By Rebecca Davis editor Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai’s new film “Blossoms” is set to start shooting in mainland China’s Hengdian World Studios from July.
The production has reportedly rented space at the sprawling studio in coastal Zhejiang province for 11 months, from May of this year to March 2021.
The news is the latest indication that film production in mainland China is revving back up again after coronavirus closures, far ahead of the rest of the world. “Blossoms” will be Wong’s first film since 2013’s “The Grandmaster,” and only his eleventh in more than three decades.
It is an adaptation of the eponymous 2012 novel by Jin Yucheng, one of the few authors writing directly in the local dialect of Shanghainese, and tells the story
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