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All Asia articles – Page 492
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Preview: Tokyo International Film Festival
Despite its size and status as Japan's only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (Fiapf) accredited event, the Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has sometimes been overlooked outside Japan.But as Tiff enters its 21st edition (October 18-26), a new mission statement together with Asia's growing interconnection is bringing the centrepiece ...
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Moment In June to open World Film Festival of Bangkok
Thai drama A Moment In June, directed by Nattapong O Wongtrinetrakul, will open this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok (Oct 24-Nov 1), while Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light will close the event. A Moment In June focuses on a group of individuals in modern Thai society and is screening ...
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Bigfoot strides into US theatrical distribution
US-Asian production and finance company Bigfoot Entertainment is entering US theatrical distribution with the release of its horror feature Midnight Movie on October 17. Produced by Bigfoot CEO Kacy Andrews, Liam Finn and Jacques Thelemaque, the film marks the directorial debut of Jack Messitt from a screenplay written by Mark ...
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Painted Skin heads record-breaking holiday week in China
Box office during the seven-day National Day holiday period in mainland China reached a record $24.85m (RMB170m), according to figures released yesterday, which is a 220% increase on the same period last year. Gordon Chan's fantasy drama Painted Skin, Benny Chan's action thriller Connected and 3D movie Journey To The ...
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Pusan reviews
Screen critics review key films at this year's Pusan International Film Festival in Korea.Click on the title to see review:Awaking From A Dream (Freddy Mas Franqueza)Breathless (Yang Ik-june)Da Da's Dance (Zhang Huan)Dim Sum Funeral (Anna Chi)The Gift To Stalin (Rustem Abdrashev)Himalaya, Where The Wind Dwells (Jeon Soo-il) Miao Miao (Cheng ...
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Japanese actor Ken Ogata dies aged 71
71-year-old Japanese actor Ken Ogata died on October 5, local news reported today. The exact cause of death is unknown, but Ogata had been battling liver cancer. A private funeral was held by close relatives at a temple in Tokyo on Tuesday morning. Born in Tokyo in 1937, Ogata began ...
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Linha De Passe to open ninth Tokyo Filmex
Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas' Linha De Passe will open the ninth edition of Tokyo Filmex (November 22-30). The closing film will be Cannes FIPRESCI prize winner Delta, directed by Hungary's Kornel Mundruczo. Ten competition films will vie for the Grand Prize of Y1m ($9,830), including Waltz With Bashir and ...
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Asian Film Market wraps quiet but productive third edition
Pusan's Asian Film Market (Oct 3-6) closed its third edition on Monday night, with most delegates agreeing it had felt like a quiet event, but many saying they had still found it productive. Certainly there wasn't much foot traffic at the market, held for the first time on three floors ...
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Ahmad, Lee Chang-dong take top PPP awards
Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad's Forget-Me-Not, which is being produced by Japan's Wa Entertainment, picked up the $20,000 Pusan Awardat the closing of the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) on Monday night. The project tells the story of a Malay girl who goes to visit her relatives in Japan after her Japanese ...
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PT Jababeka, Multivision team on Indonesian studio
Indonesian real estate company PT Jababeka and production house Multivision Plus are joining forces to build a major studio complex, Indonesia Movieland, in the suburbs of Jakarta. The complex, which will take five years to complete, will be spread across 36 hectares on the 5,600-hectare Kota Jababeka development. The partners ...
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KOFIC chairman declares Korean film industry in crisis
At the Korean Film Industry: Status And Vision conference over the weekend in Pusan, Korean Film Council (KOFIC) chairman Kang Han-sup took fire as he proclaimed the local industry in a 'great depression' while refusing to speak upon any detailed plans for overcoming the crisis. Busan Metropolitan City, at the ...
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Asian policy-makers to jointly examine incentives
After two days of well-attended seminars and meetings, the first Asia PacificFilm Policy Forum closed yesterday at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) with a joint declaration tocontinue holdingthe event,and to jointly promote the film and media industries within the region. Around 37 representatives from 14 countries agreed to make ...
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RGM set to tap Asian material for global distribution
Singapore-based RGM Entertainment, which has recently completed raising a $400m production fund, is now actively seeking Asian material with the aim of producing big-budget features for global distribution, said CEO Devesh Chetty at Pusan's Asian Film Funds Forum (AFFF)on Sunday. Chetty outlined the company's goals for the fund, which will ...
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China's Golden Globe boards Qin Shi Huang Project
China's Golden Globe Pictures, based in the city of Hangzhou, has signed an agreement with Korea's Odyssey Pictures to co-produce a $30m English-language feature, tentatively titled The Qin Shi Huang Project, which already has a French partner attached. In July this year, Odyssey had signed an agreement with Ariel Zeitoun ...
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Busan, Sapporo sign MoUfor film collaboration
The Korean city of Busan and Japanese city Sapporo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on film production, distribution and training programmes within the film industry in each city. The MoU was signed in Busan at the Asian Film Policy Forum during the Pusan International Film Festival ...