Easternlight Films is an exciting new label devoted to showcasing the best in Asian cinema.
Easternlight Films, launched in Hong Kong in 2006, is a sales and production entity exclusively spotlighting the booming Asian film industry. The division is helmed by Managing Director Ying Ye.
With films from some of the world's most important contemporary filmmakers to works by new artists making their debut, the Easternlight Films label encompasses production, sales, marketing and distribution of Asian films across all genres and from all Asian territories. New titles include Legendary Assassin starring up and coming martial arts star Wu Jing, and Mulan, the long awaited epic live action adaptation of the beloved, world renowned Chinese adventure story.
QUICK CONTACTS
- Gary Hamilton
Managing Director
gary@arclightfilms.com - Ying Ye
Managing Director,
Easternlight Films
ying@arclightfilms.com - Chris Perry
VP Sales Operations
chris@arclightfilms.com
NEWSLETTER SIGNUP
Easternlight sharpens 14 Blades with Visualizer
Arclight Films' Asian division Easternlight is partnering with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Productions and the Shanghai Film Group to co-produce $20m martial arts action title 14 Blades.
Scheduled to start shooting in China on May 16, the film will be directed by Daniel Lee and star Donnie Yen and Vicky Zhao Wei. Visualizer's Susanna Tsang is producing.
Scripted by Lee and Abe Kwong, the story is set six hundred years ago and revolves around a Chinese intelligence agency which trains street orphans to become special agents who are licensed to kill. Read more >
Easternlight Films buys rights to Future X-Cops
Arclight Films' Asian division, Easternlight Films, has acquired world rights excluding Hong Kong, China and Taiwan to sci-fi action film Future X-Cops, starring Andy Lau.
Directed by Wong Jing, the film is being produced by China Film Group, Taiwan's Scholar Multimedia and Mega-Vision Pictures of Hong Kong. Tony Siu-tung Ching (Hero) will create and direct stunts and choreography for the film.
The film's story revolves around a corporate conspiracy targeting a doctor who has created a new technology which threatens the corporation's monopoly on the city's energy resources. Read more >
Easternlight picks up international rights to Champions
Arclight Films' Easternlight division will handle international sales, excluding certain Asian territories, to recently completed martial arts action epic Champions, produced by Hong Kong-based Sundream Motion Pictures.
The film, which is directed by veteran filmmaker and Sundream president Tsui Siuming, centres on the Chinese martial arts team that participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Tsui also produced the film with Sundream's Amy Li and Tom Cheung. Dicky Cheung heads the cast along with Xie Miao, Priscilla Wong and Debbie Goh. Sundream also recently produced Zhang Yibai's Lost Indulgence, which screened at Tribeca earlier this year, and was a co-producer on Yu Lik-wai's Venice competition title Plastic City. Read more >
