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All Asia articles – Page 489
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Hyde Park works with Toonz, Gang Of 7 for Santa Claus
Hyde Park Entertainment and Singapore based Toonz Entertainment andLA-based Gang Of 7 Animation are collaborating on the CGI animatedfeature The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.Based on The Wizard Of Oz creator Frank L Baum's novel of the samename, the story charts Father Christmas' life from infancy toadulthood, focusing on ...
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Korea's So to star opposite Zhang in Sophie's Revenge
Koreanactor Ji-sub So (Rough Cut) will be the leading man opposite Zhang Ziyi in romantic comedy Sophie's Revenge, which is being co-produced by Korea's CJ Entertainment and China's Perfect World Culture. Zhang will play a cartoonist/writer Sophie who falls for a surgeon named Jeff (Ji-sub So). But an actress named ...
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Details of Japanese Sideways remake emerge
Details regarding the Japanese remake of Oscar-winning 2004 film Sideways have been announced by co-producers 20th Century Fox Japan and Fuji TV. Popular character actor Fumiyo Kohinata will take on the lead role played by Paul Giamatti in the original film. He will be joined by Katsuhisa Namase, Oscar nominee ...
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Japan's Rumble Fish files for bankruptcy
Japanese feature film and TV production company Rumble Fish Inc has filed for bankruptcy. The news was reported today by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd (TSR) credit reporting agency, the oldest such agency in Japan.Rumble Fish was established in 2001 by producer Takenori Sento. The company was behind several of Shinji ...
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Jinga Films sells Everything to Ruscico for Russia/CIS
UK-based sales company Jinga Films continues its AFM deals by selling all rights for Russia and CIS for Richard Hawkins' Everything to Ruscico.Ray Winstone stars in the thriller/drama.Jinga has also closed an eight-film package deal with Viswaas Films for India and Malaysia. Films in that package include Tom Tyrwhitt's youth ...
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In Focus: Australia opens for film business (Part 1)
Australian producers just had to sit on the ground at Cannes this year and a queue would form,' recalls leading Melbourne film lawyer Bruce Menzies.He is only half joking. Thanks to the introduction of one of the most generous financial incentives in the world, Australian film-makers now rank among the ...
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Mirovision, M to partner on Youth Is Reckless
Korea's Mirovision is partnering with M Production to produce Youth IsReckless, by Lee Myung-se, the director of the visual extravaganza M,martial arts mystery Duelists, and crime action film Nowhere To Hide.Youth Is Reckless is based on the Book of Five Rings, a classic samuraitreatise by Miyamoto Musashi, which Lee was ...
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M-Line pre-sells Kitchen to Japan's Showgate
New Korean sales outfit M-Line has pre-sold romantic drama Kitchen to Showgate for Japan.The $1.2m film is due for a February 2009 release in Korea. Starring Ju Ji-hun, from the pan-Asian TV series Princess Hour, the film follows members of a suicide club who end up in a gruesome survival ...
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Lightning dives into Prodigy's The Reef
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired worldwiderights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Prodigy Movies' survivalthriller The Reef.Lightning co-presidents Rich Goldberg and Richard Guardian are takingtheir first executive producers on Andrew Traucki's tale of a group ofholidaymakers in Australia who are terrorised by a giant shark aftertheir boat capsizes. Principal ...
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Shochiku sells Tadashi Mori's Panda Diary to Wild Bunch
Japanese entertainment conglomerate Shochiku has sold documentary PandaDiary to Wild Bunch for France, Benelux, Germany and Italy.Directed by Tadashi Mori, the documentary follows the lives ofendangered pandas who have never lived in the wild forest. Shot in theChendu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China and AdventureWorld in Japan, ...
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Maximum takes on international sales for Michod's Animal Kingdom
Maximum Films International has picked up international sales rights on writer-director David Michôd's crime thriller Animal Kingdom, starring Guy Pearce. Its allied releasing arm, Maximum Films Distribution, will handle the film in Canada. The film goes starts shooting in Melbourne early next year.The Australia-produced saga explores the Melbourne underworld, where ...
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Geoffrey Rush sings along with Bankside's Bran Nue Dae
Geoffrey Rush has signed on to lead the cast of Bran Nue Dae, which Bankside Films is selling here. Fellow Australian actors Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins and Dan Sultan will also star in the feature adaptation of the popular Australian stage musical. Rachel Perkins co-writes and directs.Principal photography started in ...
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CJ sells Bong Joon Ho's Mother to Bitters End for Japan
CJ Entertainment has sold The Host director Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming Mother to Bitters End for Japan.The $6m thriller is aiming for Cannes and a June 2009 release. Hot interest from Japanese buyers got the film a significant pre-sales price, according to CJ. The film stars young, popular actor Won ...
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Kashyap, Nair among film-makers selected for Film Bazaar
Camera d'Or winners Murali Nair and Shaji Karun and hot up-and-coming writer-director Anurap Kashyap are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the second edition of India's Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 26-29). Nair, who picked up Cannes' Camera d'Or award in 1999 for Throne Of Death, will ...
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Fortissimo announces pre-market sales on Gigantic, Food Inc
Fortissimo Films today announced a raft of pre-market sales to major territories, including Matt Aselton's Gigantic starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel to BIM Distribuzione for Italy. Robert Kenner's food industry expose, Food, Inc. which saw its international premiere at Toronto, was picked up by Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, United ...
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Showbox takes on Ski Jump, library, from KM Culture
Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has picked up KM Culture's upcoming sports action film Ski Jump (tentative title) directed by Kim Yong-hwa, who previously directed the hit 200 Pounds Beauty. Showbox has also made a deal to handle all KM Culture's upcoming and library titles for international sales, which include 200 Pounds ...
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Warner strikes innovative digital VOD plan in China
Warner Bros announced that it will become the first Hollywood studio to release films digitally in China in a pioneering transactional VOD initiative that also marks the latest strike in the war on piracy.Studio titles such as I Am Legend, Fool's Gold and Speed Racer will be made available to ...
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China Film cuts Chung's scenes from Mei Lanfang biopic
State-owned China Film Group Corporation has confirmed that it has removed all scenes featuring Hong Kong actress Gillian Chung from Chen Kaige's upcoming Mei Lanfang biopic, whose English title has recently been finalised as Forever Enthralled.The film, about legendary Beijing opera singer Mei Lanfang's private and public lives,is a co-production ...
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Red Cliff opens at peak of Japanese box office
John Woo's Red Cliff Part 1 opened at the top of the Japanese box office the weekend of November 1st-3rd, dethroning Suspect X's four-week run in the number one position.Red Cliff opened November 1 on 549 screens, earning $9.64m (Y961.79m) on 825,000 admissions. The screen count represents the highest ever ...
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American Film Market: Asia-Pacific buzz films
Screen looks at the Asia-Pacific buzz projects at this year's American Film Market (November 5-12).Click on a territory to see moreJapanSouth KoreaThailandHong Kong/China/TaiwanAustralia and New Zealand