The China-US co-production involving Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios is scheduled to begin shooting in the fourth quarter of 2013.
The film will be dedicated to Jake Eberts, the producer who died earlier this month and who had been developing the project with Seven Stars.
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