Arthouse icon Wong Kar-wai to make 1st movie for Alibaba PicturesJanuary 12, 2015 - 16:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Arthouse icon Wong Kar-wai will produce his first movie for Alibaba Pictures group, the film production arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Variety said. The film, “Bai Du Ren” (which translates as “Ferryman”), will be written and directed by Chinese novelist Zhang Jiajia as an adaptation of his own short story. The picture will star Wong regular Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The film is also the first to be greenlighted by Alibaba Pictures Group since the stock-market-listed Chinavision was acquired by Alibaba and renamed. The company revealed that it has also acquired international rights to Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Wolf Totem” and the right to adapt “My Fair Princess.” Prior to becoming Alibaba Pictures Group, Chinavision struck priority investment deals with Wong’s Block 2 company, Peter Chan Ho-sun’s We Pictures and with Stephen Chow. A recent report showed that Alibaba Pictures Group had paid RMB50 million for Chow to pitch five projects, all of which it had turned down. Photo: China Daily Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |