All Asia articles – Page 373
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News9ers sells Wedding Scandal, 90 Minutes to Japan
Korean sales company 9ers Entertainment has clinched Japanese deals on romantic comedy Wedding Scandal and erotic thriller 90 Minutes.
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NewsGaga, Wild Bunch adopt Kore-eda's Father
EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Gaga Corporation and Wild Bunch are jointly handling sales on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son, marking the second time they’ve collaborated on one of the director’s films.
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NewsCJ announces slew of Snowpiercer deals
Korea’s CJ Entertainment has announced a slew of pre-sales for Bong Joon Ho’s post-apocalyptic action thriller Snowpiercer, led by deals to Wild Side Films for France and Bitters End and Kadokawa Shoten for Japan.
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Shochiku unwraps Kinoshita biopic
Japanese studio Shochiku is launching a biopic of Keisuke Kinoshita, written and directed by Crayon Shin-chan director Keiichi Hara, at EFM.
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NewsXYZ slays sales for Killers
EXCLUSIVE: Japanese-Indonesian crime-thriller sells to Germany, France, Turkey and Hong Kong.
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NewsAll Rights takes on Wings, Second Coming
Paris and Hong Kong-based sales outfit All Rights Entertainment (ARE) has picked up international rights to hard-hitting Chinese drama Burned Wings and Herman Yau’s The Second Coming.
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NewsCJ, Fortissimo serve up Final Recipe
EXCLUSIVE: Korea’s CJ Entertainment and Fortissimo Films will be introducing Gina Kim’s English-language Final Recipe, starring Michelle Yeoh, to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM).
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NewsFinecut bolsters slate ahead of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Pickups include Hong Sang-soo’s Berlinale Competition title Nobody’s Daughter Haewon.
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NewsLotte makes English-language debut with Last Knights
EXCLUSIVE: Korean studio Lotte Entertainment is co-financing and selling Asian territories on The Last Knights, starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, marking its first move into English-language product.
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NewsKorea's M-Line turns on Television
EXCLUSIVE: Korea’s M-Line Distribution has made another foray into non-Korean product by picking up international rights to Television, directed by Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa S. Farooki.
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NewsBombay Berlin brings love triangle to EFM
Indo-German sales company Bombay Berlin Film has picked up Blue Throat Entertainment’s maiden project, the love triangle film Ishq Actually, for the EFM.
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NewsCast of Pearce, Pattinson thriller The Rover revealed
Scoot Mcnairy, Susan Prior, Gillian Jones, Anthony Hayes and David Field have joined the cast of Porchlight Films and Lava Bear Films’ The Rover, which stars Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson and is currently shooting in South Australia.
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NewsVikander to shoot Gun with McGregor
Alicia Vikander among cast to join Ewan McGregor in Julius Avery’s debut Son of a Gun.
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ReviewsJourney To The West: Conquering The Demons
Dirs: Stephen Chow, Derek Kwok. China. 2013. 110mins
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NewsMichelle Yeoh to be honoured at Asian Film Awards
Michelle Yeoh will receive the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award at this year’s Asian Film Awards, which will take place in Hong Kong on March 18.
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NewsKorean admissions up 21.9% to 195m
South Korean box office admissions jumped a massive 21.9% in 2012 compared to the year before, according to a recent Korean Film Council (KOFIC) report.
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NewsSapphires sweeps Australia's AACTA Awards
Comedy drama The Sapphires dominated the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, hosted Wednesday night [Jan 30] in Sydney by actor Russell Crowe.
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NewsJapanese box office up 7.7%
The Japanese box office totalled $2.15bn (195bn yen) in 2012, topping the previous year’s figures by 7.7% but remaining below 2010’s 220.7bn yen.
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NewsApichatpong, Kawase among filmmakers selected for HAF
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has unveiled the list of 25 projects selected for its 11th edition (March 18-20), including new projects from Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Japan’s Naomi Kawase.