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Feb 26th 2013, 23:10

Last September it was announced that Tony Leung would have a chance to collaborate with Maeda Atsuko on a joint Chinese-Japanese film titled 1905. With the escalation of anti-Japanese sentiments in China over territorial issues of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Tony was highly criticized by netizens who wished for him to drop out from the project. At that time, Tony's management company clarified that he had not formally signed on for the film. Tony's wife Carina Lau also said that he would postpone the film indefinitely. It seems plans for the movie were already over before it began. Yesterday there was news that the production company in charge of funding the film has filed for bankruptcy.

According to corporate credit research company Teikoku DataBank, an announcement was made today revealing that Japanese production company Prenom-H has already filed for bankruptcy on the 20th to the Tokyo District Court. The company's liability was at approximately 643 million yen. Last year Prenom-H decided to film 1905 and invited both Tony Leung and Maeda Atsuko to star in the movie. The film was planned for a fall release and there were plans to shoot on location in both Taiwan and Japan. Unfortunately no one could predict how badly the situation between China and Japan deteriorated. With news of Tony dropping out of the project and the avoidable delays in production, it caused cash flow problems within the company, resulting them to declare bankruptcy.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: sparkles_n15 @ AsianFanatics Forum