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All Asia articles – Page 497
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Korea's UP sells Frozen Flower to Germany and Japan
Korea's United Pictures (UP) has sold director Yu Ha's upcoming period piece A Frozen Flower to Splendid for Germany and the Benelux, and to KNTV for Japan - for a cumulative total of $1.5m at the AFM. The Japan deal was said to have been for more than $1m.Lee Tae ...
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Screen Australia to review what constitutes an experienced producer
Screen Australia has been forced to revisit its plans to strongly favour experienced producers when it hands out development finance. The move is a result of increasing industry dissatisfaction over the agency's definition of experience. As a result, the agency has decided to re-examine that part of its guidelines.Speaking exclusively ...
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SPAA's Ginnane points to opportunities for Australian industry
Antony Ginnane, president of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) delivered an up-beat welcome address at SPAA's annual conference in Queensland, Australia.Despite describing the feature film industry as 'spectacularly unsuccessful' of late and 'the cultural equivalent of ethnic cleansing', Ginnane went on to describe the new producer offset as ...
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Sverak's Bottles picks up top prize at Damascus fest
Czech director Jan Sverak's Returnable Bottles was awarded with Gold in the feature competition of the 16th Damascus International Film Festival (November 1-11) on Tuesday night. French actress Catherine Deneuve attended the Syrian festival to present the award, although she handed it to the local Czech ambassador, as Sverak had ...
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Warlords, My Magic to open India's IFFI Goa fest
Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords and Singaporean director Eric Khoo's My Magic will open this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which is taking place in Goa from Nov 22-Dec 2. The closing film will be Majid Majidi's Berlin Silver Bear winner The Song Of Sparrows.About 5,000 delegates from ...
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Japan's Sabu returns to director's chair with The Crab Cannery Ship
Japanese filmmaker Sabu is returning to the director’s chair after a three-year hiatus with an adaptation of Takiji Kobayashi’s famed literarywork The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikosen).
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Tulpan wins highest accolade at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Kazakhstan director Sergei Dvortsevoy's debut drama Tulpan continued its run of worldwide accolades by winning the best feature film award at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) onQueensland'sGold Coast in Australia.Producer Karl Baumgartner, representing the big team of producers on the film, accepted the award.The film tells the charming ...
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Savage to star with Ge You in Chinese drama Gasp
US actor John Savage (The Thin Red Line) is joining Chinese star Ge You (The Banquet) in the cast of Chinese comedy drama Gasp, which is being directed by scriptwriter-turned-director Zhen Zhong. Hong Kong actress Kelly Lin, Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin and China's Liu Hua will also star in the ...
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Stylejam sells Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window in UK
Japanese independent Stylejam has sold director Yosuke (Tora) Fujita's comic love triangle story Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window Film for the UK. Stylejam also sold two films starring Joe Odagiri - humorous wedding feud story Then Summer Came to Cinema Valley for Korea, and Satoshi (In The Pool) ...
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Serenity Entertainment buys Paco for Taiwan from Showgate
Japan's Showgate has sold the hit 3D and live action film Paco And The Magical Book to Serenity Entertainment for Taiwan. Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories Of Matsuko), the film has an all-star cast including Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo), Koji Yakusho (Babel), and Anna Tsuchiya (Sakuran, Kamikaze Girls) - ...
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Indian shoot for $1.9m Australian drama The Waiting City
Shooting begins in Calcutta this week on he Waiting City, a $1.9m drama directed by Claire McCarthy and produced by Jamie Hilton.Radha Mitchell (Melinda And Melinda), Joel Edgerton (Kinky Boots) and newcomer Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen) are the Australian cast who begin filming on Tuesday. ...
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CJ Entertainment sells Mother to France, Thirst to UK
CJ Entertainment has pre-sold Bong Joon-ho's Mother to Diaphana for France and Park Chan-wook's Thirst to Palisades Tartan for UK. Diaphana previously distributed CJ's Secret Sunshine which it picked up immediately before last year's Cannes - where it took best actress for Jeon Do-yeon, opening it in France on 65 ...
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Gold View returns to homeland with The Clone
Japanese sales and production company Gold View has picked up the Wim Wenders executive-produced film The Clone Returns To The Homeland for international sales.When astronaut Kohei Takahara dies in the line of duty he is resurrected as a clone, but he and those around him find they face unexpected spiritual ...
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Sahamongkol closes deals for Ong Bak 2, Chocolate
Thailand's Sahamongkol has sold Tony Jaa's upcoming Ong Bak 2 and hit action flick Chocolate to Madman for Australia and New Zealand, CP Digital for Russia/CIS, and Mirax for Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Czech Republic.Star TV also picked up all rights for Chocolate in Taiwan. Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet ...
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Content takes on Japanese Oscar submission Departures
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Yojiro Takita's Departures, which is Japan's submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. Departures (Okuribito) is already a box-office hit in Japan, taking more than 3m admissions ($25m) and it also won Best Film at the Montreal Wrold Film Festival in August. Masahiro ...
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Fine Cut picks up sales on Break Away and Searching For The Elephant
Seoul-based Fine Cut has picked up international sales rights to LeeSong Hee-il's Break Away and SK Jhung's Searching For The Elephant (working title) starring heartthrob Jang Hyuk (Volcano High).Break Away is LeeSong's second feature after the controversial gay drama No Regret, which was at Pusan and Berlin.Based on true events, ...
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Arclight adds Australian ghost story Lake Mungo
Arclight Films has added the Australian ghost story Lake Mungo to its AFM sales slate and is exploring a US remake.Lake Mungo is screening at the market and tells of the paranormal activity that plagues a family following the drowning of a teenage girl.Joel Anderson wrote and directed the Darclight ...
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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 ...