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John Woo's Red Cliff II storms Japanese box office
John Woo’s Red Cliff II scaled to the top of the Japanese box office this past weekend, with earnings of$8.66m (Y869m) over the three-day period (April 10-12).
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Pan-Asian auteurs line up for Chengdu omnibus
Beijing-based Zonbo Media is preparing a three-part film set in the earthquake-stricken city ofChengdu in Western China, to be directed by Korea’s Hur Jin-ho, Hong Kong’s Fruit Chan and Chineserock singer and filmmaker Cui Jian.
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Indian cinemas go dark as producer stand-off continues
Programming has virtually dried up at Indian multiplexes due to the on-going stand-off betweenexhibitors and the United Producers Forum which started on April 4.
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Italy's Far East Film Festival announces line-up
The 11th edition of Italy’s Far East Film Festival will kick off on April 24 with the European premieresof Thai martial action film, Ong Bak 2, and Chinese black comedy, Crazy Racer.
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Indian cinemas go dark as producer stand-off continues
Programming has virtually dried up at Indian multiplexes due to the on-going stand-off between exhibitors and the United Producers Forum which started on April 4. With producers holding back fresh releases, and pulling previously released films from circulation, only two stuck-in-the-can B-grade Hindi films opened last weekend, along with Italian ...
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Pan-Asian auteurs line up for Chengdu omnibus
Beijing-based Zonbo Media is preparing a three-part film set in the earthquake-stricken city of Chengdu in Western China, to be directed by Korea’s Hur Jin-ho, Hong Kong’sFruit Chan and Chinese rock singer and filmmaker Cui Jian.
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John Woo's Red Cliff II storms Japanese box office
John Woo’s Red Cliff II scaled to the top of the Japanese box office this past weekend, with earnings of $8.66m (Y869m) over the three-day period (April 10-12). The sequel to the 2008 hit saw 681,000 admissions from 729 screens, the widest ever for a non-Japanese Asian film.The Friday opening ...
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NewsFast & Furious leaves the competition in the dust and closes in on $100m overseas
Universal/UPI’sFast & Furiousmaintained its devastating early pace as the action sequel delivered an estimated $46.5m weekend haul from 5,118 venues in 50 territories to race to an early $91m international running total.In North America the film tore past $115m in its second weekend and remained the top selling release worldwide ...
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Screen Australia to back war movie Beneath Hill 60
Screen Australia today announced it would back $5.7m (A$8m) war movie Beneath Hill 60, the only feature to secure the federal government agency’s backing this month.
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Pony Canyon sells Amalfi, Nodame Cantabile to Asia
Japanese international sales outfit Pony Canyon has closed pre-sales with two Asian buyers for Fuji TV titles Nodame Cantabile The Movie and Amalfi.
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KOFIC selects 29 screens for Artplus Cinema programme
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that it is providing $795,000 (KW1.08bn) towards the 29 screens that it has selected for its Artplus Cinema Network funding scheme for this year. The sum will be split according to how many seats each screen has and whether or not they are ...
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Wolverine producer applies for Screen Australia funding
As the X-Men Origins: Wolverine publicity machine kicked into gear today, one ofthe producers on the film, Seed Productions, confirmed that it has applied for taxpayer fundingthrough Screen Australia.
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Global gains at the box office
It is more than official. At ShoWest - the North American cinema convention which has traditionally sidetracked international concerns to a pre-show ‘International Day’ - Motion Picture Association Of America (Mpaa) president Dan Glickman declared international box office revenues now accounted for 65% of the studios’ theatrical pie.Given that international’s ...
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NewsThe Asian Equation - studios turn to Asian audiences, not crossover hits
Nearly all the major US studios and many of the larger indies are now involved in local-language production in Asia. Their varying goals, strategies and levels of success were discussed by a panel of senior executives at the recent Filmart convention in Hong Kong.
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Usen's GyaO, Yahoo! Japan merge online distribution portals
Yahoo! Japan and Usen-owned online contents portal GyaO have announced a merger of their movie and video broadband internet content portals. Yahoo! Japan has acquired a 51% controlling share of wholly-owned Usen subsidiary GyaO. Yahoo purchased 4,998 shares at a cost of $5.32m (Y529,778,009). The shares will be transferred on ...
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Tokyu to screen Transformers in Imax digital format
Japanese exhibitor Tokyu Recreation will release Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen in the Imax digital formatin June, marking the first time the format has been used in Japan. Three sites in Tokyu's 109 Cinemas chain will screen the film in Imax digitalfrom June 20- which also marks the film's earliest ...
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Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles announces seminar line-up
Producing Indian content for the Indian and international market and film financing options will be on the agenda at the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles’seminar series In Prime Time: Hollywood’s Spotlight On India on April 24.
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KOFIC hands out $1.82m under two funding schemes
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced it will award a total of $1.82m (KW2.4bn) to the 24 winning projects of its Korean Film Production Support Program and its Korean Film Development Support Program. All together, the films will receive an accumulative $5.46m in funds, benefits-in-kind (use of equipment, post-production ...
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Australian governmentinitiative to boost online film distribution
Australian companies wanting to download film and television direct to homes stand to gain enormously from the Australian government’s decision to take over the project to build a major national broadband fibre network. ‘This is the single largest infrastructure decision in Australia’s history,’ said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today at ...
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Asian film industry in mourning for Barendrecht
The Asian film industry was in shock on Monday at the news of the death of Fortissimo Films founder and co-chairman Wouter Barendrecht. During the 12 years he hadlived in Hong Kong, and before when based in Europe, Barendrecht had worked with and built up close friendships with many of ...