“Dear You,” the Teochew-dialect household drama that has grow to be one in all China’s largest theatrical tales of 2026, is heading to North America, Australia and New Zealand after CMC Pictures secured the theatrical distribution rights.
The movie opens in Australia and New Zealand on June 25, adopted by a North America launch on June 26.
The acquisition extends the worldwide attain of a movie that has grow to be a word-of-mouth phenomenon within the Center Kingdom. Opening to only $557,000 on its first day in Chinese language cinemas, “Dear You” has since gathered greater than $251 million on the native field workplace.
Filmed primarily within the Teochew dialect, the drama is rooted within the cultural historical past of qiaopi – the letters and remittances exchanged between abroad Chinese language migrants and the households they left behind. The story weaves collectively themes of migration, reminiscence and intergenerational belonging, and was produced on a modest funds with no main stars or spectacle to drive ticket gross sales.
The image stars Li Sitong, Wang Yantong, Wu Shaoqing, Zheng Runqi and Wang Xiaohui, with Thai actor Usha Seamkhum additionally showing.
CMC Photos, one of many main worldwide distributors of Chinese language-language movies and the most important worldwide theatrical distribution platform for Chinese language cinema, has beforehand dealt with the abroad releases of greater than 120 titles. Its catalog contains “The Wandering Earth” collection, the “Ne Zha” collection, the “Detective Chinatown” collection, “Successor,” “Lost in the Stars” and the “Ip Man” collection.
The CMC deal follows a separate acquisition by Trinity CineAsia overlaying the U.Okay., Eire and France, whereas the primary wave of worldwide territories orchestrated by Damai Leisure takes in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei from June 18.
