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Singapore/US financier Upside Down commits to Exodus
New Singapore-US film financing venture Upside Down Entertainment (UDE) is to back Daniel Chan's $12.8m Exodus, the first installment of the Battle of Hong Kong trilogy, as its first project. The new entity, a joint venture between Singapore's production house Upside Down Concepts and Mark Byers' Quixotic Media Group of ...
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Korean Film Council reorganises in wake of new ticket tax
With a 3% ticket tax going into effect July 1, the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) is reorganizing its in-house structure to manage the new funds.Initially, concerns were voiced over who would shoulder the burden of the tax - filmgoers, exhibitors or producers - but 'the industry realizes that taking on ...
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Degeto gets TV rights to Getting Home from Fortissimo
German broadcaster Degeto Film, making its first trip to Filmart, has closed its first deal with Fortissimo Films for the TV rights to Getting Home.Zhang Yang's Hong Kong/China co-production was selected for the 2006 Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum and recently won the ecumenical jury prize after its screening in ...
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Hong Kong's Filmko unveils five to be financed
Hong Kong's Filmko Entertainment will put aside up to HK$70 mn this year for five productions including Pang Ho Cheung's Exodus and Law Chi Leung's Kidnap, both currently in post-production, according to president Dominic Yip.Exodus, featuring Simon Yam and Annie Liu as husband and wife, revolves around how men stumble ...
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Hong Kong's Mei Ah Entertainment scales Red Cliff
Mei Ah Entertainment has acquired all Hong Kong rights to John Woo's upcoming military epic Red Cliff. Hong Kong is the last major Asian territory to sign on for the $75m picture which is scheduled to start shooting on March 29 in and around Beijing. Woo and his producer partner ...
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Yuen to wreak Vengeance for Celestial
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has added a remake of Chang Cheh's Vengeance, to be directed by Corey Yuen, to its slate of productions inspired by titles in its Shaw Brothers library. Yuen is attached to direct the project from a script by Jeff Lau, the writer-director behind iconic Hong Kong ...
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Fortissimo picks up Yau Nai Hoi's Eye In The Sky
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia but including Japan and Korea, to action thriller Eye In The Sky from Hong Kong 's Sundream Motion Pictures. The directorial debut of Johnnie To's regular screenwriter Yau Nai Hoi, the film recently premiered at Berlin and is one of the opening ...
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Entertainment Expo Hong Kong 2007
This year's edition sees many changes as Expo raises its profile in the international calendar. Filmart, HAF and Hkiff will start on the same day and work more closely to provide a platform to support the production and distribution of Asian and other international films.In addition, the opening night of ...
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HAF 2007 - Invested interest
Co-production markets have become a must-have accessory at film festivals from New York to Tokyo. The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) is slightly different, however, in that it is a financing platform that was conceived independently and only later became attached to a film festival.Organised for the past two ...
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New Chinese buyers - Slice of the action
Until recently, international sales companies were showing little interest in China. The market's rampant piracy and censorship were major turn-offs, as was the fact that unless a film is selected as one of China's 20 annual revenue-sharing imports, it can technically only be sold for a flat fee to state-owned ...
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Filmart - HK market stakes global claim
This year, many Asian sellers decided to skip Berlin's European Film Market in February and focus on the Hong Kong event (March 20-23) instead - a telling sign that the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart) is raising its international profile.Indeed it looks like not one but two ...
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Entertainment Expo Hong Kong - Power surge
HONG KONGIt has been a year of ironic contradictions for the Hong Kong film industry. Undeniably, local producers are still struggling with falling production levels, as investors put resources into fewer but larger films, and local box office for home-grown productions continues to shrink.Yet despite the gloom, Hong Kong talent ...
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Hong Kong International Film Festival - Match makers
This year marks a radical shift in the ambitions of the 31-year-old Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff). Although respected for the quality of its programming, the festival has traditionally focused on local audiences and has not had a high profile on the global film-festival circuit or been regarded as ...
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Ambitious Hong Kong ready to scale new heights
This year's multi-faceted Hong Kong film season stretches to nearly a month of world-class events under the Entertainment Expo banner.Each distinct event is looking to stretch its brand to new limits. Three events - Filmart, co-production market HAF and the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) - all kick off ...
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Asian Film Awards to honour Josephine Siao, David Bordwell
The inaugural Asian Film Awards will give its first Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema to Josephine Siao. Siao has starred in more films than any other Hong Kong actor, including Stephen Chow's Fists of Fury 1991 II, Corey Yuen's Fong Sai Yuk and Ann Hui's Summer ...
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Fortissimo teams with Entertainment Farm for Sonata
International sales and production company Fortissimo Films is partnering with Japan's Entertainment Farm to co-produce the tentatively titled Tokyo Sonata, to be directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Fortissimo will also handle international sales on the film. The project is one of 25 that have been selected for this year's edition of ...
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Prime racks up pre-sales on Kwak's Mighty Princess
My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae Yong's My Mighty Princess has been notching up pan-Asian sales and is due for a simultaneous pan-Asian release outside Korea. Since premiering the project at last year's Asian Film Market, sales agent and Korean distributor Prime Entertainment has been busy closing deals during the ...
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Turning tide in Hong Kong Affairs
When William Monahan accepted his Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar this week for The Departed, he thanked Felix Chong and Alan Mak, the writers of its source material, Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs. But he could have also paid homage to Media Asia's chairman Peter Lam who greenlit the high-concept thriller.Affairs ...
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Hong Kong Filmart adds TV, locations showcases
This year's Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart) will host two new thematic pavilions - TV World and Locations World - as part of its drive to become the leading cross-media trading platform in the region. Almost 40 companies, from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and other regions, ...
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Shindo to have world premiere at Hong Kong Filmart
The Tokyo International Film Festival has arranged to hold the world premiere of Koji Hagiuda's Shindo (translation: Prodigy) at this year's Hong Kong Filmart on March 21. The Tokyo fest and its attendant TIFFCOM market, which are held in October, have been using Filmart as a launch pad in recent ...