Asian Film Fund From Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein said last Wednesday they have launched a US$285mil (RM980mil) movie fund that will invest in Asian-themed projects.
One of the projects will be an action film about the Chinese folk heroine Hua Mulan, and another a remake of the 1954 Akira Kurosawa classic The Seven Samurai, New York-based The Weinstein Co said in a statement.
Chinese media reported earlier that actress Zhang Ziyi has signed on for the two projects.
The movie company founded by the Weinstein brothers also said it has invested in The Forbidden Kingdom, the first movie featuring both Jackie Chan and Jet Li, which is currently filming in China.
The Weinstein Co said it hopes to take advantage of lower costs by shooting in Asia while adding a “Western sensibility” to produce movies that appeal to both Asian and Western markets.
It said the Asian film fund aims to either produce or buy the rights to 21 movie productions and 10 straight-to-video productions that will be released through its Dragon Dynasty label, which director Quentin Tarantino will help manage. Tarantino is known for his interest in Hong Kong films.
Other Asian projects include an untitled movie starring Thai action star Tony Jaa; Shanghai, an action movie about an American who investigates his friend’s death in World War II-era Japanese-occupied Shanghai; and three other action films made by TV series 24 producer Tony Krantz and Hong Kong director Andrew Lau.
The Weinstein Co did not announce casting choices for its planned projects, but Chinese website Sina.com reported earlier that Zhang has signed on for Mulan and the remake of The Seven Samurai.
The Weinstein Co said it will co-release The Forbidden Kingdom with Lionsgate in the United States, Britain, Spain, France and Latin America.
The company, which has also set up a similar Latin American film fund, didn’t say if the US$285mil has been completely raised.
The Weinstein brothers founded Miramax, which became part of the independent film movement in the 1990s and produced several high-grossing movies including Chicago. The Walt Disney Co bought Miramax in the early 1990s, but the Weinstein brothers continued to run the studio until 2005, when they left to form The Weinstein Co. – AP
source : Mass Media
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The Minority Races need to stick together Asians,Blacks,Indians,Hispanics,Latinos,
we all have Exotic Features, Culture,Black or Dark Eyes, and Black or Dark Hair, not to mention only Minority Races have different Skin Tones.
The White (caucasian) people in the Unites States are very jealous of our Minority Races because we have Culture,Different Skin Tones,and Dark hair and Dark Eyes.
White people have no Culture and they have different color hair and different color eyes,and they only have white skin. They have to tan to get darker skin tone and it fades away white people turn back white. That’s why white people try to have babies by the Minority Races so they kids can have skin tones, and better features.
White people are the ugliest people in the world there trying to divide our Minority Race up so we want be together lets stop this white crackers now.
Don’t let White Americans come to China and make Asian Movies they just want to take over and but white people as the main actor in Asian movies so they can out shine the Asians and make Asians look bad. Trust me I know how white Americans work be very careful of white people in the Asian Countries also All White People Are Pure Evil.
White people think they rule the world but they don’t lets not let them break up our Cultures by marring white people or having babies by white people let them stick with there own nasty white race and have only nasty skinned white babies with ugly features and different color hair, and different color eyes.
White people just want to own everything in the world today Don’t let them looser come to the Asian Countries and make Movies.