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All Asia articles – Page 403
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NewsOptimum strikes UK deal for $25m Taiwanese epic with Fortissimo
Venice competitor now titled Warrior of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale.
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NewsTony Leung to star in Mei Ah's spy thriller Windseeker
Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertainment will produce four new films set in mainland China, with budgets totaling $50m.
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NewsChan, Mak launch HK production outfit Kudos Films
Veteran talent manager and producer Willie Chan has launched a Hong Kong-based production company, Kudos Films, in partnership with actor Juno Mak.
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NewsMedia Asia expands into mainland China
Media Asia secures Chinese private equity funding through investment deal.
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NewsRob Cohen to direct $100m war epic for CJ, Grapevine
Korea’s CJ E&M Pictures and Grapevine Entertainment have attached Rob Cohen to direct $100m war epic 1950, described as the biggest-budget project ever undertaken by the Korean film industry.
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FeaturesAsian indies still financed the old fashioned way
Despite the proliferation of new media platforms in Asia, the region’s genre filmmakers are sticking to tried-and-tested formulas to finance their films.
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NewsSingapore’s Golden Village to screen Ayumi concerts
Singaporean exhibitor Golden Village is planning to screen two of Japanese pop star Ayumi Hamasaki’s recent concert tours at its flagship theatres.
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NewsScreen Australia backs films inspired by Bon Scott, Michael Hutchence
Agency also gives development financing to new films by Adam Elliot and Bruce Beresford.
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Walter Morgan joins Canadian entertainment company TGNA
It is part of the company’s campaign to foster co-production opportunities between Canada and China.
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NewsLuke and Meek to return to the UK
Industry veterans Ashley Luke and Scott Meek are leaving Australia to return to the UK.
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NewsDisney offers to buy out partners in India’s UTV
The Walt Disney Company has made a $454m offer to buy out its partners in Mumbai-based UTV Software Communications, the parent company of film producer-distributor UTV Motion Pictures.
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NewsHarry Potter may end Indonesia’s US film drought
Indonesian officials say that Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 will be released in Indonesia this weekend, ending a five-month dispute between MPAA members, the Indonesian government and local distributors.
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NewsShaw Brothers movies to make debut on African pay-TV
Hong Kong’s Celestial Pictures has licensed a package of martial arts titles from its Shaw Brothers library to Sony Max, the 24-hour action and reality channel operated by Sony Pictures Television in Africa.
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NewsThree producers to head to UK's PFM after Melbourne's 37º South pitches
Producer Marian Macgowan pitches Gillian Armstrong’s The Great, with Mia Wasikowska and Annette Bening attached.
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NewsTerracotta Distribution adds new horror imprint
It will launch in October with the release of Yoon Hong-seung’s Korean horror Death Bell.
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NewsExhibitors and film companies do their part to save energy in electricity-needy Japan
Several exhibitors and film companies have announced their strategies for cutting electric power use this summer in the wake of supply shortages since the March 11 disaster.
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Emperor stakes out Lunar New Year release for Viral Factor
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has announced that its upcoming $25m thriller The Viral Factor will be released in time for Lunar New Year 2012.