On the heels of the sci-fi blockbuster Crazy Alien, actor Huang Bo is returning to his familiar zone to join a new sci-fi flick.

His new film, People Caught by the Light, is one of the four features that the rising studio Beijing Culture recently announced during the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival.

As one of the most successful domestic studios in recent years, Beijing Culture is known for producing Wolf Warrior 2, and The Wandering Earth, the top and second highest-grossing films of all time in China.

Aside from Huang, the film also casts A-list actresses Wang Luodan and Tan Zhuo.

As the directorial debut of renowned scriptwriter Dong Runnian, the movie is sort of a dark noir to explore humanity in extreme situations. A huge bunch of weird light falls onto a city, causing the disappearance a lot of people. Amid fears and sorrows, the surviving civilians are trying to unravel the mystery as well as facing off new conflicts.

The other three films of Beijing Culture's lineup are Taiwan director Lin Yu-hsien's Dancing Elephant, Lu Chuan's new directorial adventure tale Bureau 749, and director Ding Sheng's action drama S.W.A.T.

Starring Jin Chunhua and Ai Lun, the inspirational comedy Dancing Elephant is about a dancer who falls into a coma after an accident. She wakes up 15 years later, finding herself gaining a lot of weights, making her wish to return to stage a tough journey.

Dancing Elephant, now traveling across China to hold promotional events in nine cities, will be officially released on July 26.

Bureau 749, based on director Lu's early working experience in a special military bureau to investigate paranormal incidents, is co-financed by Beijing Culture, Huayi Brothers Media and Tencent Pictures.

Marking as director Ding's latest action flick after A Better Tommorrow 2018, S.W.A.T. is about a team of Chinese special forces which cracks down a drug-producing base.