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NewsiFeatures2 opens for submissions
Creative England’s low budget film-making scheme has been extended across the UK; 3 projects will be greenlit to shoot on budgets of £350,000 with backing from the BFI Film Fund, BBC and Skillset.
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Screen Yorkshire, Northern Film & Media launch Triangle 2012
Screen Yorkshire, Northern Film and Media and Skillset are launching a new national talent development initiative aimed at encouraging writers, directors and producers to develop new working relationships.
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NewsMiramax CEO Mike Lang announces sudden departure
The widely-admired executive exits after a brief and impressive tenure and will stay on as consultant to the company during the search for a successor.
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NewsLily Collins to star in Mortal Instruments for Constantin, Unique
Harald Zwart will direct the bestseller adaptation about a young girl in New York who discovers she belongs to a clan of half-angel warriors who must defeat all manner of supernatural creatures.
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Lotte picks up sales on Ghastly, Architecture 101
South Korean sales company Lotte Entertainment is launching sales at Filmart on horror film Ghastly starring Hyo-min of popular girl group T-ara in her acting debut.
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Youku launches year-long Beautiful programme
China’s leading internet TV site is to launch its third annual original content inititative featuring four “micro-movies” from names including Tsai Ming-liang and Ann Hui.
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Showbox sends Thieves around Asia
Showbox seals key Asian territory deals on Macau diamond heist film The Thieves from Korean director Choi Dong-hoon.
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Memento Mori's Min Kyu-dong directs romcom for M-Line
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution is launching sales on romantic comedy All About My Wife at Filmart in Hong Kong.
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Turkish cinema gets first push at Filmart
Turkish cinema will have a presence for the first time at Filmart this year, through a booth organised by Turkey’s Izmir Cinema Association (ICA).
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New Pangs, Chan films headline Universe slate
Hong Kong’s Universe Films Distribution is unveiling a slate of action films at Filmart, headed by new projects from the Pang Brothers and Benny Chan.
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CAR takes North American rights to Smuggler
US-based Cinema Asia Releasing (CAR) has acquired North American rights to Japanese cult hit Smuggler, which premiered in the Midnight Madness section of last year’s Toronto film festival.
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Blind Detective, Switch make Media Asia bow
Hong Kong’s Media Asia is introducing two high-profile projects at Filmart – Johnnie To’s crime drama Blind Detective and Jay Sun’s action drama Switch.
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Emperor fights fire with Derek Kwok, Nicolas Tse
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) is launching a big-budget fire-fighting drama at Filmart, to be directed by hot up-and-coming filmmaker Derek Kwok with Nicholas Tse heading the cast.
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Fortissimo goes Full Circle
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside China to Zhang Yang’s upcoming feature Full Circle.
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NewsKhoo fills Urn, engages Apprentice
Gorylah Pictures, one of two production labels run by Singapore filmmaker and Asian Film Awards jury president Eric Khoo, is joining forces with Clover Films and MM2 Entertainment to co-produce supernatural thriller Inside The Urn (working title), to be directed by Gilbert Chan.
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NewsDistribution Workshop launches Tycoon, Christmas Rose
Distribution Workshop, the Hong Kong-based sales arm of Chinese studio Bona Film Group, is attending Filmart with a slate of hot new projects including gangster thriller The Last Tycoon starring Chow Yun Fat.
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