S11 Partners Launches Chinese Film Slate With Medialink Backing; Imagine Entertainment Co-Pros
deadline.comVeteran 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.
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