Fly Films
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FLY Films is a video production
and film production company based in Shanghai
, China
. The company was started in 2004 by Eric Ransdell and Norman Wong.
Services range from pre-production
, production, and post-production
to crewing, directing, and producing. Their clients include many of the world's largest television networks and multinational corporations. FLY Films works with many foreign broadcasters, such as STAR World
, BBC
, MTV
, ABC
(USA), and ESPN
, as well as Chinese networks, such as Shanghai Media Group
and CCTV News
, to coordinate and crew their entertainment productions in China. FLY Films also specializes in corporate work that is produced to an international broadcast standard, clients include Alfred Dunhill, Starbucks
, Johnnie Walker
, Nike
, Intel, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
, and General Motors
.
for International Channel Shanghai
(ICS) in 2009. As a part of Shanghai Media Group
's programming for Shanghai Expo 2010
, Shanghai Rush
was the flagship production for the Spring 2009 schedule of their ICS TV station.
FLY Films handled post production for International Channel Shanghai
(ICS)'s ten-episode documentary series, China Visionaries. Under Shanghai Media Group
, China Visionaries was produced in celebration of China's 60th anniversary. The series featured renowned international figures such as Henry Kissinger
, Bob Hawke
, Jean-Pierre Raffarin
, Yasuhiro Nakasone
, and Juan Antonio Samaranch
.
FLY Films produced the second season of Asia Uncut
in 2010. With its move from Singapore to Shanghai, FLY Films was responsible for the re-development of the show. Asia Uncut
is the only late-night talk show featuring both Asian and Western celebrities, musical guests, and comedians to be taped in China and broadcast throughout Asia and the Middle East. Celebrity guests of the show's second season included Jackie Chan
, Edison Chen
, Leehom Wang, Ed Norton
, Aaron Eckhart
, Jamie-Lynn Sigler
, Anoushka Shankar
, Lee Jung Hyun, Donnie Yen
, and Tom Arnold
. The show also featured up and coming musical guests from China such as New Pants, Carsick Cars
, Casino Demon, and Cold Fairyland
. The English-language show was taped before a live audience in Shanghai and was broadcast on STAR World
to an estimated 120 million people in 53 countries.
FLY Films' current reality TV series is The Amazing Race: China Rush
. The TV network, International Channel Shanghai
(ICS), acquired the rights to produce a Chinese version of the American franchise, The Amazing Race
. With Allan Wu
as the host, the show features 10 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 10 cities in China to win a world tour provided by Travel Zen. Filming took place between May and June, 2010. The Amazing Race: China Rush
premiered on August 8, 2010 on ICS and aired globally on CCTV News
(CCTV-9) on August 14, 2010.
Video production
Video production is videography, the process of capturing moving images on electronic media even streaming media. The term includes methods of production and post-production...
and film production company based in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. The company was started in 2004 by Eric Ransdell and Norman Wong.
Services range from pre-production
Pre-production
Pre-production or In Production is the process of preparing all the elements involved in a film, play, or other performance.- In film :...
, production, and post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of filmmaking and the video production process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art...
to crewing, directing, and producing. Their clients include many of the world's largest television networks and multinational corporations. FLY Films works with many foreign broadcasters, such as STAR World
STAR World
STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
, BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
(USA), and ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
, as well as Chinese networks, such as Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group , under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group , is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company...
and CCTV News
CCTV News
CCTV News may refer to:* CCTV News, the news department itself, of China Central Television* CCTV News , a Chinese language news channel* CCTV NEWS, formerly CCTV-9, an English language news channel...
, to coordinate and crew their entertainment productions in China. FLY Films also specializes in corporate work that is produced to an international broadcast standard, clients include Alfred Dunhill, Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
, Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch Whisky owned by Diageo and originated in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.It is the most widely distributed brand of blended Scotch whisky in the world, sold in almost every country with yearly sales of over 130 million bottles.-History:Originally known as Walker's...
, Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
, Intel, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts runs the Shangri-La, Kerry and Traders brands of hotels.-Companies:*Shangri-La Asia Limited is incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability...
, and General Motors
General Motors
General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
.
Television Productions
FLY Films produced its first reality TV series, Shanghai RushShanghai Rush
Shanghai Rush is a Chinese reality television program broadcast by International Channel Shanghai as part of the TV scheduling leading up to the 2010 Shanghai Expo and designed to showcase the city. The series borrowed heavily from the themes of the American reality show The Amazing Race and was...
for International Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai, better known as ICS, is the foreign-language cable channel of Shanghai Media Group. Long before the parent company was known as SMG, Shanghai Television Station began producing the English-language “News at Ten” in 1986. On January 1, 2008, ICS replaced the Shanghai...
(ICS) in 2009. As a part of Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group , under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group , is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company...
's programming for Shanghai Expo 2010
Expo 2010
Expo 2010, officially Expo 2010 Shanghai China was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in the city of Shanghai, China, from May 1 to October 31, 2010. It was a major World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the first since 1992...
