HONG KONG -- China-based producer Jay Rothstein said Tuesday that David Ren will direct his next project, Distance Runners.
Distance Runners, a $2.4 million co-production between Rothstein's China Venture Films and Yunnan Minority Film Studio, is the story of a Chinese ultra-marathon runner who tries to tackle a 100-mile run through the mountains of Yunnan.
"I wanted someone bilingual, experienced and who understands both cultures," Rothstein said. "I also wanted someone I felt had his heart and soul in the film. David's very passionate."
Ren, who directed Shanghai Kiss in 2007, was born in Shanghai but grew up in New York City.
For Distance Runners, Jeffrey Chu has signed on as cinematographer, with a story by Richard Trombly. (Trombly has worked as a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter.) Rothstein is working on an updated edition of the script.
Leads have not been confirmed, but Eugenia Yuan, Cheng Pei Pei and Ge You have signed on for supporting roles.
Shanghai-based Rothstein's first film, Milk and Fashion, another Sino-American co-production, will be distributed in China in June.
Distance Runners, a $2.4 million co-production between Rothstein's China Venture Films and Yunnan Minority Film Studio, is the story of a Chinese ultra-marathon runner who tries to tackle a 100-mile run through the mountains of Yunnan.
"I wanted someone bilingual, experienced and who understands both cultures," Rothstein said. "I also wanted someone I felt had his heart and soul in the film. David's very passionate."
Ren, who directed Shanghai Kiss in 2007, was born in Shanghai but grew up in New York City.
For Distance Runners, Jeffrey Chu has signed on as cinematographer, with a story by Richard Trombly. (Trombly has worked as a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter.) Rothstein is working on an updated edition of the script.
Leads have not been confirmed, but Eugenia Yuan, Cheng Pei Pei and Ge You have signed on for supporting roles.
Shanghai-based Rothstein's first film, Milk and Fashion, another Sino-American co-production, will be distributed in China in June.
- 3/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SHANGHAI -- American-Chinese co-production Milk and Fashion will be distributed in China by Shanghai-based Red Art beginning in June, the film's producer said Thursday.
An American producer and a Taiwanese director made the coming-of-age drama with money from a Japanese medical supply company.
The film cost just $1.35 million to make and producers believe it to be the first foreign co-produced Chinese-language movie.
Made with a co-production license from the Yunnan Film Studio, the film boasts a cast of American, British and Dutch actors speaking Chinese. It was filmed in southwest China's Yunnan province and in Shanghai with the hope of reaching a Chinese audience.
"A formal agreement for mainland distribution has been signed and executed," producer Jay Rothstein said. "We're scheduling to be in theaters during the month of June."
The film features Growing Pains child actor Jeremy Miller. It will screen first in Shanghai and Beijing, then move to other cities, Rothstein said. He declined to disclose the value of the deal.
An American producer and a Taiwanese director made the coming-of-age drama with money from a Japanese medical supply company.
The film cost just $1.35 million to make and producers believe it to be the first foreign co-produced Chinese-language movie.
Made with a co-production license from the Yunnan Film Studio, the film boasts a cast of American, British and Dutch actors speaking Chinese. It was filmed in southwest China's Yunnan province and in Shanghai with the hope of reaching a Chinese audience.
"A formal agreement for mainland distribution has been signed and executed," producer Jay Rothstein said. "We're scheduling to be in theaters during the month of June."
The film features Growing Pains child actor Jeremy Miller. It will screen first in Shanghai and Beijing, then move to other cities, Rothstein said. He declined to disclose the value of the deal.
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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