Oscar-winning cinematographer Peter Pau ( Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) joins Zhao Tianyu ( Deadly Delicious) in helming epic spectacle Zhong Kui: Snow Girl & the Dark Crystal. Starring A-listers Aloys Chen ( Painted Skin: The Resurrection) & Li Bingbing ( Transformers: Age of Extinction), the big-budget US-China co-production was a massive hit in China, raking in over 410 million at the box office over the Lunar New Year period.
In a world where gods, mortals & demons co-exist, the precarious balance of power between the groups is always teetering on the edge of all-out war. The realms are pushed ever closer to this fate when demons begin attacking mortals & stealing their souls. In retaliation, deity Master Zhang (Winston Chao, 1911) sends his right-hand man Zhong Kui (Aloys Chen) to retrieve the Dark Crystal, which houses the stolen souls. To counter this, the underworld sends the snow demon Xueqing (Li Bingbing) to intercept Zhong Kui. As it turns out, Xueqing bears an uncanny resemblance to Zhong Kuis long-lost love...