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All Asia articles – Page 486
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Japanese box office down 1.8% in 2008
According to annual data published today by The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren), overall box office revenues for 2008 totalled $2.164bn (Y194.84bn), a 1.8% decrease from 2007's $2.204bn (Y198.44bn). The figure represents earnings on 160.49 million admissions, a 1.7% drop on the previous year's 163.19m cinemagoers. The average ...
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Finecut picks up new feature from Hong Sang-soo
Seoul-based Finecut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's upcoming feature Jal Aljido Mot Hamyeonsuh (original title). Currently in post-production, the film has yet to settle on an international title, although the original Korean title means 'as if you even know properly' or as Finecut puts ...
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Red Cliff II scales Korea's Lunar New Year box office
The second part of John Woo's action epic Red Cliff topped South Korea's Lunar New Year holiday charts, with the film grossing $2.7m since its release on Jan 22. Distributed locally by co-financier Showbox Mediaplex, the film took in 588,683 admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s integrated box ...
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Icon scores foreign film nods for Australia's FCCA Awards
Icon distributed three of the eight films nominated in the two best foreign film categories of the 25th annual Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) Awards, it was announced today. The films are In Bruges and Slumdog Millionaire in the English language category and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly ...
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CJ picks up two KAFA films debuting in the Berlinale
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to two Berlinale Forum films - Members Of The Funeral and The Day After - both from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)'s inaugural cycle of feature-length graduation films. Set for its international premiere in Berlin, Baek Seung-bin's debut ...
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Japan's NTV acquires 34% stake in Nikkatsu film studios
Major Japanese broadcast network Nippon Television Network Corp (NTV) has acquired a 34% stake in Nikkatsu film studios. NTV cited the value of Nikkatsu's complete production cycle and its distribution-exhibition businesses as the main reason for its acquisition. Established in 1912, Nikkatsu also previously served as a production partner on ...
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Katharine Kim appointed CEO ofCJ Entertainment
Katharine Kim has been appointed CEO of leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment. She replaces Kim Joo-sung, who was appointed to head cable company CJ Media in a slew of executive movements announced by conglomerate parentCJ Group yesterday. Having joined CJ Entertainment in 2005, Katharine Kim has become the first woman ...
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France well represented in Adelaide's 13 competition titles
The Adelaide Film Festival has chosen 13 films for its competition section including two that will have their world premieres at the festival, Granaz Moussavi's My Tehran For Sale, and Australian director Sarah Watt's My Year Without Sex. France has the most contenders in the line-up with Sylvie Verheyde's a ...
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M-Line Distribution picks up Scandal Makers and A Frozen Flower
Sales agent M-Line Distribution has picked up international sales rights to top Korean box office hits Scandal Makers (a.k.a. Overspeed Scandal) and A Frozen Flower. Scandal Makers has been an unexpected hit comedy starring Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) as a former pop star confronted by not one, but two ...
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Chou and Lin to co-star in adventure film Ci Ling
Chou will reunite with Kung Fu Dunk director Chu Yen-ping in the $14.6m (RMB100m) production. Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation, Beijing-based TV production company Joy Media and Taipei-based Chang Hong Entertainment, backer of Kung Fu Dunk, will jointly finance and produce the film. The story of the film tells ...
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Sony launches Blu-ray manufacturing in China
Sony's Shanghai-based subsidiary company Shanghai Epic Music Entertainment has launched China's first Blu-ray disc manufacturing plant in the city's Song Jiang Industrial Development Zone. According to Wu Xiao, CEO of Shanghai Epic, the Blu-ray discs manufactured at the Shanghai plant will be mainly used for the domestic market. The facility ...
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird tops nominations for Asian Film Awards
The Good, The Bad, The Weird - Kim Jee-woon's rollicking Oriental Western -has racked upeight nominations for this year's Asian Film Awards, including those for best film, director and cinematographer. Song Kang-ho picked up a nod for best actor, while Jung Woo-sung and Lee Byung-hun both got nominated in the ...
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Red Cliff II dominates Asian territories
John Woo's Red Cliff II dominated cinemas in Chinese-language territories for the weekend January 15-18. By Sunday, January 18, the film had taken over $30.54m in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and mainland China. The film opened in both Hong Kong and Taiwan on January 15. Its Hong Kong release saw ...
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Pandemic topples Wall-E's run at top of Japanese box office
Japanese disease thriller Pandemic (Kansen Retto) ended Wall-E's three week run in the number one spot at the local box office this past weekend. Produced by TBS and distributed by Toho on 324 screens, Pandemic earned $3.64m (Y330m) on 225,000 admissions. Toho predicts a final gross of over $22m (Y2b) ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight South Korea, National Film Board
To that end, the festival's 'Spotlight On' program will commission guest programmers to select their favourite NFB documentaries. 'The National Film Board of Canada is the reason I am a documentary programmer,' said Hot Docs director of programming Sean Farnel in a statement. 'I eagerly await the selections from our ...
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Reality check needed on film finance procedures and projections
It is not meaningful or helpful to assert that Canada or a particular US state is more attractive than South Africa, the UK, or any other popular location, that’s according to two Australians whose business it is to assist producers to secure financial incentives across the world.‘Circumstances, including financing plans, ...
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Yubari fest to premiere new films from Takashi Miike and Yojiro Takita
Takashi Miike's Crows Zero 2 and Departures director Yojiro Takita's Tsurikichi Sanpei (Sanpei The Fisherman) will be among the world premieres at this year's edition of the resurrected Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (YIFFF), which runs February 26 to March 2. YIFFF organizers announced that Takashi Miike's Crows Zero 2 ...
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Profile: David U Lee's The Beijing connection
China-US co-productions have become popular over recent years - a trend that is likely to continue given the success of action adventure The Forbidden Kingdom. But, as many producers have discovered, navigating China's political landscape and vastly different production culture can be as daunting as one-on-one armed combat with the ...