Zentropa Joins Forces With China’s Wd Pictures (Exclusive)

Rikke Ennis, the boss of leading Scandinavian banner TrustNordisk and an executive at Danish powerhouse Zentropa, has joined forces with Beijing Wd Pictures, a full-service film company, to co-produce films for Chinese and international audiences.Zentropa China, the banner Ennis created in Dec.

2015, has formed a non-exclusive partnership with Bejing Wd Pictures, a fledgling film outfit launched three years ago by Leo Liu and Gao Qun, respectively the former president and executive vice president of ChinaVision Media Group, the company that was sold to Alibaba to become Alibaba Pictures.Wd Pictures’s co-production credits include Steven Chow’s “Journey into the West,” “Skptrace” with Jacky Chan and Johnny Knoxville and “Saving Mr.

Wu” starring Andy Lau.

These three movies generated Rmb 1.4 billion, Rmb 850 million and Rmb 200 million at the box-office, respectivelyEnnis said Bejing Wd Pictures, which specializes in co-producing Chinese remakes as well as TV drama series intended for the Chinese and international audiences, is the ideal

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