Biopic News

Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Fundamental Films is currently in the midst of pre-production on Sunset Boulevard – The Anna May Wong Story, with Xin Zhilei cast in the lead role. A biopic about the pioneering Chinese-American actress was previously announced by Working Title films with Gemma Chan attached.

Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau has been attached to direct The Cinematographer, a biopic on the life of pioneering Chinese-American filmmaker James Wong Howe. Ranked amongst the ten most influential cinematographers in film history, Howe's career spanned from the silent era through to his last film, the 1975 Fanny Brice biopic Funny Lady.

A few moths ago we reported that Thomasin McKenzie was cast to portray Audrey Hepburn in Dinner With Audrey, a biopic on the late actresses’ relationship with French designer Count Hubert de Givenchy. Now Lily Collins has announced on Instagram that she will produce and star in a new film about the making of Breakfast at Tiffanys.