Chinese entertainment conglomerate Huace Group and Arclight Films have signed a strategic alliance for a multi-faceted $300 million feature film collaboration.
Gary Hamilton’s Arclight Films will launch global sales efforts on Red Billabong, an action-adventure about two brothers who discover old secrets and family ties in the Outback, at the AFM in November.
Li Bingbing will play the lead in Nest, writer-director Kimble Rendall’s 3D sci-fi thriller which starts production in Queensland next month.
Mark Lazarus is departing as a drama investment manager at Screen Australia to join Arclight Films as head of creative and acquisitions in Australia.
When Screen Australia funded the development of the thriller Jungle in 2011, the Spierig brothers were attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with Justin Monjo.
The American Film Market was hardly a hive of activity for Australian distributors but a reasonable number of deals were signed or are about to close.
Arclight Films, one of the world's leading independent film sales companies with offices in Los Angeles, Sydney, Hong Kong and Toronto, announces the opening of its Beijing office.
The follow-up to the shark-in-a-flooded -supermarket saga previously known as Bait 2 has been retitled Deep Water.