All Screen articles in 9 October 2008 – Page 4
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Ahmad, Lee Chang-dong take top PPP awards
Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad's Forget-Me-Not, which is being produced by Japan's Wa Entertainment, picked up the $20,000 Pusan Awardat the closing of the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) on Monday night. The project tells the story of a Malay girl who goes to visit her relatives in Japan after her Japanese ...
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Waltz With Bashir to open Warsaw Film Festival
Ari Folman will introduce his Cannes competition title Waltz With Bashir to Polish audiences at the opening ceremony of the 24th Warsaw Film Festival Oct 10. The festival concludes Oct 19 with Sergey Dvortsevov's Un Certain Regard winner Tulpan.The festival's international Warsaw Competition features 15 films. Dejan Zecevic's Serbian-Hungarian co-production ...
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PT Jababeka, Multivision team on Indonesian studio
Indonesian real estate company PT Jababeka and production house Multivision Plus are joining forces to build a major studio complex, Indonesia Movieland, in the suburbs of Jakarta. The complex, which will take five years to complete, will be spread across 36 hectares on the 5,600-hectare Kota Jababeka development. The partners ...
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KOFIC chairman declares Korean film industry in crisis
At the Korean Film Industry: Status And Vision conference over the weekend in Pusan, Korean Film Council (KOFIC) chairman Kang Han-sup took fire as he proclaimed the local industry in a 'great depression' while refusing to speak upon any detailed plans for overcoming the crisis. Busan Metropolitan City, at the ...
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Asian policy-makers to jointly examine incentives
After two days of well-attended seminars and meetings, the first Asia PacificFilm Policy Forum closed yesterday at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) with a joint declaration tocontinue holdingthe event,and to jointly promote the film and media industries within the region. Around 37 representatives from 14 countries agreed to make ...
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RGM set to tap Asian material for global distribution
Singapore-based RGM Entertainment, which has recently completed raising a $400m production fund, is now actively seeking Asian material with the aim of producing big-budget features for global distribution, said CEO Devesh Chetty at Pusan's Asian Film Funds Forum (AFFF)on Sunday. Chetty outlined the company's goals for the fund, which will ...
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China's Golden Globe boards Qin Shi Huang Project
China's Golden Globe Pictures, based in the city of Hangzhou, has signed an agreement with Korea's Odyssey Pictures to co-produce a $30m English-language feature, tentatively titled The Qin Shi Huang Project, which already has a French partner attached. In July this year, Odyssey had signed an agreement with Ariel Zeitoun ...
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Busan, Sapporo sign MoUfor film collaboration
The Korean city of Busan and Japanese city Sapporo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on film production, distribution and training programmes within the film industry in each city. The MoU was signed in Busan at the Asian Film Policy Forum during the Pusan International Film Festival ...
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Mirovision sells remake rights to Driving With My Wife's Lover
South Korea's Mirovision has announced the sale of US remake rights for Kim Tai-sik's Driving With My Wife's Lover to Circle of Confusion at Pusan's Asian Film Market. The former Sundance and Rotterdam film is about a man who hires his wife's lover, a taxi driver, to take him on ...
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Fox Star Studios seals two-picture deal with Shah
Fox Star Studios, the pan-Asian joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox and regional broadcaster Star, has struck a two-picture deal with producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah whose credits include Namastey London and Singh is Kinng. The deal includes development and production of a visual effects-driven fantasy action movie and a contemporary ...
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Mamma Mia! stays on top at international box office
Universal's Mamma Mia! extended its reign as dancing queen of the international box office this weekend, opening top in Italy and grossing an estimated $14.1m from 4,406 dates in 47 territories overall.Among newer international entrants, Eagle Eye, the DreamWorks-Paramount thriller, opened in 18 markets and grossed an estimated $8.3m from ...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua leads domestic box office pack
Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua was leader of the pack over a fiercely competitive weekend at the North American box office.Grossing an estimated $29m, the talking-dog family comedy was one of three new wide releases to make it into the top ten. Three other wide openers, meanwhile, failed to live up ...
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Martesko-Fenster joins Babelgum as GM, publisher of film division
Karol Martesko-Fenster has joined Babelgum, the free, independent web TV platform as general manager and publisher of the company's film division.He will oversee all aspects of the film offering on Babelgum, expanding programming acquisitions and partnerships and global film industry and festival activities. He also assumes the role of managing ...
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Tulpan named Best Filmat Zurich film festival
Documentary film-maker Sergei Dvortsevoy's feature debut Tulpan was awarded the Golden Eye for best feature film at the 4th Zurich Film Festival.The tragicomedy set in the steppes of Kazakhstan had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard in Cannes and was now shown for the first time in the ...
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Abu Dhabi's Circle Conference kicks off with Gianopuolos, Banderas
The second annual Circle Conference will take place this week in Abu Dhabi from Oct 6-8 at the Shangri-La Hotel.As previously announced the conference, designed as a forum for international producers, financiers, film-makers and local communities to create new filmmaking opportunities in the Middle East, will feature a keynote address ...
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Boy A takes Hitchcock d'Or among four prizes at Dinard
John Crowley's Boy A picked up the top Hitchcock d'Or prize among four awards at the 19th Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard.The film, which stars Peter Mullan and Andrew Garfield, won the Grand Prix Jury - The Hitchcock d'Or; the Grand Marnier trophy for best screenplay for Mark O'Rowe; ...
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LA Hungarian Festival opening on Oct 15 with Ezster's Inheritance
The eighth Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles will take place Oct 16-23 in West Hollywood presented by Laemmle Theatres and Bela Bunyik's Bunyik Entertainment.The event will screen numerous US premieres of Hungarian films as well as a compilation of US studio films produced, directed, written, shot or featuring music ...
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Korea's ACTI set to launch pan-Asian film fund
Korean venture capital firm Asia Culture Technology Investment (ACTI) is planning to launch a five-year $24m (30bn won) pan-Asian film fund, with the aim of boosting the region's output and competitiveness with Hollywood. Tentatively titled the Asia Joint Production Film Fund, the fund will invest in co-productions with a focus ...
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Zhang Ziyi to star in China-Korea co-production
Zhang Ziyi is set to star in a big-budget romantic comedy, Sophie's Revenge, which is being made as a China-South Korea co-production. The Chinese-language film will be shot entirely in China with a local director. Announced by CJ Entertainment in Pusan last night at the company's annual CJ Night bash, ...
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CJ scores further sales on The Good, The Bad, The Weird
CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of sales from the Asian Film Market in Pusan.Kim Jee-woon's fast-paced Oriental Western The Good, The Bad, The Weird - the international version of which is making its Asian premiere in the Pusan festival - has sold to Celestial Films for Hong Kong and ...