Fortissimo Movies, a movie gross sales firm based mostly in Amsterdam and Beijing, has acquired licensing rights to the upcoming Chinese language sci-fi motion movie “Escape from the twenty first Century.”
The story follows three pals who uncover they’ve the power to journey backwards and forwards 20 years by way of a sneeze. Nonetheless, the longer term will not be as vivid as they hoped, and they should tackle the duty of saving the world. The plot travels between 1999 and 2019, and the situation is Okay planet, which is similar to the earth.
The movie is directed by Li Yang (quick movie and co-director “Li’s Future”) and stars Zhang Ruoyun (“Pleasure of Life”), Zhong Chuxi (“Youth”) and Music Yang (“Silent Fury”).
The movie is produced by Desen Worldwide and will likely be marketed in mainland China by way of Enlight Photos on August 3. Fortissimo is dealing with rights for the remainder of the world exterior of mainland China.
Watch the trailer right here.
Fortissimo has been very busy on the Cannes Movie Competition, launching three new Chinese language movies, together with the crime drama “Huge Household,” the sports activities movie “The Wild One” and the animated function “The Umbrella Household.”
Lately, Fortissimo has represented quite a lot of mainland Chinese language movies, together with final yr’s cutting-edge animation “Deep Sea” directed by Tian Xiaopeng. Different credit embody “Onmyoji” and Larry Younger’s “Mountain Cry.”
Late final yr, the corporate additionally picked up director Feng Xiaogang’s “If You Are the One 3,” an replace on the favored anti-romance sequence starring Shu Qi and Ge You, in addition to Xu Haofeng’s “100 Yards,” which opens in Shanghai and Toronto in 2023 Competition and in Rotterdam in early 2024.
