"Shanghai Baby" Maybe Launched at Berlin in February
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Variety.com~http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953333.html?categoryid=2432&cs=1
Original Title: Arclight's after 'Shanghai' boon——Sales agent picks
up two Asian-themed pics
By PATRICK FRATER
Oz-U.S. sales agent Arclight Films has expanded the slate of
Asian-themed films to be handled through its Easternlight label. It has
picked up sales duties on "Shanghai Baby" and Kelly Hu vehicle
"Shanghai Kiss."
"Baby" is a tale of sexual liberation in modern China based on the
bestselling novel by banned novelist Zhou Wei Hui. Story follows a
Chinese woman torn between her Asian traditions and her lust for a
Western lifestyle. She also must choose between two men -- one in
Shanghai, the other in Berlin. Book sold 6 million copies and has been
translated into 34 languages.
The English-language movie, starring Bai Ling and Germany's Katja
Riemann, was helmed by Berengar Pfahl from a script penned by Margaret
Hennig and Martin Hennig, Pfahl and Wei Hui. The $10 million budget was
fully financed by Pino Curzio's Italo-German private equity operation
A.M.I. Pic is now in post.
"Kiss," helmed by Kern Konwiser and David Ren, follows an
Asian-American actor living in Los Angeles who's forced to reconsider
his roots after suddenly inheriting a house in Shanghai.
Pic, produced by aggressively expanding Bigfoot Entertainment, features
a roll call of up-and-coming Asian-American thesps including Ken Leung
("X-Men"), TV starlet Hayden Panettiere and Byron Mann.
Launched at Berlin in February, Easternlight has a slate that also
includes Ziyi Zhang starrer "Jasmine Women," recent Hong Kong pickup
"Dog Bite Dog" and Japan's "Nightmare Detective." "Kiss" is completed
and will likely receive its market preem in Berlin.