All Asia articles – Page 326
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NewsDead, End wins at PiFan's NAFF
The 18th Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) wrapped tonight with top Bucheon Award going to Dev Benegal’s Indian project Dead, End Or: How I Learned To Stop Living And Love Being Officially Dead.
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NewsScreen Australia backs 18 features
UK producer Kevin Loader joins comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
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NewsTransmedia talks at PiFan’s NAFF
At the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), experts discussed transmedia storytelling, where it’s at and where it could go in the near future.
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NewsSpackman jumps 79% on Singapore debut
Korea’s Spackman Entertainment Group (SEG) surged 78.9% in an IPO on the Catalist board of the Singapore stock exchange on Tuesday (July 22).
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NewsTiny Times 3 tops China box office
CHINA BOX OFFICE: The third installment in Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times franchise grossed $50.12m over its opening weekend in China, finally toppling Transformers: Age Of Extinction from the top spot.
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NewsChina box office up 25% in H1 2014
China’s box office increased by 25% to reach $2.23bn (RMB13.74bn) in the first half of 2014, according to official figures from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRT).
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NewsUnveil The Truth wins in Taipei
Kevin Lee’s documentary Unveil The Truth II: State Apparatus won the Grand Prize and best documentary at this year’s Taipei Film Awards, which took place at the close of the Taipei Film Festival on July 19.
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Lippo Group to invest $516m in cinemas
Indonesia’s Lippo Group has announced plans to invest $516m (6 trillion rupiahs) in 300 multiplexes across the country over the next ten years.
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NewsAlibaba pacts with high-profile trio
ChinaVision Media Group, which will soon be renamed Alibaba Pictures Group, has signed production deals with Wong Kar Wai’s Block 2 Pictures, Angie Chai and Giddens Ko’s Star Ritz International Entertainment and Peter Ho-sun Chan’s We Pictures.
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NewsPanna Rittikrai dies aged 53
Panna Rittikrai, the action choreographer who introduced Thai action movies to world audiences, has died aged 53.
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FeaturesNoboru Iguchi, Live & Nuigulumar Z
Ian Sandwell talks to the Japanese film-maker about his two films screening at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
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CommentMamoru Oshii honoured at Fantasia
Japanese film-maker receives Lifetime Achievement award on opening night of genre festival in Montreal.
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NewsBusan unveils Film Academy fellows
24 participants have been selected for the 10th Asian Film Academy, which will have Hungarian director Bela Tarr as its dean.
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NewsChina’s iQiyi launches film company
Chinese video streaming platform iQiyi is launching a film company, iQiyi Films, which aims to develop a new internet-oriented business model for film production.
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NewsSaffron Digital, KDDI launch Anime Service
KDDI has partnered with Saffron Digital to launch Anime Pass, a new subscription service offering anime content.
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FeaturesPark Chan Wook
The Korean director talks international appeal as he is being honoured at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
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NewsPlans for Fox theme park, Korea
20th Century Fox and Village Roadshow have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Gyeongsang Province to build a theme park.