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All Asia articles – Page 483
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...
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HKIFF to open with Shinjuku Incident, Night And Fog
Derek Yee's Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan, and Ann Hui's Night And Fog will open this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 22-April 13) which announced its line-up today. The world premiere of both films will take place on March 22, one night before the opening of Hong Kong ...
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Busan celebrates opening of AZ Works post-production complex
After five years of work, the city of Busan and the Busan Film Commission (BFC) are celebrating the opening of the 'AZ Works on the beach' post-production complex in Busan's newly developing Centum City. AZ Works, which also has labs in Seoul and Beijing, is headed by CEOLee Yong Gi, ...
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HKIFF to celebrate 25th anniversary of Film Workshop
This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will feature a special sidebar programme celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong production house Film Workshop, founded by filmmaker Tsui Hark and veteran producer Nansun Shi. Entitled 'A Tribute to Romantic Visions: 25th Anniversary of Film Workshop', the sidebar will screen ...
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Regent sets May as US release for Oscar winning Departures
Regent Releasing and Here Media will release their Japanese foreign language Oscar winner Departures in May, the distributor said following the picture's Academy Awards win at the weekend.Yojiro Takita's victory marked the first time Regent and Here received an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the ...
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Singapore film festival to open with Sincerely Yours
The 22nd Singapore International Film Festival (April 14-25) will open with Sincerely Yours from debuting Taiwanese feature director Rich Lee. The film explores the plight of illegal foreign workers in Taiwan with a multi-national cast. The festival will close with Milk from Turkey, a 'quietly stunning and poetic film about ...
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CJ Entertainment to invest $60m in local and overseas projects
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment CEO Katherine Kim has announced that the company will be investing $46.5m - $53.1m this year in 13-15 local releases and another $6.64m in 5-10 overseas projects in the US, China and Japan. Speaking to local press, Kim also talked about Korea's dying ancillary markets ...
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Low-budget doc stampedes South Korean box office
Old Partner, a documentary about an old man and his cow, has topped the South Korean box office with 419,295 admissions from 276 screens this past weekend. The sleeper hit, which is distributed by Indiestory both in Korea and overseas, has accumulated a record 1,393,079 admissions for a documentary, and ...
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AWPto handle sales onTaraporevala's Little Zizou
LA-based American World Pictures (AWP) has picked up international rights to Indian screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala's directorial debut, Little Zizou, from The Indian Film Company (TIFC). Produced by TIFC and executive produced by Mira Nair, the film recently won two awards - best director and best screenplay - at the Mahindra ...
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Wonderful Town wins top honours at Thai Oscars
Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town scooped five awards, including best film and best director, at Thailand's leading film honours, the Subhanahongsa Awards, on Sunday night (Feb 22). The indie drama also won best screenplay - which also went to Assarat - best cinematography and best art direction. A love story set ...
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Departures sweeps Japanese academy awards
Yojiro Takita's Departures picked up ten prizes, including best picture of 2008, at the 32nd Japan Academy prize awards ceremony, held Friday evening at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo. The film, which had thirteen nominations, also won best director, best actor (Masahiro Motoki), best supporting actor (Tsutomu ...
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Korea's Sponge Entertainment wins Shortbus ratings battle
After two years, Sponge Entertainment has won the fight to screen John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus in South Korea with a 'Teenager Restricted' rating. The film follows a sex therapist, who has never experienced an orgasm, as she is introduced to the people in an underground sex club ...
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Frames wraps with talk of cost-cutting and collaboration
As the three-day FICCI Frames media and entertainment conference came to a close in Mumbai yesterday, industry leaders had agreed on three recession-busting strategies - collaboration, improving consumer relations and cutting costs. Speaking at the closing session, Zee chairman Subhash Chandra spoke of the entertainment industry's need to pull together ...
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Australia's ABC TV considers investing in film
Australian broadcaster, the ABC, is hoping to invest in 15 feature films over the next three years. 'We must be one of the few public broadcasters in the developed western world that does not have a connection with its national feature film industry,' said the director of ABC TV, Kim ...
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Dasgupta quits as CEO of India's Multi Screen Media
Kunal Dasgupta has quit as CEO of India's Multi Screen Media (MSM), previously known as Sony Entertainment Television (SET), after almost 14 years in the role. Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) issued a statement on Thursday saying that Dasgupta had resigned for 'personal reasons'. However, local press is speculating that ...
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South Australian Film Corp launches producer equity scheme
South Australian Premier Mike Rann has announced the introduction of a producer equity scheme that will give producers of films with investment from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) cash up front and a bigger share of the rewards from successful films. Under the scheme the SAFC will channel the ...
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Indian film industry revenues to remain flat in 2009
Following years of rapid growth, the combined revenues of the Indian film industry, including box office and ancillary revenues, are expected to remain flatin 2009at around $2.2bn (Rs109.2bn), according to a joint FICCI-KPMG report. Long-term prospects remain strong - the report also stated that the industry would grow at a ...
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India's FICCI Frames conference opens in reflective mood
The tenth FICCI Frames entertainment convention got underway in Mumbai today (Feb 17) with industry leaders chewing over the impact that the global financial crisis is having on the local film and television industries. Although domestic box office picked up in the fourth quarter of 2008, India's film industry is ...
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UK Film Council takes delegation to FICCI Frames in Mumbai
On the back of the success of Slumdog Millionaire and with the UK India co-production treaty in place, UK film companies will travel to Mumbai to meet their Indian counterparts and to attend the 10th edition of India's FICCI Frames Entertainment Conference. UK film sales, production, facilities and service companies ...
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Motion Picture Association opens Mumbai office
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has opened an office in Mumbai to represent the US film, video and TV industries at a time when the US studios are stepping up their investment in Indian film and TV. The newly-established Motion Picture Distribution Association (India) Pvt Ltd will work with local ...