Bona Film Group Announces Tentative Film Slate Through Mid-2015


BEIJING, June 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bona Film Group Limited ("Bona" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:BONA), a leading film distributor and vertically integrated film company in China, today announced its tentative film slate through mid-2015:

Tentative
Release Date*
Title Director
June 2014 12 Years A Slave Steve McQueen
July 2014 Non-Stop Jaume Collet-Serra
July 2014 My Geeky Nerdy Buddies
(Formerly Titled Daydream Believer)
Yen-Ping Chu
July 2014 Duckweed Han Han
August 2014 The White-Haired Witch Jacob Cheung
August 2014 Pompeii Paul W.S. Anderson 
September 2014 The Grandmaster 3D
(North America Version)
Wong Kar-wai 
September 2014 The Dead End 
(Formerly Titled Sunspot)
Cao Bao Ping
October 2014 Midnight Fantasy
(Tentative Name)
Tian Meng
Wai Man Yip
Xuchu Xian
December 2014 The Taking of Tiger Mountain Tsui Hark
February 2015 Bride Wars Tony Chan
February 2015 The Man from Macau 2 Wong Jing
March 2015 Insanity Guangyao Li
April 2015 Secret Treasure
(Tentative Name)
Gordon Chan 
May 2015 I Am Somebody Derek Yee
July 2015 The Sword Master Derek Yee

*All release dates are tentatively planned and are not considered as official release dates. Each film's final release date depends on a number of factors including competitive strategy, market condition and government approval, among others.

"Bona has a strong and diversified slate of films tentatively scheduled for release through mid-2015, including films by Hong Kong directors, domestic films directed by and star local talents, and high quality foreign films, which demonstrates our commitment to delivering quality entertainment with stories and casts that resonates with audiences throughout China," said Mr. Yu Dong, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Bona. "We believe a number of these films in our slate offer the potential to be box office hits, and we have confidence that Bona will continue the strong box office growth rate of 2013 and hit a new record in 2014."

About Bona Film Group Limited

Bona Film Group Limited (Nasdaq:BONA) is a leading film distributor in China, with an integrated business model encompassing film distribution, film production, film exhibition and talent representation. Bona distributes films to Greater China, Korea, Southeast Asia, the United States and Europe, invests and produces movies in a variety of genres, owns and operates twenty-two movie theaters and manages a range of talented and popular Chinese artists.

For more information about Bona, please visit http://www.bonafilm.cn.

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