EXCLUSIVE: Music to arthouse movie lovers’ ears: Wong Kar Wai‘s epic drama collection Blossoms Shanghai is lastly getting a world launch, through Mubi.
Mubi will launch the 30-part drama collection in Latin America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Turkey and India. Dates haven’t been set but. There’s nonetheless no phrase on a UK or U.S. launch.
Blossoms Shanghai marks the primary ever collection for the revered Hong Kong filmmaker, identified for acclaimed films akin to Chungking Specific, Within the Temper for Love and 2046.
Based mostly on the novel Blossoms by Jin Yucheng, Blossoms Shanghai chronicles the ascent of a self-made millionaire Ah Bao, the Jay Gatsby of Shanghai, from the slums to the peak of the gilded metropolis. The collection explores how Bao personifies the idealism and adventurism that outlined the town within the Nineteen Nineties. Starring are Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan and Xin Zhilei. Cinematographer is Peter Pau, Oscar winner for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The deal was made between Block 2 Distribution and MUBI.
The collection first aired in China on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video in late 2023 and there have lengthy been hopes it might discover a world and home distributor and even play at a significant pageant. It was made ten years after his final film (The Grandmaster) and was three years in manufacturing all through the pandemic.
Efe Cakarel, Founder & CEO, MUBI, mentioned: “Wong Kar Wai was the inspiration behind beginning MUBI. His work has all the time represented every little thing we aspire to champion: daring imaginative and prescient, emotional depth, and a singular sense of magnificence. To convey Blossoms Shanghai—his first collection—to MUBI is profoundly significant. It’s a sweeping, deeply private masterpiece, and we’re honored to share it with audiences world wide.”
The voracious Mubi is more and more mixing in TV to its platform. Earlier unique collection embody Wiliam Kentridge’s Self Portrait as a Espresso Pot, and Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom Trilogy. To mark the thirty fifth anniversary of its launch, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks (1990) and Twin Peaks: A Restricted Occasion Sequence (2017), can even be coming to MUBI in choose territories from 13 June 2025.
Latest and upcoming MUBI releases embody Oliver Hermanus’ The Historical past of Sound starring Paul Mescal, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind starring Josh O’Connor, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth starring Renate Reinsve, Oscar successful Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance starring Demi Moore, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer starring Daniel Craig, and Magnus von Horn’s Oscar nominated The Lady with the Needle.
