AFM: easy Chaser’s ‘Cats’ & ‘White Snake’ appeal to buyers

Beijing-based mild Chaser Animation Studios — headed by means of the founder and former CEO of chinese VOD site Tudou, Gary Wong — has secured earnings for new animated aspects White Snake and Cats and Peachtopia.

Warner Bros. has boarded the latest flick, White Snake, as co-producer and holds distribution rights in China; it's in negotiations to take on the rights in different predominant territories. Directed via Amp Wong and Zhao Ji, the fable-experience in response to a popular people story about a snake who longs to reside as a human, and takes the variety of a fine looking woman. The film takes region earlier than the events of the average story and combines a love story with an epic quest. Watch the primary trailer right here.

Cats and Peachtopia (alternatively titled Cats) is set in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing and facilities on a middle-aged cat who enjoys his life in a excessive-rise condominium, and his son who is curious in regards to the backyard world and eventually leaves his at ease home to are searching for Peachotopia — a heaven for cats, the place he hopes to discover his mom. the daddy must face the perils of the outside world to find his son with the assist of a friendly Macaw. Trailer right here.

Cats premiered at Annecy and has been licensed to KMBO (France), with the intention to present a 300-monitor liberate on December 12; Viva television (U.S.), which has a deal with DirecTV and should jointly latest a confined theatrical release in the first quarter of 2019; infamous photographs (Italy), Phars movie (center East) and Mango (Vietnam).

mild Chaser's second feature, Toys and Pets (additionally accessible via All Rights) is coming into theatrical unencumber in assorted territories, together with Spain, the core East and Turkey. The studio's first CG animated adventure, the mythical buddy comedy The Door Guardians (or Little Door Gods), became picked up The Weinstein Co. in the U.S. and is accessible for streaming on Netflix as the Guardian Brothers.

[Sources: Variety, China Daily, Radii China]

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