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Korea Goes Chinese With THANGKA

by Todd Brown, October 2, 2007 7:53 PM

An interesting note here on what could turn out to be a very strong collaboration between South Korea and China ...

Korea's CJ Entertainment, arguably the biggest kid on the Korean film block, is partnering up with the China Film Group to produce the Korean company's first Chinese language picture, titled Thangka. Named for a Tibetan art form the film is a period martial arts piece about the spread of Chinese culture in Tibet to be scripted by Liu Hong - who just wrote Feng Xiageng's Assembley - and directed by Jacob Leung (Battle of Wits).

These pan-Asian collaborations are the wave of the future in that part of the world, so it'll be interesting to see what comes of this.