinese-speaking teenage ballet dancer nicknamed Milk, who falls in love with a Chinese ballerina nicknamed Fashion.
The film had a highly publicized premiere here Thursday, with Rothstein and Chin toasting the news that the film had received distribution permission from the Chinese government two weeks ago at the end of a six-month-long negotiating process.
- 1/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BEIJING -- Chinese fans of Growing Pains star Jeremy Miller never forgot the young American from the hit 1990s TV show, one of the few imported series allowed into the country back then. So when Miller, now 31, recently returned to China to make a unique new movie he was besieged by fans and media.
The Chinese production, Milk and Fashion, marked a return to acting for Miller, who had gone on to study cooking and open his own catering firm. The production also attracted a fair amount of attention locally because it is the first to include Chinese-speaking Caucasians in lead roles.
A $1.4 million U.S.-China-Japan co-production by Taiwanese television director Roy Chin, Fashion is being pitched by its Shanghai-based American producer Jay Rothstein as the " 'Billy Elliot'-esque" story of Tyler, a white, Chinese-speaking teenage ballet dancer nicknamed Milk who falls in love with a Chinese ballerina nicknamed Fashion.
Rothstein's son Kyle plays Tyler (Milk), who gets his moniker from his fondness for milk.
The Chinese production, Milk and Fashion, marked a return to acting for Miller, who had gone on to study cooking and open his own catering firm. The production also attracted a fair amount of attention locally because it is the first to include Chinese-speaking Caucasians in lead roles.
A $1.4 million U.S.-China-Japan co-production by Taiwanese television director Roy Chin, Fashion is being pitched by its Shanghai-based American producer Jay Rothstein as the " 'Billy Elliot'-esque" story of Tyler, a white, Chinese-speaking teenage ballet dancer nicknamed Milk who falls in love with a Chinese ballerina nicknamed Fashion.
Rothstein's son Kyle plays Tyler (Milk), who gets his moniker from his fondness for milk.
- 4/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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