All Asia articles – Page 429
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Wild Bunch comes on board for Wong Kar Wai's Grandmasters
Wild Bunch’s slate also includes Under The Hawthorn Tree, Arrietty, The Moth Diaries, The First Beautiful Thing and The Squad.
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Double Edge boards Yip's Chinese Ghost Story
Taiwan-based Double Edge Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Wilson Yip’s $20m A Chinese Ghost Story.
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My Name is Khan to become first Indian revenue-sharing release in China
China will import Indian filmmaker Karan Johar’s My Name is Khan to China around the end of this month state-owned distribution company Huaxia Film Distribution confirmed today.
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Winchester Capital starts new $250m fund
New fund to co-finance studio pictures is partnering with Toho-Towa, Kadokawa and RGM.
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First four films chosen under New Zealand low-budget initiative
Guy Pigden, one-time employee of the UK’s Scala Productions, is one of four directors who will make the first ultra low-budget films under the New Zealand Film Commission’s (NZFC) “escalator” initiative.
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Chinese venture capitalist to fund film startup FromMovie Entertainment
The company’s first slate will include a film adaptation of Chinese bestseller Founder, a 3D animation and an adaptation of internet novel Marriage-Home; Xu Xiaoping to be chairman of the group, Donny Liang to serve as CEO.
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Waititi says NZ industry needs to compromise to continue work on films like The Hobbit
New Zealand director Taika Waititi said that the resolution for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit to shoot in New Zealand will be a boost to the local Kiwi industry as well.
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Intimate Grammar takes top prize in Tokyo, China has strong showing
Director Nir Bergman’s Intimate Grammar was awarded the Tokyo sakura grand prix and $50,000 at the closing ceremony of the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), which wrapped up on Sunday (October 31).
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Seren Yuce's Majority wins best film prize at Mumbai Film Festival
Oliver Stone and Manoj Kumar were presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the festival’s closing ceremony.
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"Busy" TIFFCOM sees visitors and exhibitors increase
The Tokyo International Film Festival’s market reports rise in visitors and exhibitors.
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Yuya Ishii picks up award as Tokyo Project Gathering wraps
The director picked up this year’s TPG Award for Hara Ga Kore Nande
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Features
Screen International launches Global Guide To Soft Money 2011
The annual PDF report, available to buy online, is a territory-by-territory guide to the most lucrative international production incentives.
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Barriers to entry in Japan
In a brutal Japanese market for world cinema, the Tokyo International Film Festival is doing everything in its power to encourage buyers to take on foreign films.
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Filmko recruits Hollywood talents for 3D Monkey King shoot
Hong Kong’s Filmko is teaming up with Mandarin Films to finance and produce $30m 3D fantasy Monkey King, combining Hollywood stereoscopic and VFX talents with major Asia stars.
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Hobbit set for New Zealand shoot
The two films will be made in New Zealand after two days of emergency talks between studio chief and the country’s Prime Minister
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TIFFCOM panelists give advice to European filmmakers in Japan
European filmmakers need to be savvy about new media, film festivals and diversified sales models in Japan, according to panelists at a UniJapan Entertainment Forum on European films in the Japanese market today at TIFFCOM.
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Joint Entertainment gets Memory Loss in Toyko
The Taipei-based sales agent picks up title touted as Taiwan’s first 3D animation.