Distribution Workshop, the new Hong Kong-based sales outfit founded by Nansun Shi and Jeffrey Chan, has picked up two new titles - Alan Mak and Felix Chong's Overheard and Snowfall In Taipei from Chinese director Huo Jianqi.

Produced by Derek Yee, whose credits as director include Protege and One Nite In Mongkok, Overheard is a thriller about three cops conducting surveillance on a listed company. Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu head the cast of the film which is currently in production

Mak and Chong were respectively co-director and scriptwriter of the Infernal Affairs trilogy.

Romantic drama Snowfall In Taipei, also in production, stars Chen Bolin (Kung Fu Dunk), Tong Yao and Tony Yang.

The two titles join previously-announced Tokyo-set action title Rain Fall, directed by Max Mannix and starring Gary Oldman and Kippei Shiina, and Chinese sleeper hit Almost Perfect, on the company's slate.

Distribution Workshop is a joint venture between Shi and Chan and Beijing-based Bona International Film Group, which is China's biggest independent distributor. Former Mandarin Films executive Virginia Leung heads up sales.

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