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Hong Kong and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment has picked up a mandate to handle sales duties on “Lendarys,” an animated family entertainment movie that is now in production.

The film is being produced on budget of $30 million and is set for delivery in 2023. All Rights Entertainment is launching the picture for international sales at the European Film Market (EFM), the online companion to this year’s in-person Berlin Film Festival.

“Lendarys” is set in the heart of an imaginary world, where a young and funny wizard apprentice teams up with a hairy and wacky pachyderm who has become tiny, and an outlaw with a mysterious power, on a search for the wizard’s younger brother. They are accompanied by a fantastical animal called a Lendarys. However, when they find the boy’s trail, they discover he has rallied the cause of a strange maleficent creature who is trying to take over their world.

Exclusive: InventTV, the three-year-old production company behind reality series such as Southern Charm: New Orleans, Into Alaska, Bringing Up Bhabie and upcoming The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, is bolstering its executive ranks with three key hires as it expands into scripted television, live events and documentaries. The company, a subsidiary of Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman’s Los Angeles Media Fund, has tapped former Endemol Shine executive Michael Weinberg for the newly created role of President. Also joining are Jeff Marcus as Evp of Finance and Operations and Tiffany Alfaro as VP of Development. All will be based at the company’s Burbank office. Additionally, InventTV has signed its first overall deal with Dave Coulier. Under the pact, the Full House and Fuller House alum will focus on family-friendly scripted and non-scripted programming

In his new position, Weinberg will oversee the creation and development of new content for networks,...

After initially delivering the classic “Infernal Affairs” trilogy, the writers of that series, Felix Chong and Alan Mak, are back in the genre once again with another stellar undercover thriller. While Chong stays on as a writer, Mak has moved into the director’s chair alongside cinematographer Anthony Pun, which now moves the film away from the subdued drama-like leanings and instead finds itself charging headfirst into classic Hong Kong action cinema.

“Extraordinary Mission” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival

Still on edge following his mother’s death, determined cop Liu Haojun (Xuan Huang from “The Great Wall” and “The Golden Era”) is struggling to stay undercover in a high-level drug-smuggling ring owned and operated by master-criminal Cheng Yi (Xing Jiadong from “1911” and “Soldiers and Their Commanders”). Known as Lin Kai to the rest of the gang, his efforts to bring the gang down from within continually...

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1911 / Xinhai geming Trailer. Jackie Chan, Li Zhang‘s 1911 / Xinhai geming (2011) movie trailer stars Jackie Chan, Winston Chao, Jaycee Chan, Li Bing Bing, and Joan Chen. 1911 / Xinhai geming‘s plot synopsis: “ set in the beginning of the 20th century China, the country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. With ordinary citizens beginning to revolt openly, the Qing Dynasty has created a powerful, modern army (the “New Army”) to quash any rebellion. But weapons are expensive, and desperate for cash, the Qing leaders are trading anything they can get their hands on with foreign countries… and selling China’s future in the process.”

It is actually refreshing to see Chan in a different type of character role than that of some Hollywood featured,...

Bernardo Bertolucci told the story of The Last Emperor in 1987, but now Chinese filmmakers are celebrating the 1911 revolution that ended the corrupt Qing Dynasty and ushered China into the modern age from their own perspective. In 1911, Jackie Chan stars as a soldier who reluctantly takes up arms against the royal family, and Winston Chou (Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet) plays Chinese nationalist hero Sun Yat-sen. The trailer feels like a Chinese version of Pearl Harbor, what with all the explosions and blatant flag-waving. Take a look.

The war epic is one of the biggest productions ever attempted by the Chinese film industry,...