Writer Guo Jingming's directorial debut will be based on his own bestseller, Tiny Times. Angie Chai, from Taiwan, will produce the film. Chai's last film, You Are the Apple of My Eye, is one of the most successful romance films in China and grossed about $24 million with a budget of only $1.7 million. The movie was also based on a popular novel and directed by its author. Tiny Times, which is about a group of young men's lives in Shanghai, stars Ko Chen Tung, the lead actor of Apple, and mainland actress Yang Mi. Filming started in Beijing on Nov 9.