Autumn Sun Picks Up ‘Moonlight Madness’ Starring Don Lee and Kris Phillips

Hong Kong-based sales outfit Autumn Sun has picked up international sales on Moonlight Madness starring Korean actor Don Lee (The Roundup) in his first ever comedy role and first performance in a Chinese production.

The film also stars Kris Phillips (Creation Of The Gods) as a top lawyer caught in hot waters during an affair in a hotel and features a special appearance by Lee who plays a jealous boyfriend throwing his signature punches. 

Autumn Sun is handling sales on the movie in collaboration with Scene One launched by producer Serena Deng Shuo, who is also the film’s producer and credited for bringing Don Lee onboard. 

“When we first showed Ma Dong-seok (Don Lee) the script, he liked it being a comedy”, said Deng. “Having it be a Chinese production is also a first for the action superstar”.  

Deng’s international co-production creds include Guardian Of The Tomb, starring Li Bingbing and Kelsey Gramer, and Guilt By Design, a China-Hong Kong co-production starring Cheung Ka Fai and produced by Derek Yee. Both were movies backed by mainland Chinese investors, while the main creatives were outside of mainland China.

Autumn Sun has already sold the film to Korea’s Big Wave Cinema, which is planning a theatrical release. 

Other titles on Autumn Sun’s slate include Tamil production The Mayan, an epic action film based on Indian mythology about an apocalyptic prophecy in Mayan culture, directed by J. Rajes Kanna. 

Autumn Sun, headed by Elliot Tong, is also selling Thai horror movie The Master’s Face (Mulu Nakru), which has already been sold pre-market to Taiwan’s Movie Cloud, and two new horror films from Indonesia – Curse Of The Flesh and Summoning Evil. 

The company also has the Asian market premiere of animation Inspector Sun, featuring the voice of Ronny Chieng, and Cop And A Half, a new gangster thriller from South Africa which Autumn Sun is handling Asian sales for on behald of South African powerhouse Indigenous.

“Besides offering features this year we are starting other format sales such short format, which we feel is a force to be reckoned with, already an over RMB7BN business in China, so buyers from Asia are very curious if shorts can work in their own markets,” said Tong.