All Asia articles – Page 383
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NewsBanerjee's Talkies short marks centennial of Indian cinema
Dibakar Banerjee’s short film, which forms a part of the omnibus Bombay Talkies commemorating 100 Years of Indian Cinema, will be based on Satyajit Ray’s short story Potol Babu Film Star.
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FeaturesAn international rendezvous
With a new December slot running concurrently with the Asia TV Forum & Market, ScreenSingapore is aiming to provide a crossing point for the Asian and international film businesses. Jean Noh reports
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NewsBeyond The Hill wins best feature at APSA Awards
The Turkish film industry was honoured at the sixth annual Asia Pacific Film Awards (APSAs), with three films among the winning line-up including Beyond the Hill, which was judged best feature.
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NewsBeautiful Bay takes up Arms with Shah
UK producers Michael Ward and Colin Burrows have established a production outfit, Beautiful Bay Entertainment (BBE), which is developing an adaptation of classic play Arms And The Man with Indian actor and filmmaker Naseeruddin Shah.
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NewsPeepli Live directors option Sethi's A Free Man
Delhi-based filmmakers Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui are planning an adaptation of Aman Sethi’s non-fiction work A Free Man, which they are planning as a sequel to their 2010 hit Peepli Live.
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Flick The Switch turns on Porichoi
India and UK-based boutique studio Flick The Switch has boarded Bengali film Porichoi, directed by Rupali Guha, as co-producer and sales agent for English-speaking territories.
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NewsQ's Overdose Joint lines up treble
Bengali director Q is producing three new projects through his production house Overdose Joint, including Kolkata-set horror film Ludo.
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NewsDresden to produce live action Grave of the Fireflies
Dresden Pictures has acquired the UK rights to Japanese war story Grave of the Fireflies for a live action adaptation.
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FeaturesAsia Pacific heights
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Nov 23) shines the spotlight on a vast region that organisers say does not always receive the attention it deserves. Sandy George reports
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NewsBliss, Film Base Berlin board Nair's Umrika
Jim Birmant of Paris-based Bliss and Mathias Schwerbrock of Film Base Berlin have boarded Indian-born director Prashant Nair’s new project Umrika as co-producers.
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NewsFox to produce Hindi remake of Knight And Day
Fox Star Studios India CEO Vijay Singh has confirmed the studio will produce a Hindi remake of Fox’s 2010 action comedy Knight And Day, with Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif heading the cast.
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NewsMomentary Lapse Of Reason to start shooting in January
Aditya Bhattacharya will start shooting A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, an English-language remake of his 1988 cult classic Raakh, in Hyderabad in January.
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NewsChopra's Broken Horses starts shooting with D'Onofrio
Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s first English-language film, Broken Horses, has started shooting in Los Angeles with Vincent D’Onofrio [pictured], Anton Yelchin and Chris Marquette heading the cast.
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NewsAmitabh Bachchan to star in Kabuliwala
EXCLUSIVE: Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is attached to play the lead in French-Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi’s screen adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala.
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NewsGlobal partners tuck into Lunchbox
EXCLUSIVE: Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra has lined up a host of international collaborators for his debut feature The Lunchbox (Dabba), a co-production between France’s ASAP Films, Germany’s rohfilm, New York-based Cine Mosaic and India’s Anurag Kashyap Films.
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NewsIndia's Everymedia makes indie marketing move
Nikhil Garth D’Rozario, former business head of India’s DAR Media, has teamed with Gautam Thakkar of EveryMedia Technologies to start a boutique entertainment marketing agency.
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NewsBahman Ghobadi calls on Iran to release brother
Behrouz Ghobadi, a production manager and short film director, is believed to have been detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, accused of acting against national security.
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FeaturesBeyond Film Bazaar
With the NFDC’s production initiatives steaming ahead, the government body has turned its attention to distribution and industry development. Liz Shackleton reports
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FeaturesIndia’s international horizons
Now in its sixth year, Goa’s Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 21-24) has become a key plank in the National Film Development Corporation’s strategy to revitalise Indian cinema. Liz Shackleton reports