S11 Partners Launches Chinese Film Slate With Medialink Backing; Imagine Entertainment Co-Pros
11.03.2024 - 01:01
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Veteran producers Cora Yim and Benjamin Lin are launching a production company, S11 Partners, with an equity investment from Hong Kong-listed Medialink Group.
Based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the new outfit aims to develop, finance, produce and distribute original and market-driven Chinese-language content for global audiences.
The company is launching an initial slate of three films at Filmart, two of which – Mrs Killer and Oppa, I Hate You – are being co-produced with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.
Mrs. Killer, a Hong Kong-Taiwan-Malaysia co-production, is about a retired assassin-housewife forced back into action. The project is written and directed by Liao Ming-yi whose directorial debut I Weirdo was nominated in six categories at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards.
K-culture satirical comedy Oppa, I Hate You is being set up as a Taiwan-South Korea co-production with S11, Imagine Entertainment and Warner Music Group. The project is reuniting scriptwriter Liao Min Kai and script consultant Sharon Wu, who worked together on hit Taiwanese comedy Marry My Dead Body.
The slate also includes The Marriage Drive, written and directed by Hong Kong’s Lawrence Kan, whose recent feature In Broad Daylight was one of the highest-grossing local films in Hong Kong last year. His new project won the In Development Award (IDP) at last year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
Based in Hong Kong, Medialink Group is an an IP [intellectual property] management company engaged in media content distribution and brand licensing.
Yim and Lin recently worked together on crime thriller anthology series Taiwan Crime Stories, which streamed on Hulu and Disney+.
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