Wrekin Hill, Row 1 grow 'Flowers'

Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Row 1 Prods. allow us north of manchester American distribution rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou's "The Flowers of War," starring Christian Bale.Deal was introduced Monday within the American Film Market.The film remains selected as this year's official language entry for China within the Academy awards. Wrekin Hill will open the film in NY, La and San Francisco Bay Area in the finish of December and then expand through early 2012."Flowers" could have a large release in China on 12 ,. 16 following premieres in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.With various script by Heng Liu, pic is modified from Geling Yan's historic novel "13 Flowers of Nanjing," set in the backdrop in the Rape of Nanking in 1937. Pic is produced and fully funded by Zhang Weiping under his New Pictures Film banner."The Flowers of War" is inspired by true existence occasions, and notifies a geniune story of hope, love and sacrifice.Bale plays a u . s . states trapped among the chaos of fight, as well as the ensuing occupation, takes shelter, grew to become an associate of by a number of innocent schoolgirls and 13 13 courtesans, likely to escape the problems happening outdoors the chapel walls.Pic is executive produced by David Linde, Chaoying Deng, and Bill Kong. Worldwide sales are addressed by FilmNation Entertainment.The sale was talked about by executive producers Linde and Deng along with attorney Stephen Saltzman of Loeb & Loeb regarding the filmmaker, Zhang Weiping, by Chris Ball and Rene Cogan regarding Wrekin Hill and Brandt Andersen regarding Row 1. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com