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All Asia articles – Page 552
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Eros to release Om Shanti Om on 2,000 screens
Eros International is preparing its widest ever release for Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om, which will open on more than 2,000 screens worldwide on November 9. Produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, the film stars Bollywood's number one star, Shah Rukh Khan. It also marks the debut of model Deepika Padukone. ...
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Before The Rains
Dir: Santosh Sivan US/India. 2007. 98minsA bittersweet journey from blinkered loyalty to rueful independence, Before The Rains captures the crumbling of British rule in 1930s India through a doomed love affair and its tragic consequences. In its more obvious moments it strays perilously close to the conventions of romantic fiction ...
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Sydney film fest launches international competition
In June 2008, the Sydney Film Festival will become the first in Australia to have an official FIAPF-approved competition, organisers announced today. The New South Wales state government has committed nearly $1.8m (A$2m) additional funding over the next four years. Twelve features will be in competition, judged by a jury ...
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Blood Brothers (Tian Tang Kou)
Dir: Alexi Tan, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, 2007. 95minsThe closing film at the Venice film festival, Blood Brothers is a dark gangster fable set in 1930s Shanghai - and a stylish but hollow debut for John Woo protege Alexi Tan. For all the film's lush cinematography, spot-on period detail and all-star Asian ...
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Film Financing Circle announcedfor Abu Dhabi Festival
Organisers of Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) have announced details of the accompanying Film Financing Circle (FFC), which takes place at the Emirates Palace hotel, the festival centre, October 15-17. 'Since the conception of the festival, I have wanted to offer an arena where global ...
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China Clipper to fly with China's Hengdian, Canada's Long Tale
Vancouver-based Long Tale Entertainment has signed with Chinese production colossus Hengdian Studios for the $30m Canada-China co-production China Clipper.Long Tale's Harry Sutherland put the package together with US MoviePlus, the LA-arm of worldwide film finance entity set up by Stuart Little producer Steve Waterman and Chris Brough, founder of Vancouver's ...
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Korea selectsSecret Sunshine as foreign-language Oscar entry
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has chosen Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine as South Korea 's submission to the Academy Awards' best foreign-language film category. The film was previously in competition at this year's Cannes festival, where it garnered the best actress award for Jeon Do-yeon. KOFIC announced that a jury ...
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Useless (Wu Yong)
Dir. Jia Zhang-Ke. China , 2007. 84mins.Perennial Venice favourite Jia Zhang-Ke is back with a documentary whose title could invite all manner of cheap shots. But it also happens to be the name of a new, and highly successful, Chinese fashion brand. The second part in a trilogy dedicated to ...
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Hero tops Japanese box office
Fuji TV's Hero, starring Takuya Kimura,took the number one spot at the weekend's box office in Japan (Sep 8-9), becoming an instant hit with earnings of $9.54m (Y1.08bn). Distributor Toho opened Fuji TV's Hero on 475 screens, the widest ever release for a domestic film, topping Fuji/Toho's own Monkey Magic ...
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Australia, Singapore sign co-production treaty
A new film and TV co-production pact has been inked between the governments of Australia and Singapore, with promises of greater creative exchange and incentives to producers. Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs, George Yeo, and Australia's Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator George Brandis, signedthe agreement last Friday in ...
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After whirlwind Toronto, Nair heads to Mumbai for Shantaram
New York-based director Mira Nair left Toronto Saturday night after a short 24-hour visit to the festival - she's now in Mumbai preparing for her largest film yet, Shantaram.The $100m project, for Warner Bros with Graham King's GK Films producing and Plan B on board, starts shooting Jan 19 for ...
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Lust, Caution is surprise winner of Venice's Golden Lion
Ang Lee won the Golden Lion - again - at the 64th Venice International Film Festival yesterday for Lust, Caution, a surprise win for the Taiwanese auteur over the critical favourite Le Graine Et Le Mulet directed by Abdellatif Kechiche from France.Lee won his first Golden Lion two years ago ...
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Preity Zinta to star in Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth
Bollywood starlet Preity Zinta is set to star in Deepa Mehta's new film Heaven On Earth.Written and to be directed by Mehta and produced by long-time producing partner David Hamilton, the $3m feature goes to camera on November 5 in Toronto followed by filming in India. Mongrel Media will be ...
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Marketing - Bollywood spreads the net
Bollywood's global reach has expanded rapidly in recent years with the development of solid theatrical markets across disparate territories. This expansion, combined with a range of demographics that now includes non-Indian audiences, means that international Bollywood and Indian film marketers need to be on the cutting edge.'The trend is now ...
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Jia Zhangke plans factory worker film before 2008
Golden Lion winning director Jia Zhangke, whose new documentary Useless about the fashion industry screened in Venice's Horizons last week and in Toronto this week, has revealed further details of his next dramatic feature, which he is planning to have ready in time for the Olympic Games in Beijing in ...
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Universal and Paramount partner up in Russia
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) announced a union for Russian distribution. Eddie Cunningham, President, UPIE and Dennis Maguire, President, PHEI say that from 2 October 2007, Universal Pictures Russia will handle Paramount's DVD for marketing and distribution throughout the country.Product includes titles from MTV ...
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Johnnie To set to produce Ghost trilogy for Meridian
Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To will produce a trilogy based on the popular Chinese online novel series Gui Chui Deng, about grave-robbing, treasure-hunting and ghosts, for Shanghai-based Meridian Pictures. 'We have bought the rights of the four books and plan to make three films,' Meridian 's director of int'l distribution ...
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NFDC launches co-production market at Goa fest
India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) is launching a co-production market for Indian projects to take place during the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa from November 24-26. The three-day event will be held at Goa's Marriott Resort as part of IFFI's Film Bazaar, which was launched last ...
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Tsi resigns as director of Hong Kong film festival
Peter Tsi has resigned as executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), citing personal reasons. The festival, whichtakes placeat the same time as Hong Kong Filmart in March/April, has been forced to change direction over the past few years due to a sharp decrease in government funding. ...
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Maximum and Fortissimo strike Canadian-Asian partnership
Robert Lantos' new Toronto-based distribution and sales company Maximum Films has created an unusual partnership with Hong Kong-based Fortissimo Films whereby Maximum will distribute Fortissimo's films in Canada and Fortissimo will represent the sale of Maximum's projects in Asia. The deal, for an initial term of two years, was unveiled ...