Peggy Chiao explains that the European rights to the "Three Cities" series were sold in advance to Pyramid Productions, one of France's ten big film distributors, which had previously released Smoke by the Chinese-American director Wayne Wong and the Russian film Burnt by the Sun.
焦雄屏表示，「三城記」系列採「預賣」歐洲版權的方式，引進法國十大片商之一、發行過華裔導演王穎的《煙》、蘇俄影片《烈日灼身》的「金字塔製片公司」資金。