Source: Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American and Latin American rights to "House of Flying Daggers" director Zhang Yimou's martial-arts romantic drama CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER.

The feature, shooting in China, follows the medieval saga of a dysfunctional royal family led by a king (Chow) and queen (Gong) engaging in power struggles with their three sons and each other.

Zhang's "Daggers" and "Hero" action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-Tung returns for similar duties in this film, which also reunites the director with Gong ("Raise the Red Lantern," "Shanghai Triad").

This is the director's ninth project with Sony Pictures Classics, which hasn't yet set a release date for the film.