All Asia articles – Page 550
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Curzon Artificial Eye, NFTS back Ahmed's The Last Thakur
Shooting will begin next month in Bangladesh on Sadik Ahmed's The Last Thakur, the 'Spaghetti Eastern' that is being co-produced by Curzon Artificial Eye and the UK's National Film & Television School. The film is being executive produced by Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell and Daniel Chamier. The producer is Tamsin ...
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Jakarta to close with premiere of Indonesian film Chants Of Lotus
The ninth Jakarta International Film Festival, or Jiffest, will for the first time close with a local Indonesian production, the world premiere of Nia Dinata's Chants of Lotus. The omnibus film of four stories addresses woman issues which are rarely portrayed in contemporary Indonesian cinema. The multiple effort is directed ...
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Jakarta fest to open with Persepolis, close with Lotus
The 9th Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest), which takes place Dec 7-16, will for the first time close with a local Indonesian film, the world premiere of Nia Dinata's Chants Of Lotus. The omnibus film of four stories addresses poignant women's issues which are rarely portrayed in today's Indonesian cinema. ...
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Mumbai, London sign co-operation agreement
London and Mumbai have solidified the relationship between their two film production industries by signing a city-to-city agreement. Signed by Film London and the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, the agreement sees the two cities pledge to 'share ideas and best practice on domestic and international film production ...
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Rotterdam reveals first competitors from Japan, Malaysia,Thailand
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23-Feb 3) has selected the first three films for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. They are genre-bending autobiographical family project Waltz In Starlight by Shingo Wakagi (Japan); Pusan award winner Flower In The Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) about two motherless brothers; and ...
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Medusa makes strides with Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi
Italian distributor Medusa Film made a solid imprint on the international top 40 this weekend with two films - Matrimonio Alle Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi - generating more than $7m and accounting for 5.2% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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UTV's Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal lines up Reebok deal
UTV Motion Pictures has struck a deal for Reebok to retail products related to its film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal across 535 stores in India. The film is about a struggling Asian football team in England. UTV noted that it had already recouped the film's $4m production costs ahead of ...
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Eros strikes joint venture with Mukta/Red Carpet
Indian media company Eros International has entered into a joint venture with Red Carpet Films to co-produce three to four films per year. Manish Goswami's Red Carpet Films is a Mukta Arts company. In a separate deal, Eros has taken global distribution rights to three Mukta Arts releases: Nagesh Kukunoor's ...
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China's Enlight Media to merge with Hurray Holding
Beijing-based film and TV producer Enlight Media is set to merge with NASDAQ-listed Chinese ring tone provider Hurray! Holding, to form a new company called Hurray Enlight Media Group. The merger is a share exchange deal, valued at around $160m, after which Enlight Media will hold 42% of the initial ...
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Vikram Bhatt shoots supernatural love story in Yorkshire
Yorkshire, which hosted this summer's Indian International Film Academy awards (IIFAs), is now hosting a new shoot by Indian film-makers. Vikram Bhatt is directing 1920 with a 17-day shoot in Bolton Abbey, Allerton Castle, Bramham Park and Ripley Castle. The film is a supernatural love story about an Anglo Indian ...
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Happy Feet's George Miller creates joint venture with Omnilab
A very significant deal was announced today that gives director George Miller access to significant finance and the digital technology and hardware, personnel, and management skills, enabling him to make more films of the scale of his most recent hit, Happy Feet.His company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, has joined forces with ...
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The Jammed named best film at Australia's Inside Film Awards
The Home Song Stories, The Jammed and Happy Feet were the three films that went home with the most honours from the Inside Film (IF) Awards, held tonight on Queensland's Gold Coast.The self-financed film The Jammed won best film, and best script for writer-director Dee McLachlan, while The Home Song ...
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Tom Yoda named chairman of Tokyo International Film Festival
Tatsumi (Tom) Yoda has been named chairman of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The announcement was made at the monthly board of director's meeting of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren). Yoda will chair the 21st edition for an unspecified term. Yoda holds many powerful public and ...
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Indie India - Get set, Goa!
After struggling to find its feet in the past few years, the film market of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa is undergoing a radical overhaul this year in partnership with government agency, the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). This year, Film Bazaar (November 24-26) will ditch ...
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Sales of New Zealand films up 76% over last year
Sales of New Zealand films have shot up 76% in the past year and have generated a gross income of $5.43m, according to the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC).In its annual report, NZFC found that local films made commissions of $1.12m, up from $207,698 in 2005/06. NZFC-financed films saw international ...
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Goa fest to open with 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
Romanian director Christian Mungiu's Cannes Palmes d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days will be the opening film of this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, with Mungiu himself expected to attend. Shah Rukh Khan will inaugurate the festival which takes place Nov 23 - ...
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Korea's Studio2.0 scores sales on Epitaph, Lovers
Korean production and sales company Studio2.0 clinched a string of sales on new titles Epitaph and Lovers Of 6 Years at the recent AFM. Horror title Epitaph, directed by the Jung Brothers and starring Kim Tae-woo and Kim Bo-kyung, was sold to Taiwan 's Scholar Multimedia and Encore for Singapore, ...
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Eros' Om Shanti Om tops Ratatouille in international chart
Indian films came up blazing in this weekend's international top 40 with two films - Om Shanti Om and Saawariya - collectively taking $31.5m and accounting for more than 20% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Eros International's Om Shanti Om ...
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Singapore-based Anytime undergoes major restructuring
A major corporate restructuring is underway for Singapore-based VOD content provider Anytime in an effort to find new investors as the company is beset by funding issues and lower than anticipated sales. The exercise, which entails financial and operational changes, is being implemented by an interim management, headed by company ...
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Goteborg Fund selects six projects from developing countries
The Goteborg International Film Festival Fund has named the latest projects it is backing, with cooperation from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. The fund, set up in 1998, supports film-makers working in countries in transition. The following six projects were selected from around 100 applications to receive development ...