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All Asia articles – Page 548
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PUSAN: Casting directors discuss cultural differences
International casting directors, including Tokyo-based Yoko Narahashi and Susan Shopmaker from the US, talked about the differences in casting practices between their respective territories in a seminar at Pusan on Monday. Part of the Co-prod PRO and Star Summit Asia programmes, the panel also featured Sung-hye Park from Korean talent ...
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PUSAN: Avex, SM Entertainment outline pan-Asian plans
Japan 's Avex Group Holdings and Korea 's SM Entertainment laid out their joint plans for future pan-Asian co-productions at a seminar held at Pusan 's Grand Hotel as part of the Co-production PRO programme. The seminar was chaired by Avex senior executive director Takashi Araki and SM Entertainment CEO ...
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Crows: Episode 0 (Kurozu 0)
Dir. Takashi Miike. Japan, 2007. 120 min. What is there left to say about Takashi Miike that hasn't been said yet, in ample detail and often in learned studies' He is, without any doubt, the most prolific filmmaker around, barely 47-years-old and credited with 85 feature films. Only ...
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PUSAN: France's Les Films du Preau acquires Mukhsin
French children films specialist Les Films du Preau has acquired all rights to Yasmin Ahmad's Mukhsin, making it the first Malaysian film ever to be sold to France. The deal was concluded by the film's producer-distributor Grand Brilliance and Delphis Films from Canada. Korea 's Kim Media has also taken ...
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PUSAN: iHQ unveils Korea-Taiwan co-production Island
Seoul-based sales agent iHQ has announced an English-language Korea-Taiwan co-production, Island, to be directed by Taiwan's Leste Chen (The Heirloom). The film tells the story of two families who go for a vacation on a deserted island that creates murderous doppelgangers of anyone who sets foot on it. Chen previously ...
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PUSAN NEW SELLER: Taiwan's Joint moves into international sales
Taiwan's Joint Entertainment, founded by James Liu, has expanded from distribution into international sales. Heading the company's slate are Singing Chen's God Man Dog, which is screening in PIFF's New Currents section, and The Most Distant Course, which picked up an award in Critics' Week at this year's Venice. A ...
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PUSAN NEW SELLER: Movie Plus sets sights on Asian production
Movie Plus Group, the international producer-distributor founded by French animation producer Jean Chalopin, is making its Asian market debut here in Pusan. Chalopin, who has credits including animation series Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff and Dennis The Menace, was one of the founders of animation studio DIC, which originated in France and ...
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PUSAN: Asian Film Market has quiet but steady opening
The second edition of the Asian Film Market kicked off in Pusan on Monday (Oct 8) with quiet corridors on the sales office floors, but a strong turn-out at concurrent seminars and projects markets. Around 1,100 participants had registered by the end of Monday, in addition to 400 guests at ...
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MIPCOM: Celestial expands reach into Slovenia, Israel
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has signed exclusive TV distribution deals for its Shaw Brothers library with Slovenia's Viasat Broadcasting UK Limited (Viasat) and Israel's SAT-Interactive Limited (SAT). The Viasat deal marks the first time that the Shaw Brothers martial arts films will be available on TV3 Slovenia. Titles included in ...
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PUSAN: Motion 101 makes first strike with The Fist
Showbox Mediaplex affiliate Motion 101 has announced its first production will be The Fist (working title) by Park Kwang-hyun, the director of 2005 hit Welcome To Dongmakgol. Taesung Jeong, former COO at the major distributor Showbox, moved to Mediaplex's production shingle as of Aug 1 to focus on the upstart ...
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PUSAN: Five film commissions join AFCNet ranks
With Asian nations vying for the lucrative international location shooting business, five Asian film commissioners are making their debut as new members of AFCNet at BIFCOM, the locations showcase held concurrently with Pusan 's Asian Film Market. Australia 's Gold Coast City Council, Philippines Film Development Council, Thailand Film Office, ...
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PUSAN: Thailand's Mono Film dials up Missed Calls
After scoring a hit with romantic drama Me Myself which was subsequently bought for a Korean remake, up-and-coming Thai production house Mono Film is attending Pusan's Asian Film Market with new romantic drama Missed Calls. Directed by Piti Chaturaphat, the picture is about three young people who are compelled to ...
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PUSAN: Irving, Baek to star in Fire Circle's Hanji Box
US actress Amy Irving is to star in the first US-Korea co-production to shoot in Seoul with funding and support from the Seoul Film Commission (SFC). Fire Circle Films announced the project at Pusan, in preparation for a round of co-production meetings they are planning for the market. Based on ...
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PUSAN: KOFIC, UK Film Council sign distribution agreement
The UK Film Council (UKFC) and Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have signed a co-distribution agreement, under which they will provide p&a support to films from each other's territories. Under the terms of the agreement, which takes effect in November 2007 and lasts for two years, KOFIC will allocate $200,000 to ...
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Eros signs string of new media deals in SE-Asia
India 's Eros International, which has a library of around 1,300 films, has signed multiple content licensing deals with leading telcos and on-demand service providers in South-East Asia. Among the deals, Eros will be the exclusive Bollywood content provider to Mauritius Telecom's video-on-demand (VoD) service, carried on its IPTV platform, ...
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PUSAN: Asia Pacific Actors Network launches at PIFF
The Asia Pacific Actors Network (APAN) saw its launch today (Oct 5) at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Headed by veteran Korean actors Ahn Sung-ki, Kang Soo-yeon and Park Joong-hoon, APAN is creating a film development fund to provide pre-production costs to up-and-coming directors, with funds from producer/distributor M&FC, ...
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PUSAN: TBS slate headed by two world premieres
Japan's Tokyo Broadcast System (TBS) has unveiled its Pusan slate which is headed by two world premieres screening at the event - Natsuki Imai's Sky Of Love and Miike Takashi's Crows: Episode 0. Sky Of Love will premiere in Pusan's Asian Film Market on October 8 and 9 before it ...
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PUSAN: Busan City breaks ground on $35m post facility
Marking the second day of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), Busan Metropolitan City has broken ground for the Busan Post-Production Facility - to be built in the Centum City complex in Haeundae. The facility will house a film lab and studios for digital intermediate, editing, computer graphics, sound recording ...
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PUSAN: Huayi Brothers to produce $20m D-Project
Chinese producer-distributor Huayi Brothers will be commencing sales on a $20m suspense thriller, to be directed by Hong Kong 's Tsui Hark, at Pusan 's Asian Film Market next week. The project, which has the working title D-Project, is based on the real-life Tang Dynasty magistrate Di Renjie (aka Judge ...
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Universal picks up NA rights to Midnight Eagle
Universal Pictures has acquired North American rights to Japanese thriller Midnight Eagle, which is produced by a production consortium headed by Universal Pictures Japan. Co-producer, distributor and world sales agent Shochiku made the announcement following the film's world premiere in Los Angeles on October 2 at Universal Studios. Teruki Matsumoto, ...