{"id":28716,"date":"2025-07-29T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28716\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:16:08","slug":"chinese-historical-film-dead-to-rights-starring-liu-haoran-gets-north-america-anz-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28716\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Historical Film &#8216;Dead To Rights&#8217; Starring Liu Haoran Gets North America, ANZ Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChinese historical drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dead-to-rights\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dead-to-rights\" data-tag=\"dead-to-rights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dead to Rights<\/a> will get a North American release via Canada-based Niu Vision Media and U.S.-based Echelon Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by Shen Ao (No More Bets), the film will open theatrically in the U.S. and Canada on August 15, ahead of a planned streaming rollout later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDead to Rights has also secured theatrical releases via Niu Vision Media in Australia and New Zealand, where the film will arrive in theaters on August 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNiu Vision Media said that the film has grossed 531M Chinese yuan (nearly $74M) so far, since the film\u2019s July 25 release in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/china\/\" id=\"auto-tag_china\" data-tag=\"china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>. The distributor estimated that Dead to Rights is headed toward a $450M box office run domestically. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is set around the events of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, where a postman named A Chang pretends to be a photo developer in a photo studio, developing photos for the Japanese army. He takes in a group of Chinese soldiers and civilians, turning the studio into a temporary shelter. However, in the face of the Japanese army\u2019s cruel atrocities, A Chang risks his life to safely transfer the refugees and expose the evidence of the massacre to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film stars Liu Haoran (Detective Chinatown, The Breaking Ice), Wang Chuanjun (Three-Body), Gao Ye (The Knockout), Daichi Harashima, Wang Xiao and Yang Enyou. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cDead to Rights is a poignant, timely reminder of the human stories behind history\u2019s darkest chapters,\u201d said Niu Vision\u2019s CEO, Fukun Wang. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to partner once again with Echelon Studios to bring this extraordinary film to American audiences, both in theaters and later via streaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSandro Gohoho, president of licensing and operations at Echelon Studios, added: \u201cThis is a story that demands to be seen. Dead to Rights exemplifies the kind of bold, meaningful storytelling we\u2019re committed to supporting. We\u2019re thrilled to help bring Shen Ao\u2019s voice to digital audiences across the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese historical drama Dead to Rights will get a North American release via Canada-based Niu Vision Media and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,1348,512,26622,134,344],"class_list":["post-28716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-china","tag-dead-to-rights","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}