, Shanghai Rush
Shanghai Rush
Shanghai Rush is a Chinese reality television program broadcast by International Channel Shanghai as part of the TV scheduling leading up to the 2010 Shanghai Expo and designed to showcase the city. The series borrowed heavily from the themes of the American reality show The Amazing Race and was...
was the flagship production for the Spring 2009 schedule of their ICS TV station.
FLY Films handled post production for International Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai, better known as ICS, is the foreign-language cable channel of Shanghai Media Group. Long before the parent company was known as SMG, Shanghai Television Station began producing the English-language “News at Ten” in 1986. On January 1, 2008, ICS replaced the Shanghai...
(ICS)'s ten-episode documentary series, China Visionaries. Under Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group , under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group , is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company...
, China Visionaries was produced in celebration of China's 60th anniversary. The series featured renowned international figures such as Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
, Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
, Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French conservative politician and senator for Vienne.Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin...
, Yasuhiro Nakasone
Yasuhiro Nakasone
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987. A contemporary of Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of...
, and Juan Antonio Samaranch
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Don Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquis of Samaranch, Grandee of Spain , known in Catalan as Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló , was a Catalan Spanish sports administrator who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001...
.
FLY Films produced the second season of Asia Uncut
Asia Uncut
Asia Uncut is a variety chat show hosted by Jon Niermann, the president of Electronic Arts, Asia. The show premiered in March 2009 and is aired in many countries via STAR World....
in 2010. With its move from Singapore to Shanghai, FLY Films was responsible for the re-development of the show. Asia Uncut
Asia Uncut
Asia Uncut is a variety chat show hosted by Jon Niermann, the president of Electronic Arts, Asia. The show premiered in March 2009 and is aired in many countries via STAR World....
is the only late-night talk show featuring both Asian and Western celebrities, musical guests, and comedians to be taped in China and broadcast throughout Asia and the Middle East. Celebrity guests of the show's second season included Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts...
, Edison Chen
Edison Chen
Edison Koon-Hei Chen is a Hong Kong film actor, Cantopop singer, Hong Kong hip hop rapper, model, record producer, fashion designer, and a pop icon. Chen is also the founder of CLOT Inc., and the CEO of Clot Media Division Limited...
, Leehom Wang, Ed Norton
Ed Norton
Edward Norton is an American actor.Edward Norton may also refer to:*Edward Norton , MP for Carlisle and Haslemere*Edward Felix Norton , British army officer and mountaineer...
, Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American film and stage actor. Born in California, he moved to England at the age of 13, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Sydney, Australia, for his high school senior year...
, Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Jamie-Lynn Sigler is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the HBO television series The Sopranos.-Early life:...
, Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar...
, Lee Jung Hyun, Donnie Yen
Donnie Yen
Donnie Yen is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film director and producer, action choreographer, and world wushu tournament medalist...
, and Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold (actor)
Thomas Dwaine "Tom" Arnold is an American actor and comedian. He has appeared in many films, perhaps most notably True Lies . He was the host of The Best Damn Sports Show Period for four years.-Early life:...
. The show also featured up and coming musical guests from China such as New Pants, Carsick Cars
Carsick Cars
Carsick Cars is a Chinese indie rock trio formed in March, 2005.The band was scheduled to open for Sonic Youth in Beijing in April, 2007, but their performance was canceled on short notice...
, Casino Demon, and Cold Fairyland
Cold Fairyland
Cold Fairyland, is a C-rock music group based in Shanghai, China. Their style combines Eastern melodies and rhythms with Western symphonic rock and classical music. The band has two sides; classical and rock, which allows them to play in concert halls as well as in rock clubs...
. The English-language show was taped before a live audience in Shanghai and was broadcast on STAR World
STAR World
STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
to an estimated 120 million people in 53 countries.
FLY Films' current reality TV series is The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush is a Chinese reality television series. Based on the American reality TV series, The Amazing Race, it features 10 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 11 cities in China to win a world tour provided by Travelzen...
. The TV network, International Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai, better known as ICS, is the foreign-language cable channel of Shanghai Media Group. Long before the parent company was known as SMG, Shanghai Television Station began producing the English-language “News at Ten” in 1986. On January 1, 2008, ICS replaced the Shanghai...
(ICS), acquired the rights to produce a Chinese version of the American franchise, The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
. With Allan Wu
Allan Wu
Allan Wu is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor and MTV Asia VJ who is recognized by many people as the host of the Asian version of The Amazing Race....
as the host, the show features 10 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 10 cities in China to win a world tour provided by Travel Zen. Filming took place between May and June, 2010. The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush is a Chinese reality television series. Based on the American reality TV series, The Amazing Race, it features 10 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 11 cities in China to win a world tour provided by Travelzen...
premiered on August 8, 2010 on ICS and aired globally on CCTV News
CCTV News
CCTV News may refer to:* CCTV News, the news department itself, of China Central Television* CCTV News , a Chinese language news channel* CCTV NEWS, formerly CCTV-9, an English language news channel...
(CCTV-9) on August 14, 2010.