All articles by Karen Mazurkewich
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6ixtynin9, 2H share critics prize at Hong Kong
Chinese director Li Ying's Japanese production 2H and 6ixtynin9 by Thai director Pe-nek Ratanaruang shared the FIPRESCI prize at the 24th Hong Kong International Film Festival (April 12-27). In a statement to the press, Romanian critic Mihai Chirilov stated that the jury "wanted to make a statement and to be ...
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Golden Harvest, East-West to create Chinese portal
Hong Kong-based Golden Harvest Group and shareholder Acer Digital Services Group have joined forces with East-West Entertainment and Morning Technologies to form Eolasia.com, an entertainment portal to target the global Chinese community. The HK$200m investment will go towards three portals with localised content to service the China, Hong Kong ...
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Golden Harvest unveils digital, exhibition push
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment (GHE) is making an aggressive push into the Internet, following Taiwanese hardware giant Acer's investment in the company, and has also unveiled plans to step up exhibition activities in mainland China.In a deal mirroring AOL's merger with Time Warner, Acer Digital Services Group (ADSG) recently ...
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Production report: Hong Kong stages a comeback
The arrival of US and European financiers and the dot.com frenzy ripping through Asia has allayed fears that the Hong Kong film industry is on its way out. With rampant video piracy and declining box-office receipts during the late 1990s, industry analysts predicted a doom and gloom scenario. But the ...
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Village plans to sell Harvest stake to hotel chain
Australia's Village Roadshow plans to sell its 34.7% stake in Hong Kong movie company Golden Harvest Entertainment to Hong Kong-based Lai Sun Hotels International for $40m (HK$304.3m). The deal is conditional on the consent of Golden Harvest founder and chairman Raymond Chow."Village Roadshow is now totally focused on its core ...
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Chan sets off Applause to boost Asian production
Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Chan has formed a production company - Applause Pictures - with Teddy Chen, director of 1997 actioner Downtown Torpedoes, and the former head of Hong Kong video company Panorama Allan Fung. According to Chan, the goal of the company is "to bring Asian filmmakers together and ...
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China Star licenses martial arts pics to Yahoo!
Hong Kong film production house China Star Entertainment has signed a distribution agreement with Yahoo! Hong Kong to supply martial arts pictures for Internet distribution.Under the terms of the deal, 100 China Star titles will be digitised and distributed on the Internet free of charge. China Star chairman Heung Wah-keung ...