EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Shanghai and Los Angeles-based manufacturing, distribution and funding firm Elementary Movies for illustration.
Based by Mark Gao in 2008, Elementary Movies was certainly one of China’s largest patrons earlier than the pandemic, releasing movies together with American Hustle, Limitless, Lucy and the Taken and Transporter franchises.
The corporate acquired a major minority share in Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp in 2016, releasing the French studio’s titles in China, in addition to co-producing movies, together with the reboot of the Transporter sequence and fantasy epic, Valerian And The Metropolis Of A Thousand Planets.
UTA will present strategic help in increasing Elementary’s partnerships throughout movie manufacturing and distribution, in addition to figuring out international IP, new enterprise and expertise funding alternatives.
Elementary is releasing EuropaCorp’s upcoming motion thriller, A Weekend In Taipei (aka Weekend Escape Mission), starring Luke Evans and Gwei Lun-mei, in China this summer season.
Commenting on the partnership with UTA, Gao stated: “UTA’s forward-thinking and international contacts make it the proper companion for our firm on this subsequent stage of our growth.”
UTA will work carefully with Gao and Elementary CEO Ivy Hua throughout the corporate’s
two core enterprise arms of leisure manufacturing and funding. The U.S. company may also help the corporate’s on-going improvement and acquisition of worldwide tasks (non-Chinese language language) appropriate for the Chinese language market, together with options, documentary movies, IP content material, in addition to new expertise.