Deadline's Dominic Patten reports that additional funding has been secured for Ang Lee's version of the story of WWII's Flying Tigers, a squadron of volunter US pilots who helped China fight back against the Japan before the US joined the war.

Tom Cruise had been trying to get a version of this story off the ground, but it appears that Lee's camp, a China-US co-production monster, has definitively beaten him out. The project is being shot in English for use as both a six-hour TV miniseries and a two-part feature length movie.

I'm still unclear on which version will be shown in the US based on all the reporting I've seen, but it seems the two-part movie event is China-only. HBO-bound, then?