Chen Kaige's mega budget fantasy epic The Promise , Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love and Tsai Ming-Liang's erotic musical The Wayward Cloud will represent China to bid for the Best Foreign Language Film at upcoming Oscar.

The Promise won the privilege by beating such films like the highly appraised Kekexili, Mountain Patrol, Cannes winner Shanghai Dreams, Silver Berlin Bear winner Peacock and Letters from an Unknown Woman.  　　

In Hong Kong, Perhaps Love is favored over Jackie Chan's latest action The Myth and Stanley Kwan's Everlasting Regret, and in Taiwan, The Wayward Cloud wins without competitors. 　　

The Weinstein Company has acquired the North American, English, Australian and South African rights to The Promise along with IDG New Media Fund. However, it is unknown whether the Weinstein brothers will support its Oscar quest . Three years ago, when Zhang Yimou's Hero was making the Oscar bid, MiramAxe, under the Weinstein brothers' control back them, did absolutely nothing even thought the studio had already acquired the rights to the film for major English speaking countries several months before.

(CRI)

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