A premium Chinese-language miniseries to be released in the fall of 2017
HONG KONG, Apr 24, 2017- FOX Networks Group Asia (FNG) and Focus Television (Focus TV) announced today that Tencent Penguin Pictures (Tencent) will join forces with them in bringing The Trading Floor, the premium Chinese-language miniseries, to viewers across the globe.
The Trading Floor, setting in Asia’s financial hub Hong Kong, is a 5-episode series following a crack team of financial mercenaries in their attempt to conquer the financial market. It is produced by Hong Kong superstar, Andy Lau’s Focus TV with KK Wong (Director of The Election 2014) as scriptwriter and director.
The series has netted a cast of feature-film talent including award-winning HK actor Francis Ng, Taiwanese hearththrob Joseph Chang and Yu Nan; also co-starring Poon Chang Leung, Jacky Cai , Carlos Chan and Jiang Qilin with special appearance of Patrick Tam.
Scheduled to be released in the fall of 2017, The Trading Floor will be broadcast on SCM, FNG Asia’s leading Chinese movie channel. It will also be made available to viewers in mainland China on Tencent Video on a day and date basis.
Andy Lau, the producer of The Trading Floor, said “With its innovation in storytelling and multi-dimensional characters, we truly believe The Trading Floor will have great appeal to global drama viewers. We hope the series will create a new dimension to the Asian television production industry.”
Cora Yim, SVP and Head of the Chinese Entertainment at FNG Asia, said, “We are thrilled to partner with Tencent and Focus TV, and in particular, to have Andy Lau as the producer for The Trading Floor. Together with the amazing on-and off-screen talent and crew, we are bringing high value, top quality Chinese content to our fans.”
Jeff Han, vice president of Tencent Penguin Pictures, General Manager of Video Content Cooperation Department of Tencent Video, states: “Fox is well-known and influential around the world. On the other hand, Tencent Penguin Pictures, which benefits from Tencent Video’s magnificant internet traffic, also produced many successful and famous TV shows. I believe that the cooperation between Fox and Tencent Penguin Pictures can benefit each other and generate more than simply puting our resources together. Meanwhile, we hope that this can be a good example for Chinese TV shows industry in the future.”
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Media Inquiries:
HONG KONG-
Valerie Lee
Assistant Manager – Marketing | Fox Networks Group Asia
valerie.lee@fox.com | +852.9151.0002
CHINA-
Punny Wang
TV Series Production Department/Program Manager | Tencent Penguin Pictures
punnywang@tencent.com | +86-136.0982.2921