All Asia articles – Page 382

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    Buyers wake up for Five Star’s 3AM

    2012-05-20T16:47:00Z

    Thailand’s Five Star Production is lining up a second 3D horror, 3AM, following the Asian box office success of its first such production, Dark Flight 3D.

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    Shoreline picks up Winter’s Sex

    2012-05-20T06:00:00Z

    Shoreline Entertainment has acquired all international rights to John Winter’s self-financed Black & White & Sex, in which eight actors play one sex worker being interviewed by a filmmaker.

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    MUBI reformats, partners with Weerasethakul, Sony Google TV, Nordisk Fund

    2012-05-20T06:00:00Z

    VOD service MUBI is in Cannes with 2010 Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul to launch 20-minute short Ashes.

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    Rabarts to head development for India’s NFDC

    2012-05-20T06:00:00Z

    Marten Rabarts, currently artistic director of Binger Filmlab, will step down at the end of May to take up the role of head of development with India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).

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    Film Base Berlin turns lens on Cambodia

    2012-05-20T06:00:00Z

    German production house Film Base Berlin is developing a Cambodia-themed drama Game Park, to be directed by French-Cambodian filmmaker Vanessa Ly.

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    Mister Smith's 3,096 days in demand

    2012-05-20T06:00:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: David Garrett’s new sales outfit Mister Smith, a joint venture with Constantin, has seen strong demand for Natascha Kampusch drama 3,096 Days.

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    Malaysia to launch international festival

    2012-05-19T20:00:00Z

    Malaysia’s National Film Development Corp (FINAS) is launching a film festival and contents market to be held in Kuala Lumpur in November.

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    Bae launches Tokyo production, distribution outfit

    2012-05-19T19:52:00Z

    Former Stylejam executive Soojun Bae has launched a Tokyo-based production and distribution outfit, Synca Creations.

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    Muyl heads to China for Butterfly remake

    2012-05-19T06:00:00Z

    French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences

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    Pictures Dept picks up Aoyama project

    2012-05-19T06:00:00Z

    Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoyama’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s award-winning novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui).

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    Metrodome, AB slayed by Guillotines

    2012-05-19T06:00:00Z

    Hong Kong-based We Distribution has sealed further deals on Andrew Lau’s action thriller The Guillotines, which has gone to the UK (Metrodome), French-speaking Europe (AB Droits Audiovisuels), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and India (WEG).

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    Bona Film Group boosts credit facility to $80m

    2012-05-19T06:00:00Z

    China’s Bona Film Group has increased its revolving credit facility with Bank of Beijing from $15.8m (RMB100m) to $79m (RMB500m), which it will use over the next two years for content production.

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    ScreenSingapore appoints Asian board members

    2012-05-18T15:55:00Z

    ScreenSingapore, has appointed six new Asian members to its board as the event moves to strengthen its Asian focus.

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    Wu’s Seven Stars to finance Killer remake

    2012-05-18T15:47:00Z

    Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios (SSFS) has agreed to finance John Woo and Terence Chang’s English-language remake of iconic Hong Kong action film The Killer.

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    Isabella Rossellini heads ADFF narrative jury

    2012-05-18T11:33:00Z

    Isabella Rossellini is to head the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s Narrative Competition jury.

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    Yash Raj taps Saleem for Y-Films comedy

    2012-05-18T10:55:00Z

    India’s Yash Raj Films, which is making its Cannes debut this year, has started production on the third film under its Y-Films banner, comedy Mere Dad Ki Maruti, starring Saqib Saleem.

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    Odin’s Eye picks up controversial Comedy

    2012-05-18T10:51:00Z

    Sydney-based sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has secured exclusive rights to writer-director Rick Alverson’s The Comedy in all territories outside of North America.

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    Features

    Sanford Panitch

    2012-05-18T07:05:00Z

    Fox International Productions president Sanford Panitch tells Jeremy Kay about lessons learned from the company’s 40 films in three years, and its plans for English-language European co-productions.

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    China Film to roll out giant screen technology

    2012-05-18T06:00:00Z

    China Film Group Corporation has announced that it will start rolling out its China Film Giant Screen (CFGS) technology this year, starting with 15 screens in cinemas in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and several other Chinese cities.

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    We Distribution reveals Lam’s Beauty

    2012-05-18T06:00:00Z

    Hong Kong-based We Distribution is unveiling romantic comedy, The Truth Of Beauty, produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan and directed by Aubrey Lam.