All Asia articles – Page 391
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NewsBill Gates, Ari Emanuel, Bob Bakish among speakers at Abu Dhabi Media Summit
Bill Gates to give opening keynote at conference exploring digital frontiers, which runs Oct 9 - 11; Jim Wuthrich, president, international home entertainment & digital, Warner Bros, and Robert Kyncl, global head of content, YouTube, also among speakers.
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NewsScreen to publish dailies at Dubai International Film Festival
Screen International will publish dailies at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), which this year takes place December 9-16.
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NewsTokyo fest screening of Yim Ho's Floating City cancelled
Hong Kong-China production appears to have been withdrawn due to escalating political tensions between China and Japan.
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NewsMumbai film festival unveils competition sections
The Mumbai Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its competition sections for this year’s edition (Oct 18-25), including its new competition for Indian features, India Gold 2012.
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NewsOz crowd-funding platform starts to see results
Pozible, Australia’s first and largest crowd-funding platform, has helped filmmakers raise $1.37m (A$1.3m) since its May 2010 launch, while total pledges have quadrupled in the past year.
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NewsGalloping Horse, Reliance join forces to buy Digital Domain
Beijing-based Galloping Horse and India’s Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) have formed a joint venture to buy bankrupt US visual effects studio Digital Domain for $30.2m.
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NewsHong Kong, Thailand, India announce Oscar submissions
Hong Kong, Thailand and India have all unveiled their entries for the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards.
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NewsDhoom 3 to be first Indian film presented in IMAX
India’s Yash Raj Films has announced that upcoming action thriller Dhoom 3 will be the first Bollywood film to be released in the IMAX format.
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FeaturesIndian knight rises
Mumbai-based DAR Motion Pictures is shaking up the Indian film business with its focus on four strands of production and acquisition of major Hollywood films.
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NewsThe Sapphires stays strong at Oz box office
After six weeks in cinemas, home-grown musical The Sapphires is about $1m away from becoming one of Australia’s top 15 local films of all time.
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NewsTokyo International Film Festival unveils line-up
Five world premieres in the competition section, including Riri Riza’s Atambua 39° Celsius; Hiroshi Okuhara’s The Black Square and Wang Jing’s Feng Shui.
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FeaturesHollywood films gain traction in India
This year, US studios have scored big in the idiosyncratic and fragmented territory with films such as The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man.
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News400 Boys set for October shoot
Alastair Paton’s action film, budgeted at $26m, set for eight-week shoot on location in Hong Kong, Macau and at Guangzhou’s ACE Studios in China.
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NewsFinecut seals further deals on Pieta
Korean sales company Finecut has closed further deals on Kim Ki-duk’s Venice Golden Lion winner Pieta, including the sale of rights for French-speaking Europe (excluding Belgium) to Pretty Pictures.
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NewsPhilippines selects BWAKAW as Oscar submission
The Film Academy of the Philippines has selected BWAKAW as the country’s entry to the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards.
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NewsJan Chapman to head Asia Pacific Screen Awards' international jury
Producer [pictured] will lead six-member jury for the upcoming sixth annual APSA, to take place in Brisbane on Nov 23.
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NewsCTE expands distribution deal with Lionsgate
Hong Kong-based Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) has expanded its distribution deal with Lionsgate to include Japan and Korea, in addition to China and South-East Asia.
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NewsIOSONO brings 3D sound to Asia
German company recently worked on Korean drama R2B: Return to Base.