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Ahmad, Lee Chang-dong take top PPP awards
Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad's Forget-Me-Not, which is being produced by Japan's Wa Entertainment, picked up the $20,000 Pusan Awardat the closing of the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) on Monday night. The project tells the story of a Malay girl who goes to visit her relatives in Japan after her Japanese ...
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Asian policy-makers to jointly examine incentives
After two days of well-attended seminars and meetings, the first Asia PacificFilm Policy Forum closed yesterday at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) with a joint declaration tocontinue holdingthe event,and to jointly promote the film and media industries within the region. Around 37 representatives from 14 countries agreed to make ...
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Fox Star Studios seals two-picture deal with Shah
Fox Star Studios, the pan-Asian joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox and regional broadcaster Star, has struck a two-picture deal with producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah whose credits include Namastey London and Singh is Kinng. The deal includes development and production of a visual effects-driven fantasy action movie and a contemporary ...
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Zhang Ziyi to star in China-Korea co-production
Zhang Ziyi is set to star in a big-budget romantic comedy, Sophie's Revenge, which is being made as a China-South Korea co-production. The Chinese-language film will be shot entirely in China with a local director. Announced by CJ Entertainment in Pusan last night at the company's annual CJ Night bash, ...
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Fuji TV, Production I.G to produce CG animated feature
Japanese broadcast major Fuji TV and animation house Production I.G have announced plans to co-produce a wholly CG animated feature film. With a working title of Hottarake No Shima: Haruka To Maho No Kagami (Hottarake Island: Haruka And The Magic Mirror), the film will be directed by Shinsuke Sato.The fantasy ...
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Dennings joins Harrelson, Oh in Darius Films' Defendor
Kat Dennings, starring alongside Michael Cera in this weekend's release Nick And Nora's Infinite Playlist, has signed on to play the role of Kat in Defendor opposite Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh.Harrelson will playing Arthur, an ordinary man who believes he has asecret identity as the superhero Defendor. Oh plays ...
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Seven Arts begins shooting Night Of The Demons remake
Principal photography has commenced in New Orleans on Seven Arts Pictures' horror remake Night Of The Demons.Adam Gierasch wrote the screenplay with his longtime partner Jace Anderson and is directing the story of a Halloween party that turns into a nightmare when a group of teenagers find themselves being stalked ...
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Asian financiers urged to learn from mistakes in the West
The Asian film biz should avoid over-supply and ensure that the interests of distributors and investors are aligned, said panellists at a seminar on Asian film funds at Pusan's Asian Film Market (Oct 3-6). The seminar, co-hosted by Screen International, also examined how film financing has become more difficult due ...
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Singapore Film Commission awards $1.6m to new directors
Nine Singapore directors have each received $170,000 (S$250,000) to direct their first feature-length film under the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund. Funding was granted on the basis that each project has the potential to carry a Singapore-made story to overseas markets.The projects include Japan-Singapore co-production Thunder Boys as ...
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Distribution Workshop kickstarts slate with Rain Fall
Distribution Workshop, the new Hong Kong-based production and sales outfit founded by Nansun Shi and Jeffrey Chan, has picked up international rights outside Japan to upcoming Japanese thriller Rain Fall, starring Gary Oldman. The $12m film, directed by Australian Max Mannix and produced by Japan's Satoru Iseki and Megumi Fukasawa, ...
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Loveridge joins Eastwest Filmdistribution
International film industry stalwart Helen Loveridge has joined the sales team of EastWest Filmdistribution working out of its London office.Speaking to Screendaily at this week's Zurich Producers Forum, Eastwest's co-founder Sasha Wieser explained that Loveridge will be working alongside the head of sales Alan Rudoff and be responsible for sales ...
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Slovaks submit Blind Loves for Oscar
The Slovak Film and Television Academy will submit Juraj Lehotsky's documentary Blind Loves for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Blind Loves, which screened in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, follows four blind people as they experience love in their everyday lives. The film also screened at London BFI, ...
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Polish Film Institute announces more than $4m in production support
The Polish Film Institute (PISF) has awarded funding to four projects in its third funding session this year and has tagged a number of films as eligible for support in the coming months.Husband and wife film-makers Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze (Saviour's Square, My Nikifor) will receive $1.9m (PLN 4.5m) ...
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Abbott Vision in talks to acquire Tightrope Pictures
Writer's think-tank Abbott Vision, headed by Paul Abbott, aims to buy out producer Hilary Bevan Jones from her share of their independent production company Tightrope Pictures and rename it Abbott Productions.Abbott, creator of Shameless, aims to expand Abbott Vision through production of new drama and other content, for which Tightrope ...
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Pierre Morel to direct action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity
District B13's Pierre Morel is in talks to direct the action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity Media, who acquired the screenplay from producer Arne Schmidt based on the novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.Kavanaugh will produce with Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will ...
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Tigerlily wraps production on Guo Xiaolu's La Chinoise
The UK's Tigerlily Films has wrapped production on London-set drama La Chinoise (working title), which is directed by Chinese writer and filmmaker Guo Xiaolu. Produced by Tigerlily's Natasha Dack through the Warp X Low Budget Initiative, the film follows a Chinese girl who moves to London and her encounters with ...
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Ayres' Scratch The Surface one of ten at SPAAmart
Tony Ayres is attached to direct Scratch The Surface, which is inspired by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, who was brutally murdered by the two youngsters that calmly lead him away from a UK shopping centre 15 years ago. The film is one of ten projects given the thumbs ...
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Hicks starts production on Boys Are Back In Town
Scott Hicks has started shooting UK-Australia co-production The Boys Are Back In Town, which is billed as a love story between a single parent, played by Clive Owen, and his two sons. The producers Tim White (Two Hands) and Greg Brenman (Billy Elliott) have sold North American rights in advance, ...
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Adams relocates to Australia to produce studio-financed films
Former Participant Productions executive Chris Adams is planning to relocate from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, and expand his business interests to encompass financing features developed by Melbourne-based actor, writer and filmmaker Steve Kearney. 'Steve is the creative genius and I'm the deal maker,' said Adams, who is American. Asked ...
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Japan's Toy-be changes names, launches Singapore co-production
Japanese film and media company Toy-be Entertainment is being renamed and relaunched as Adways Entertainment Co, following a capital alliance with Tokyo-listed mobile and internet advertising agency Adways Group in August. Adways Entertainment has also announced the first project for its 2008/2009 slate, which is a Japan-Singapore co-production tentatively titled ...