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NewsTaiwan’s Joint Entertainment targets Chinese mainland with wedding comedy Marry Go Round
Taiwanese Joint Entertainment and China’s Enterprising Dragon Entertainment unveiled romantic comedy co-production, due to shoot in Taipei, Paris and provincial Chinese city of Chongqing, to European producers at Paris Project.
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NewsCasting underway for New Zealand feature Kiwi Flyer
The New Zealand Film Commission backed project is being directed by Nelson-born filmmaker Tony Simpson.
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NewsChina's box office up 13.6% in the first half of 2011
The box office revenue in China reached $850m (RMB5.5bn) in the first six months of 2011, a 13.6% increase from the figure of the same period in 2010.
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NewsIndian new wave filmmaker Mani Kaul dies
Mani Kaul, one of the leading figures of India’s new wave movement of the 1970s, died on July 7 of cancer. He was 66.
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NewsImagi strikes deals with Disney on Pleasant Goat
Hong Kong’s animation studio Imagi International and its strategic partner Guangdong Creative Power Entertaining (CPE) have reached a distribution deal with The Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture to distribute the fourth movie of popular Chinese animation series Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival to open with The Fairy
World premieres include dramas from Schepisi, Hewitt, Do and Lahiff; closing film will be Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.
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NewsUTV Motion Pictures to make first Tamil superhero movie
Mysskin will write and direct UTV’s first Tamil film with actors Jiiva and Narain starring in the lead roles.
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NewseOne inks output deal with Lakeshore for Australia, NZ
Multiyear deal which extends existing relationship kicks off with Amanda Seyfried thriller Gone
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NewsPolson, Hamilton to produce Sydney, I Love You
The latest omnibus feature will be a love letter to Sydney.
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NewsChina's Youku signs distribution deal with Warner Bros covering 450 titles
Youku Premium titles will cost $0.77 per view per film online.
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NewsDabangg leads winners at IIFAs; Shah Rukh Khan wins best actor
First IIFAs in North America welcome 22,000 fans to Toronto’s Rogers Centre.
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NewsFestival Scope partners with Seattle, Hong Kong, Moscow, Kaunas
Online industry platform Festival Scope has added several new festivals to its roster: Seattle International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival, and Kaunas International Film Festival.
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NewsChina Film Group teams with Sohu and Nokia on film production
Top Chinese actors involved include Huang Bo [pictured].
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NewsIran's A Separation wins Sydney Film Prize, Cairo 678 gets special mention
Other awards go to 33 Postcards, Life In Movement, The Palace, Tethered, and Nullabor.
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Young Chinese directors dominate Shanghai's Golden Goblets
Turkey’s Orhan Oguz wins best feature for Hayde Bre.
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NewsJapan launches co-production subsidy scheme
Japan’s first subsidy aimed at boosting foreign co-productions is worth up to $625,000 to overseas projects with Japanese financial and creative involvement
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NewsTokyo's TIFFCOM market outlines changes for 2011
Sales event plans closer integration of seminars, screenings and market booths
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UTV acquires rights to best-selling novel Chanakya’s Chant
Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures has acquired rights to Ashwin Sanghi’s best-selling novel Chanakya’s Chant, which will be adapted into a feature film by the studio.
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Warner Bros signs China VoD deal with YOU On Demand
Warner Bros has signed a pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VoD) deal with VoD platform YOU On Demand Media, which is an official partner of Chinese state-owned movie channel CCTV-6.
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Norwegian Wood secures release in mainland China
Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood has passed censorship in mainland China and will be released in the territory later this year through China Film and Shanghai Huayu Film Company.