All Screen articles in 27 March 2009 – Page 2
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Kill Daddy Good Night wins at Diagonale, My Magic in Fribourg
Glawogger’s Kill Daddy GoodNight wins Austrian Diagonale Grand Prix, Eric Khoo’s My Magic top winner at Switzerland’s Fribourg. Michael Glawogger’s Kill Daddy Good Night (Das Vaterspiel) picked up the Grand Prix for best Austrian feature film at this year’s Diagonale showcase of Austrian filmmaking.The film, which is adapted from Josef ...
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France bangs the drum for new tax incentive in Hong Kong
The French consul general for Hong Kong and Macau declared on Monday that the future ‘belonged to co-production between Europe and Asia’ and urged Asian producers to look at shooting films in France. He made the comments at an information session outlining the new 20% tax rebate for international productions ...
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Tribeca All Access selects 27 projects from US, UK, Australia, Canada
The Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute have selected 27 projects for the 2009 Tribeca All Access programme, which encourages industry support of filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities.TAA, supported by Bloomberg, is now in its sixth year, and will run during April 20-25 during the TFF.Participating directors and screenwriters ...
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Cinema Popular unveils $23m historical epic Bodyguards & Assassins
Start-up production and financing outfit Cinema Popular is unveiling its debut production today at Filmart - $23m historical epic Bodyguards And Assassins - to be directed by Teddy Chen.The film, which starts shooting in early April, features a host of Hong Kong and Chinese stars including Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, ...
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Voltage takes on international to Call Of The Wild 3D
Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights toCall Of The Wild 3D,based on the classic Jack London adventure novel.Richard Gabai directed the film, which premiered in Singapore at 3DX and will open in North America later this year once an imminent domestic deal is finalized.Call Of The Wild will ...
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Producer Terence Chang embarks on romantic comedy Dirt Rich
Producer Terence Chang has packaged romantic comedy Dirt Rich In Shanghai with Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertainment, Sil-Metropol Organization and Taiwan’s Tosoa Entertainment for an April start date.Taipei-based filmmaker Peter Lee (The Candidate) will direct the $2m film, which tells about a nouveau riche man determined to transform his down-to-earth ...
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Hong Kong's 852 Films begins production on first feature Dream Home
New Hong Kong production and financing outfit 852 Films has started production on award-winning director Pang Ho Cheung’s latest film,Dream Home, starring Josie Ho, Anthony Wong and Eason Chan.The film, in which Ho plays a woman who will stop of nothing to own her dream home, is Pang’s first foray ...
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Diaphana, Canal Plus take French rights to A Brand New Life
South Korean sales company Finecut has announced the pre-sales of Korea-France co-productionA Brand New Life, directed by Ounie Lecomte. Canal Plus has taken French television rights while Diaphana has picked up other French-speaking rights.A PPP 2008 project, A Brand New Life, currently in post-production, is Lecomte’s feature debut, inspired by ...
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Painted Skin, Ip Man, Pleasant Goat to get new instalments
New instalments of three Chinese-language blockbusters in 2008 - Painted Skin, Ip Man and Pleasant Goat - will go into production later in 2009, according to backers of the three films.Two investors in 2008 hit Painted Skin will reteam to produce the second film adapted from the 18th century book ...
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Germany's M-Appeal picks up internationalto Yang Yang
Germany’s M-Appeal has picked up international rights to Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-chieh’sYang Yang, which recently had its world premiere in the Panorama section at Berlin.The film, which follows a young Eurasian woman in Taiwan struggling with cultural identity issues, is also screening at the awards gala of the Hong Kong ...
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iHQ picks up sales rights to Joo Ji-Hong's Rabbit And Lizard
South Korea’s iHQ has picked up sales rights to sell Rabbit And Lizard, directed by Joo Ji-Hong, a Korean graduate of FEMIS who has spent some years in France making shorts.The award-winning director is now working with two pop idols-turned-actors - Jang Hyuk (Volcano High, Windstruck) and Sung Yuri (TV ...
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Universe puts Filmart buyers on Alert with Benny Chan actioner
Hong Kong’s Universe Films Distribution is introducing the latest project from hot action director Benny Chan - $10m sci-fi action title City On Alert (working title) - to buyers at Filmart.Chan is producing and will direct the film, which is set to star Aaron Kwok, Wu Jing and Shu Qi. ...
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NTV sells suspense actioner MW to Sundream in Hong Kong
Nippon Television Network (NTV) has sold action-suspense manga adaptation MW to Hong Kong’s Sundream Motion Pictures ahead of its market screening premiere.Based on a story by famed creator Osamu Tezuka first published in 1976, MW stars Hiroshi Tamaki as a high level banker leading a double life as a calculating ...
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Zhang Yimou lines up black comedy with Zhao Bensan
The Olympic Games now behind him, Zhang Yimou is preparing to shoot a black comedy with comedians Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang.Zhang has just returned from visiting Zhao and his theater troupe in Shenyang City of Northeastern China. Chinese media reported that it was a casting trip for his new ...
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Distribution Workshop adds Road, Curse to sales slate
Distribution Workshop has added a further two projects to its fast-growing slate - Derek Chiu’s romantic dramaThe Road Less Travelledand Lo Chi-leung’s horrorCurse Of The Deserted- both of which started shooting at the end of last month.The Road Less Travelled stars Louis Koo, Huang Yi and Karen Mok and is ...
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Gran Torino leads international box office with $8.8m take
Gran Torinoruled the roost of Hollywood releases overseas over a modest weekend as the drama grossed a further estimated $8.8m from more than 2,500 screens in 38 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International, raising the tally to $60m.The film launched in second place behind Slumdog Millionaire in Brazil on $409,000 ...
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NewsSummit has number one $24.8m domestic hit with Knowing
Summit Entertainment proved there is more to the ambitious company than the Twilight franchise with a strong $24.8m number one launch of its sci-fi adventure Knowing, which stars Nicolas Cage as an astrophysicist who tries to avert global catastrophe.The debut comfortably beat off challenges from DreamWorks-Paramount’s gross-out comedy I Love ...
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Matsumoto's Symbol to be completed in time for Cannes
Director and famed comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto revealed some details of his second directorial effort at a press conference held on Friday evening at the inaugural edition of the Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF, March 19-22).Entitled Symbol (Shimboru), the film stars Matsumoto as a man plotting to escape some manner of ...