Forever Enthralled

Forever Enthralled simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Mi Lnfng is a Chinese biographical film directed by Chen Kaige the film marks Chens eleventh feature film as a director. Forever Enthralled follows the life of Mei Lanfang, one of Chinas premiere opera performers. It stars Leon Lai as Mei, Zhang Ziyi, Sun Honglei and Masanobu Ando.

Forever Enthralled was produced on a budget ofmillion US by the China Film Group and Taiwans China Magnetics Corporation Company CMC Company, which had previously helped fund John Woos Red Cliff and Alexi Tans Blood Brothers. Unlike Chens previous film, The Promise, Chen is not reteaming with his usual producers, Etchie Stroh and Moonstone Entertainment.Just prior to the films release in December 2008, Forever Enthralled producer, the China Film Group, ran into legal hurdles after it was sued by another production company, Milimeter. Milimeter claimed that it held the copyright to the film based on a contract signed between the two companies in 2004. ........

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