Shanghai Buyers Get First Taste of ‘Coolie,’ Arvin Chen’s Cuba-Set Chinese Diaspora Series

Chinese industry executives will get a first taste of “Coolie,” a big-budget historical miniseries that focuses on the enslaved Chinese workers in Cuba in the 1860s.

MM2 Entertainment is handling China rights to the production on behalf of I.E. Entertainment. The Suharjono sisters’ I.E. Entertainment is representing rights in the rest of the world.

Following a shoot in the Dominican Republic and Panama which wrapped in April, preliminary footage will be screened for buyers on Monday at a special event in Shanghai. Delivery of the completed series is not expected until late 2024 or early 2025.

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