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CJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on Haeundae
Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has pre-sold JK Youn’s tsunami-attacks-Busan filmHaeundaeto VSG for Singapore and Malaysia.’Haeundae is a concept film with high production values - Hans Ulrich who worked on A Perfect Storm, Star Wars 4 and 5, and The Day After Tomorrow is supervising the CGI, and so far it ...
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NewsFortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, Face
Fortissimo Films has sealed a slew of deals on food industry documentary Food, Inc following its screening at the Berlinale and during Filmart, including a sale to A-Films for Benelux and Cafe Groove for Japan.The film, which world premiered at Toronto before it screened in Berlin, has also gone to ...
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HanWay Films seals a number of deals ahead of MIP-TV
HanWay Films has closed a number of deals on a wide variety of titles from its library of 600 films in advance of MIP-TV.The UK’s Optimum Releasing has re-licensed the Recorded Picture Company collection which includes The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Nagisa Oshima.Meanwhile ...
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Hot Docs unveils 36 world premieres
New films from Kevin McMahon, Larry Weinstein and John Greyson were among the 36 world premieres unveiled as the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival announced its full line-up today. The festival runs in Toronto from April 30 to May 10.McMahon’s Waterlife explores the complex ecology of and environmental damage wrought ...
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Hong Kong Filmart news digest
March 25Filmart takes on regional flavourYoung’s Christmas Rosereceives full financing at HAFMarch 24Fortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, FaceCJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on HaeundaeSalon’s pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2March 23Japanese cinema triumphs at Asian Film Awards in Hong KongFortissimo picks up rights outside ...
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Babelgum offers mobile video application to US users
Online content platform Babelgum has released a US version of its mobile video application. At the same time the babelgum.com website has been redesigned with a Flash-based player.Babelgum had previously launched its mobile services in the UK and Italy.In the US, the mobile appication is free and available for download ...
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Simon Crowe flies solo with launch of SC Films International
Simon Crowe, managing director of Velvet Octopus has launched his new production, sales and distribution outfit SC Films International.SC Films will be financed by Matthew Joynes of Aurelius Investments and Crowe’s new company will handle some foreign sales for the LA-based Aurelius Investments.Crowe’s main focus will be on commercial action, ...
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German producers fear $135m worth of production at risk
Work on more than 30 German feature film projects could be ‘at acute risk’ in 2009 because of the uncertainty surrounding the finances of the German Federal Film Fund (FFA), according to the German Producers Alliance.The figures come from a survey of its members by the Alliance. Three quarters of ...
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Salon's pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2
Companies under Hong Kong’s Salon Films’ pan-Asia alliance have announced new production projects including three projects from Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.Producer Hsu Li-kong and his Zoom Hunt International is preparing the sequel to Ang Lee’s 1994 classic Eat Drink Man Woman, tentatively titled Eat Drink Man Woman II, a project ...
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Michael Bay to receive ShoWest Vanguard Award
Michael Bay will receive the ShoWest 2009 Vanguard Award forExcellence in Filmmaking at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.Bay directed this summer’s tentpole release Transformers: Revenge OfThe Fallen, the sequel to his 2007 smash Transformers.His films have grossed more than $3bn worldwide and include PearlHarbor, Armageddon, The Rock, ...
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Regent takes international rights to Weaver's Weather Girl
Regent Worldwide Sales has acquired international rights to Blayne Weaver’s romantic comedy Weather Girl starring Tricia O’Kelley and Mark Harmon.Regent spotted the film at Slamdance and struck the deal withSubmarine. The story centres on a Seattle TV weather girl who embarkson an affair with her brother’s best friend after she ...
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Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland in TWC's Get Happy
Anne Hathaway, nominated for a lead actress Oscar last season for Rachel Getting Married, is attached to star for The Weinstein Company as Judy Garland in film and stage versions of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life Of Judy Garland.Get Happy is based on hundreds of interviews and Garland’s ...
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Raintree, Wayne Wang prepare Singapore historical thriller
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures has announced much-anticipated further details on its historical film 1965 - currently in development with Wayne Wang lined up to direct.Based on the turbulent title year that Singapore broke away from Malaysia to become independent, 1965 will be a mainstream political thriller with a projected budget of ...
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Dayyan Eng enlists Daniel Wu, Gong Beibi for Inseparable
Chinese American filmmaker Dayyan Eng (Waiting Alone) is to produce and direct a black-comedy from his own script titledInseparable. Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu (Shinjuku Incident) and Chinese actress Gong Beibi (Call For Love, Waiting Alone) are heading the cast.The project is being planned as a mid-budget film under Chinese ...
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Sundream takes Hong Kong rights to TWC's musical Nine
Hong Kong’s Sundream Motion Pictures has acquired all Hong Kong rights to Rob Marshall’s musical Nine from The Weinstein Company (TWC).Sundream has an output deal with TWC but, according to Sundream vice president of buinsess development, Tom Cheung, the expensive film was acquired outside that arrangement.Currently in post-production for US ...
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P.A.M. Korea Media enters sales with thriller Bloody Shake
P.A.M. Korea Media has launched into international sales with the market debut of director Kim Jee-yong’s Bloody Shake, a psychological thriller with visceral and bloody imagery.The film follows seven characters - including a priest, a pickpocket and a lesbian butcher - in a relay of seven murderous stories, which all ...
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Fortissimo picks up rights outside Japan to Kore-eda's Air Doll
Fortissimo Films has picked up all rights outside Japan to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll. Japan’s Asmik Ace Entertainment negotiated the deal on behalf of its co-production partners on the film - Engine Film, Bandai Visual, TV Man Union and Eisei Gekijo.Kor-eda won the Asian Film Award for best director last ...
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Hit Singapore director Jack Neo plans ghost story triptych
Record-breaking Singaporean hit director Jack Neo (I Not Stupid)has announced a new projectGot Ghost Meh(working title) in development.Neo plans to make a 90-minute feature film made up of three parts - each a 30-minute-long ghost story filled with horror and comedy elements.Known for his poignant low-budget comedy hits, the director ...
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Thailand's Mono Entertainment returns to market after restructure
Thailand’s Mono Entertainment returns to Filmart this year under the banner of motif+ after a major corporate restructuring. The company is now divided into production division motif+, headed by successful director and producer Pantham Thongsang, and home entertainment division Command N, headed by Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai, managing director of Mono Entertainment.The ...
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NewsBroken Embraces fails to scale same box-office heights as Volver
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film Broken Embraces took $1.3m in its opening weekend at the Spanish box office, a full $1m less than his previous offering Volver, following a mixed response from critics. The film was released nationwide in Spain by Warner Bros on March 18 and had taken $1.9m ...