All Asia articles – Page 560
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Barmettler's Omega signs Rogers, slate from Baldwins
Former Lakeshore International president Peter Rogers (pictured above on the right) has resurfaced at Markus Barmettler's Swiss-based production, financing and sales company Omega Entertainment and will serve as president.Rogers will head up the expanded company's new London office and oversee all international operations. He will arrive in Cannes with a ...
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Shochiku flies with Universal Japan's Midnight Eagle
Shochiku has announced that it will distribute $10m action thriller Midnight Eagle, produced by the Midnight Eagle Partners production consortium, led by co-producer Universal Pictures Japan. The film, which began production in January, is directed by Izuru Narushima whose credits include box office hit Fly, Daddy, Fly. Starring in the ...
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SPTI, Daum seal free VoD licensing deal for Korea
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Daum Communications (Daum) announced today the first free video-on-demand (VOD) licensing deal between a Hollywood studio and a Korean company. SPTI will license annually selected library titles to top South Korean internet portal site Daum. The latter will stream these films via its site ...
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Tokyo to host world premiere of fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will receive its world premiere in Tokyo, Japan on June 28. Japanese audiences will get to see the fifth installment in the franchise before the rest of the world, including the UK, which traditionally hosts the premieres. The Japan screening will be ...
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Lost In Beijing to be released in mainland China in May
The edited version of Chinese filmmaker Li Yu's second feature Lost In Beijing will be released in mainland China on May 18, according to the film's producer Fang Li and its distributor Polybona. The version to be released in mainland China is 15 minutes shorter than the one that premiered ...
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Emperor Motion Pictures appoints Ng as sales chief
Former Celestial Pictures executive Alan Ng has joined Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) as assistant general manager, distribution. Ng, who will report directly to EMP chief executive Albert Lee, will oversee the company's growing distribution team. However he is not a direct replacement for Ricky Tse, who left the ...
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Fortissimo picks up worldwide rights to Pleasure Factory
Fortissimo Films has taken on worldwide sales rights to Thai writer-director Ekachai Uekrongtham's Singapore-set drama Pleasure Factory, which has been selected for Un Certain Regard as the only South-East Asian feature in Cannes ' official selection this year. Ekachai, whose directorial debut was the critically-acclaimed Beautiful Boxer, is a Singapore ...
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Pirates 3 gets greenlight for Chinese release
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End has been approved by Chinese censors and can be released mid-June at the earliest, according to state-owned distributor Huaxia Film Distribution and cinema owners from Beijing and Shanghai. The exact release date of the third film in the Pirates franchise is yet to ...
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Singapore censors allow jury-only screening of Solos
In an unexpected gesture of goodwill, Singapore 's Board of Film Censors has allowed an uncut, jury-only screening of Solos at the 20th Singapore International Film Festival. Festival organisers had pulled the film from the line-up after the censors demanded three cuts of 'explicit sexual acts', in line with the ...
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Gold in the vaults
With the growth of digital delivery, film archives are a potential goldmine for US studios and other rights-holders. Denis Seguin looks at the promise of digital, while Screen correspondents (see links, right) explore the distribution opportunities for major public rights-holders...In 1955, RKO Pictures licensed the television rights to its 740-film ...
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New Summit studio launches with over $1bn in funding
Rob Friedman, the former vice chairman and COO of Paramount Pictures, and Patrick Wachsberger, the head of Summit Entertainment LP, have unveiled their long-in-the-works production and distribution company which has immediate access to $1bn in funds from a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and a consortium of investors.The company, ...
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'A rich year' for Cannes 60th anniversary. promise organisers
The Cannes Film Festival announced this year's line-up at a press conference in Par with, as expected, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights set to open the 60th edition. The film will screen in competition alongside 21 other films from confirmed talents, as well as some new faces and one debut ...
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Cannes: Un Certain Regard programme
Films selected for Un Certain Regard:Calle Santa Fe by Carmen CastilloMunyurangabo by Lee Isaac Chung Night Train by Diao Yinan El Bano Del Papa by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar CharloneBikur Hatizmoret by Eran KolirinMister Lonely by Harmony Korine Magnus by Kadri Kousaar Mang Shan by Li YangMio Fratello E Figlio ...
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Bangkok film fest outlines new Asia-centric strategy
The Bangkok International Film Festival has revealed further details of its upcoming fifth edition which will be held July 19-29 following a postponement from January. According to a statement issued today, Asian cinema will take centre stage at the festival this year. More than 100 films from about 30 countries ...
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Applause Taiwan changes name, unveils release slate
Following the launch of Hong Kong-based Arm Distribution by producer-director Peter Chan and Andre Morgan of Ruddy Morgan Organization, Applause Entertainment, the Taiwan subsidiary of Chan's Hong Kong-based Applause Pictures, will be renamed Arm Distribution Taiwan. Applause Entertainment was launched in 2004 to handle distribution of Chinese-language films with the ...
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Cannes to open with Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights
The 60th Cannes Film Festival will open May 16 with Wong Kar-wai's first English-language project, My Blueberry Nights, which will play in competition. Singer Norah Jones makes her big-screen debut as a lovelorn woman on a soul-searching journey across America.The other films selected for competition areCatherine Breillat's An Old Mistress ...
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Lee Byung-hun joins cast of Fuji TV's Hero
Korean star Lee Byung Hun (A Bittersweet Life) will make his Japanese film debut in a feature adaptation of hit Fuji TV drama Hero, co-starring Takuya Kimura (Love And Honour). Hero follows an unconventional public prosecutor (Kimura) as he works to uncover the sinister conspiracy behind what starts as a ...
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai to replace Chow in Red Cliff
Tony Leung Chiu-wai will replace Chow Yun-fat in the role of Zhou Yu in John Woo's Red Cliff, producer Terence Chang and the film's investor Chengtian Entertainment confirmed this evening. Leung was previously attached to the project in the role of Zhuge Liang, but quit in March due to scheduling ...
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Shanghai film festival unveils anti-piracy project
The Shanghai International Film Festival has launched an anti-piracy short film project for its upcoming tenth edition (June 16-24). The first in a series of ten anti-piracy-themed short films will be directed by Feng Xiaogang and will premiere at SIFF's opening ceremony on June 16. At a press conference held ...
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Chinese officials deny that quotas encourage piracy
Chinese trade officials have rejected a complaint by the US to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that import restrictions on foreign movies, music and books are an obstacle to the country's crackdown on rampant piracy. Wang Ziqiang, spokesperson for National Copyright Administration, said yesterday that the accusation that market access ...