China Lion Movie Distribution has acquired I Know Who You Are, the newest characteristic from veteran Chinese language director Feng Xiaogang, for the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The specialty label will launch it throughout these markets in early July — days after the movie’s mainland debut.
The deal covers all media rights, with precise dates by territory nonetheless to be set. I Know Who You Are opened in China on June 19, taking in about $9 million for third place on its first weekend.
Tailored from Zhang Ce’s 1992 novella No Regrets Monitoring — earlier the idea for a well-regarded tv sequence — the movie is a decades-spanning cat-and-mouse story set within the early years of the Individuals’s Republic. Lei Jiayin performs a grassroots police chief who turns into satisfied {that a} quiet native schoolteacher, performed by Hu Ge, is a deep-cover spy, and spends the subsequent 4 many years making an attempt to show it — a surveillance operation that slowly evolves into one thing nearer to a private relationship.
Feng is among the many most commercially profitable administrators China has produced, with credit together with Aftershock, Again to 1942, I Am Not Madame Bovary, Youth and Solely Cloud Is aware of; China Lion launched Youth in North America in 2017.
Lei not too long ago appeared in Zhang Yimou’s spy thriller Scare Out and in Peng Fei’s Take Off, which performs the New York Asian Movie Pageant subsequent month. Hu starred in Diao Yinan’s Cannes competitors title The Wild Goose Lake, reverse Gwei Lun-mei. He additionally starred in Wong Kar Wai’s acclaimed Blossoms Shanghai sequence.
China Lion picked up the movie from Damai Leisure, the studio behind each Scare Out and Pricey You. Based in 2010 and based mostly in Los Angeles, China Lion makes a speciality of releasing Chinese language-language movies in North American theaters.
