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NewsBhattacharya’s BMW starts shooting in Mumbai
Indian director Aditya Battacharya’s crime thriller BMW: Bombay’s Most Wanted starts shooting tomorrow (Oct 22), with a cast including The Sopranos’ John Ventimiglia and Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee.
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NewsJapanese advertising giant Hakuhodo sets up company to produce film & TV contents overseas
Major Japanese advertising conglomerate Hakuhodo has launched new company Stories LLC to produce Hollywood and overseas films and TV programming based on existing Japanese contents.
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NewsUniversal Social Cinema Facebook app goes international with Johnny English offer
Universal’s Social Cinema Facebook application to offer Johnny English in UK and Australia
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Alrick Brown's Kinyarwanda takes top award at Skip City
Vanja d’Alcantara wins best director for Beyond The Steppes.
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NewsFive APSA nominees to screen at Australia's Gold Coast Film Festival
Five nominees for The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) will screen at this year’s Gold Coast Film Festival (Nov 21-27).
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NewsVillage, China Film, Wanda to finance Keanu Reeves' Man Of Tai Chi
Village Roadshow, China Film and Beijing-based exhibitor Wanda Group are understood to have reached a deal to finance Keanu Reeves’ martial arts project, Man Of Tai Chi, which will mark the star’s directorial debut.
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Ishaqzaade starts shooting for India’s Yash Raj Films
India’s Yash Raj Films has started production on Ishaqzaade, written and directed by Habib Faisal and produced by Aditya Chopra, which is scheduled for a May 2012 release.
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NewsBusan closes with admissions jump; new Cinema Center leaking during rain
Busan’s New Currents Award shared by Mourning and Nino.
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NewsAustralia's Madman ramps up production division
Projects on the slate include a restaging of Shane Warne The Musical which will be filmed and shown in cinemas.
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NewsMy Man wins Busan award at Asian Project Market
The 6th Asian Film Market’s newly renamed Asian Project Market (APM), formerly known as the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), closed with Kumakiri Kazuyoshi’s My Man – Watashino Otoko winning the Busan Award.
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NewsToei sells Hard Romanticker to South Korea, Hong Kong
At the 6th Asian Film Market, Japanese sales company Toei has sold the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) Midnight Passion title Hard Romanticker to Joy & Contents Group for South Korea and to Sundream for Hong Kong.
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NewsFinecut sells Poongsan to Japan's Asia Films
South Korean sales company Finecut has announced a slew of deals done at the Asian Film Market and Mipcom which include the Busan festival title Poongsan to Asia Films for Japan.
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NewsGTH secures pre sales on The Billionaire
At the 6th Asian Film Market, Thai sales company Gmm Tai Hub Company Limited (GTH) has presold The Billionaire to CT Chakawara for Indonesia, Bees Factory for Taiwan and GV for Singapore.
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NewsNew Zealand lowers spend threshold for film fund
The threshold has been lowered from $3.13m to $1.96m for New Zealand films wanting to make a claim under the Screen Production Expenditure Fund.
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Film Asia launches Zombie, 3D Hunter at Busan market
Start-up Hong Kong production and sales outfit, Film Asia Entertainment, is unveiling a slate of new product at the Asian Film Market, headed by Malaysian 3D thriller The Hunter and Joe Chien’s zombie movie Zombie 108.
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NewsBusan's Asian Film Market kicks off with registration up 24%
Busan’s 6th Asian Film Market opened today (Oct 10) in its new venue at the Busan Exhibition Convention Center (BEXCO) with a 67% increase in sales booths and a 24% increase in participant registration year-on-year.
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NewsA Separation, Anatolia lead Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations
Best film nominees are Let The Bullets Fly, Once Upon a Time In Anatolia, Wedding Planners, A Separation and Goodbye.
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Pony Canyon picks up Busan opener Always
South Korean distributor Showbox/Mediaplex has sold Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opening film Always, directed by Song Il-gon, to Pony Canyon for Japan.
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Hong Kong’s Edko, Irresistible launch action duo
Hong Kong-based Edko Films and Irresistible Films have unveiled two new productions for release in 2012 – crime thriller Nightfall, starring Nick Cheung and Simon Yam, and police action film Cold War.