All Asia articles – Page 559
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Amritraj, Hyde Park set Asian ambitions
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has created an Asian division Hyde Park Asia with ambitions to produce both international and local films in the region while securing local backing from various institutions and investors.Amritraj says he already has an office opened in India and is planning to open one shortly ...
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Korea to host Cinema Digital Seoul film festival in July
A new film festival was unveiled in Seoul today - the Cinema Digital Seoul 2007 Film Festival (CinDi 2007) - which has secured sponsorship from the CJ Culture Foundation and Korean Culture & Arts Foundation. Korean Academy of Film Arts director and a digital filmmaker, Park Ki-Yong, jointly heads CinDi ...
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Jeonju's top award goes to Ying Liang's The Other Half
The eighth Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) wrapped its nine-day run today with the top Woosuk Award going to The Other Half, directed by Ying Liang. Local distributor Sponge also picked up Koji Hagiuda's Genius from Bitters End at the fest's industry screenings. The Indie Vision jury on awarding The ...
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India's PNC, Motion Pixel Corp team for five-picture slate
Indian media and entertainment company Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) has signed a five-picture deal with Florida-based animation house Motion Pixel Corporation (MPC) and its animation studio Estudio Flex in Costa Rica. The deal covers five 3D animated full-length feature films, which will feature Indian and international actors, songs and dances ...
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Double Edge to co-finance two US films with Inferno
Taiwan and US-based Double Edge Entertainment will co-finance with Inferno Distribution the psychological thriller The Heaven Project, which has started principal photography and stars Paul Walker and Piper Perabo.The company also co-financed with Inferno the family comedy Smother starring Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler and Dax Shepard, which is currently in ...
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Easternlight takes on Three Kingdoms for sales at Cannes
Easternlight Films will handle international sales at Cannes on Hong Kong director Daniel Lee's martial arts epic Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon, based on the popular Chinese classical novel The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms.Andy Lau and Maggie Q star in the story of a common man who ...
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New Yorker Films gorges on Still Life for US
New Yorker Films has picked up Jia Zhang-Ke's Venice 2006 Golden Lion winner Still Life and has scheduled an autumn platform release in New York City followed by a nationwide roll-out.Still Life chronicles the changes that sweep through an ancient town when a hydro-dam project forces families to uproot and ...
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Filipino Oscar-contender finds US home
TLA Releasing has acquired North American non-theatrical, video, and select TV rights from Unitel Pictures International to Filipino director Aureaus Solito's The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros.The distributor plans a DVD release on Aug 28 on the story of a gay pre-teen growing up with petty thieves in the slums of ...
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Spider-Man 3 makes record-breaking opening
Spider-Man 3 grossed a sensational estimated $29.15m in its first day in 16 international territories on May 1, eclipsing the opening day results of the first two episodes in the same territories. Ten of the territories (eight Asian, seven European and Egypt) generated record opening or single day marks, ...
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First Pakistani film to shoot in India opens on home turf
The first ever Pakistani film shot entirely in India, Javaid Fazal's The Return, was released on April 27 in its home country, where it played to packed houses over the first three days. Producer Shoab Alam said that the entire music and post-production work was also completed in Mumbai. He ...
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No Mercy For The Rude takes audience prize at Udine
Udine's Far East Film Festival wrapped its ninth edition Saturdayas organizers lauded the growth and appeal of a once niche festivalthat has edged its way to become Europe's most complete sampling ofAsian cinema.The non-competitive festival announced audience award -winnersSaturday night. South Korean noir title No Mercy For The Rude directedby ...
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Luhrmann's Australia starts production in Sydney
Filming started today in Sydney on the long-planned romantic action adventure Australia , Baz Luhrmann's fourth film and his third with 20th Century Fox. The cast is headed by Nicole Kidman, as English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, and Hugh Jackman, the rough hewn cattle-drover who initially repulses her, then catches ...
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Network 18 launches $110m fund for Indian film
India's Network 18 Group is launching a fund to invest in both Indian films and films targeted at Indian audiences, which aims to raise $110m via a flotation on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. The Mumbai-based media giant is behind the Indian Film Company (IFC), a newly-incorporated, ...
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Bona Culture branches out from Polybona
Li Chiyan, one of the founding members of Polybona Film Distribution along with Yu Dong, has left the company to form his own distribution outfit, Bona Culture. The new company plans to distribute around ten films a year of which eight will be Chinese-language and two will be foreign films ...
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Opera Jawa triumphs at Singapore's Silver Screen Awards
Opera Jawa , an Indonesian musical filled with gamelan music and Javanese court dances, won best film at the Silver Screen Awards of the 20th Singapore International Film Festival. Director Garin Nugroho was on hand to receive the top honour. Iraqi Kurdistan-born Shawkat Amin Korki took home best director for ...
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Ben Hopkins starts shoot in Turkey for The Market
Simon Magus and The Nine Lives Of Alex Katz director Ben Hopkins started shooting in Turkey today for his third fiction feature, The Market. The project is the first co-production between Kazakhstan, Turkey, Germany and the UK. The Market will be shot in the Turkish language.Producers are Roshanak Behesht Nedjad ...
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China's J.A. Media taps Chan, Shi as consultants
Start-up Chinese producer-distributor J.A. Media has tapped former Media Asia sales chief Jeffrey Chan and leading Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi as consultants as it ramps up its film distribution activities. Based in Beijing, the company is a subsidiary of Jilin-based biotech and alternative energy producer, Jian Group, owned by ...
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Nikkatsu, IMJ join forces to launch production outfit
Japan 's Nikkatsu Corp and production company/creative agency Inter Media Japan Entertainment (IMJE) have jointly established a new production company named Dzonot Corp. IMJE invested 51% and Nikkatsu 49% of the initial $85,000 (Y10m) in capital to set up Dzonot, which will be headed by IMJE chief executive Osamu Naito. ...
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Japanese animation Doraemon secures Chinese release
Japanese publisher Shogakukan has announced that one of its recent feature films in the popular Doraemon franchise will screen theatrically in 35 cities across mainland China. Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 , which was released domestically in March last year, will become the first Japanese animated feature to be screened theatrically ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Lucky Miles, Misencounter
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia, newly incorporated into Fantom Co Ltd, has today announced additional foreign pick-ups from Argentina and Australia for its Cannes market line-up, as well as the crank-up of Afghan title Opium War and other title updates. This follows its acquisition of world sales right for the ...