Ambitious Chinese studio Road Pictures has launched a $50 million production fund that it will use to seed a slate of Hollywood-China co-venture movies. The company will back “US 66,” an action comedy written by Roger Avary that will be produced in partnership with Greg Shapiro’s Kingsgate Films (“The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty”). “The concept behind ‘US […]
Jason Statham, the action star of movies including “Furious 7,” will play the lead in a project backed by China’s Road Pictures, in the latest example of how the country’s filmmakers are reaching out to a global audience. Statham will play a British expatriate in Hong Kong, on the run with a female Chinese agent, […]
Jason Statham will star in an untitled action-thriller set in Hong Kong with shooting taking place in fall 2016. The project is a production between Jason Statham, Steven Chasman’s SJ Pictures and China-based Road Pictures. Written by Kurt Wimmer, the movie is centered around an expatriate Brit in Hong Kong who goes on the run with a […]
