Han Pictures and Media Announces Second China Production With Oscar Intentions
US and China hedge fund and private equity investment fund manager, Dr. John Liu, CEO and lead partner in the recently established HAN Pictures and Media Corp announces its second film production, the large-scale war drama "IN THE TIMES OF LOCUSTS" with a budget of $65 million.
Beijing/Shanghai/Los Angeles/New York City , February 9, 2016 (Newswire.com) - HAN Pictures and Media Corp announces its large-scale war drama film production - "IN THE TIMES OF LOCUSTS" with an $65 million budget. A-list U.S. directors and writers are in negotiations on the production.
“IN THE TIMES OF LOCUSTS” is an untold story of the aftermath of Doolittle's Tokyo raid in 1942. When the U.S. responded to Pearl Harbor attack with a surprise bombing of Tokyo, many Chinese people saved the pilot lives and paid with their own lives in South China, and the Japanese Imperial Army took out its fury on the Chinese civilian people. That generosity shown by the Chinese would trigger a horrific retaliation by the Japanese that claimed an estimated quarter-million Chinese soldiers and civilians killed in the three-month campaign after they saved 64 airmen of the15 bombers with 75 airmen crash landing in my hometown in Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in South China, which was more than 25 times the Allied forces' casualties (9,758) on D-Day, and would prompt comparisons to the 1937-38 Rape of Nanking. Long-forgotten missionary records discovered in the archives of DePaul University for the first time shed important new light on the extent to which the Chinese suffered in the aftermath of the Doolittle raid. The trying times of the episode of history and life and death forged life-long admiration and friendships between Americans and the people of China, states Dr. Liu.
HAN Pictures and Media Corp will shoot the film with the new real-time 3D technology in China to cut post-production time and cost substantially.
HAN Pictures and Media Corp is a newly established film production and media company based in both American of United States and China，a subsidiary of the global financial conglomerate HAN Group. It is founded by Dr. John Liu, the former Citigroup Senior Executive and SAC Capital Management Senior trader and senior Managing Director, a China and US hedge fund and investment fund manager. HAN Pictures and Media Corp is a new type of entertainment and media company focused on the creative content generation and production, entertainment sector investment, agency business, and new media for online web distribution. The Company is producing with China's CCTV the television series and studio film - “EMPRESS of TANG” with a $35 million budget.
HAN Pictures current slate includes already scripted projects as well as projects in development. Some films in the slate are:
“CHINA’S INDIANA JONES” – a multiple stories action, adventure and fantasy film project. This franchise has elements of “Indiana Jones” with China’s historical stories and centered in China. The first film is under development.
“GARGANTUAN” - the first film in a 3 story science-fiction film arc. Each film has a $100 million budget also using the 3D real-time technology and will be anchored by Hollywood and China A-listers. The franchise has elements of Godzilla and San Andreas and centered in China. It may be tied-into characters from the Transformers universe in the 3rd installment if it can be worked out.
“PLANT HUNTER” - the intense retelling of a major historical story covering Westerners made the adventurous journeys to the plants gardens in dangerous Central and Western mountains forests in China to explore some precious plants, like Davidia involucrata Baill or Chinese dove tree and Entire Meconopsis for a decade, later those plants and flowers went to Europe and North American markets with huge success. The film is a drama, action, adventure movie project. The development of the project is under way.
“DEADLY STRIKE” – the intense true story on China’s high speed train development occurred in early 2000, four international high speed train companies battled bitterly in order to gain the access of Chinese high speed train market, a drama, action and crime movie project. The development of the project is under way.
“BARBARIAN” – the intense retelling of the recent stock markets crash event occurred in China’s in 2015, a drama，crime and action movie project. The development of the project is under way.
MEDIA & INDUSTRY CONTACTS:
CHINA & U.S. NEW YORK CITY
John Liu, CEO & Senior Managing Partner
(086)13022184667
Email: HANPictures@126.com
Weichat：HANCAPITAL
Skype: john.liu6302
U.S. LOS ANGELES
Lance Dow – Head of US Development.
Tel: 01(951)286-9016
Email: HANpictures.media@gmail.com
Skype: lancemoviemaker