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Magic Fair, a Miami-Paris based indie sales company and Hong Kong- and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment have launched rights sales on upcoming feature animation “Pigsy,” directed by Chiu Li-Wei (“Barkley”) during the Cannes Film Festival’s Marche du Film.

The film is a reimagining of the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West.” The story follows a self-absorbed and lazy pig on a journey to lasting happiness. Set in a distant future, the film sees Pigsy embark on a deceitful quest for a better life, only to find that true happiness may be closer than he thinks.

The production has recently added Taiwanese stars Greg Han, Liu Kuan-Ting, Harlem Yu, Tuo Tsung-Hua, Chung Hsin-Ling, Ivy Shao, Waa Wei and K.R. Bros. The film is to be completed in time for release at Chinese New Year in early 2024. Production is by the Netherland’s studio Submarine with Taiwan’s Greener Grass (“GrX”) and Studio2.

“Mr. and Ms. Single” is the latest offering from Hong Kong director Patrick Kong, and is another in his ongoing line of modern Chinese urban romances, following the likes of “Marriage with a Liar”, “Love is Not All Around” and others. The film was his 10th, and both his first made especially for the lucrative Mainland market, and the first which he didn’t actually write himself, being based on a popular stage play, with a script from original writer Ha Zhi Chao and Ru Xiao Guo. The film does represent Kong’s next step up the commercial cinema ladder, and appropriately sees him bringing together an impressive big name cast, including popular actor singer Eason Chan (recently in “Lover’s Discourse”), Rene Liu (“Hot Summer Days”), Bai Bing (“Let the Bullets Fly”) and Harlem Yu (“Butterfly Lovers”). The plot covers some familiar rom-com territory, with Eason Chan as the rather dowdy Cui Minguo,...