All Asia articles – Page 113
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NewsChina’s Blossoms brings Huayi Brothers trio to Filmart Online
Beijing-based sales agency is also handling war epic Sacrifice and Vincent Zhao’s Counter Attack.
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NewsOne Cool delivers on promise to revive Hong Kong film with busy Filmart slate
New projects include Au Cheuk Man’s Stand Up Story, co-produced with EMP, and Chui Tze Yiu’s Remember What I Forgot.
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NewsClover Films, iQiyi team on four films from Singapore directors (exclusive)
The two companies will co-produce Chinese-language films directed by Kelvin Tong, Melvin Mak, Ong Kuo Sin and Tay Ping Hui.
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NewsEntertaining Power launches sales on crime thriller ‘A Murder Erased’ (exclusive)
Frequent Johnnie To collaborator Dennis Law is directing the film, which stars Eddie Cheung and Dada Chan.
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FeaturesAsian buyers talk pandemic survival strategies and the year ahead
Three Asian distributors who have remained active during the Covid-19 pandemic share their experiences.
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FeaturesFilmart 2021: The hot projects from Hong Kong and China
As China comes off a record-breaking New Year, distribution is still feeling the effects of coronavirus.
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FeaturesIs China finally opening to Korean content as political relations improve?
Hopes are rising that Korean films and dramas might finally get an airing in China for the first time since they were banned in 2016.
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FeaturesHive Media Corp’s Kim Won-kuk talks building a slate of hits in challenging times
The Man Standing Next producer discusses how streamers, Covid-19 are changing Korean film.
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FeaturesGolden Scene’s Winnie Tsang on opening an independent cinema in Hong Kong
Veteran distributor shares her vision for Golden Scene Cinema, which opened last month in the newly gentrified Kennedy Town district.
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NewsSundance Institute sets Asian festival spin-off for Jakarta
Event will include films from this year’s US festival, initiatives for Asian talent.
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NewsFortissimo sells ‘Sexual Drive’ to Film Movement for North America
Directed by Yoshida Kota, the film is described as a triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires.
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NewsHong Kong International Film Festival unveils programme for 2021 hybrid edition
Philip Yung’s Where The Wind Blows and Septet: The Story Of Hong Kong will open the festival.
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Reviews‘Taste’: Berlin Review
Lê Bảo’s debut took the Special Jury Prize in the festival’s avant garde Encounters section
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FeaturesScreen craft: the documentary skills that helped Newton Thomas Sigel shoot Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’
”Today cinematographers have so many more tools than we had when I began.”
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NewsChina box office: ‘Raya’ opens in third; ‘Nomadland’ encounters backlash
Disney’s Raya And The Last Dragon took $8.5m over the three-day weekend, behind Lunar New Year holdovers Hi, Mom and Endgame.
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NewsHong Kong’s UA Cinemas ceases operations citing pressures of Covid-19
Six cinemas are being shuttered today (March 8), while K11 Art House was sold to MCL last month and remains open.
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Reviews‘Just 1 Day’: Dublin Review
Screenwriter Erica Li makes her directorial debut with Chris Doyle behind the lens
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NewsBlue Fox Entertainment picks up Pedring Lopez action title Gi (exclusive)
Cecep Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian star in the film, which starts shooting in Indonesia this spring.
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NewsAsian Shadows picks up Mongolian debut ‘Harvest Moon’ (exclusive)
The project took part in the 2020 edition of Locarno Open Doors.
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FeaturesDirector Chung Mong-Hong opens up on Taiwan’s Oscar submission ‘A Sun’
A Sun could be the first film from Taiwan to achieve an Academy Award nomination in 20 years