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CJ sells Bong Joon Ho's Mother to Bitters End for Japan
CJ Entertainment has sold The Host director Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming Mother to Bitters End for Japan.The $6m thriller is aiming for Cannes and a June 2009 release. Hot interest from Japanese buyers got the film a significant pre-sales price, according to CJ. The film stars young, popular actor Won ...
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Kashyap, Nair among film-makers selected for Film Bazaar
Camera d'Or winners Murali Nair and Shaji Karun and hot up-and-coming writer-director Anurap Kashyap are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the second edition of India's Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 26-29). Nair, who picked up Cannes' Camera d'Or award in 1999 for Throne Of Death, will ...
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Fortissimo announces pre-market sales on Gigantic, Food Inc
Fortissimo Films today announced a raft of pre-market sales to major territories, including Matt Aselton's Gigantic starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel to BIM Distribuzione for Italy. Robert Kenner's food industry expose, Food, Inc. which saw its international premiere at Toronto, was picked up by Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, United ...
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Showbox takes on Ski Jump, library, from KM Culture
Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has picked up KM Culture's upcoming sports action film Ski Jump (tentative title) directed by Kim Yong-hwa, who previously directed the hit 200 Pounds Beauty. Showbox has also made a deal to handle all KM Culture's upcoming and library titles for international sales, which include 200 Pounds ...
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Warner strikes innovative digital VOD plan in China
Warner Bros announced that it will become the first Hollywood studio to release films digitally in China in a pioneering transactional VOD initiative that also marks the latest strike in the war on piracy.Studio titles such as I Am Legend, Fool's Gold and Speed Racer will be made available to ...
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China Film cuts Chung's scenes from Mei Lanfang biopic
State-owned China Film Group Corporation has confirmed that it has removed all scenes featuring Hong Kong actress Gillian Chung from Chen Kaige's upcoming Mei Lanfang biopic, whose English title has recently been finalised as Forever Enthralled.The film, about legendary Beijing opera singer Mei Lanfang's private and public lives,is a co-production ...
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Red Cliff opens at peak of Japanese box office
John Woo's Red Cliff Part 1 opened at the top of the Japanese box office the weekend of November 1st-3rd, dethroning Suspect X's four-week run in the number one position.Red Cliff opened November 1 on 549 screens, earning $9.64m (Y961.79m) on 825,000 admissions. The screen count represents the highest ever ...
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American Film Market: Asia-Pacific buzz films
Screen looks at the Asia-Pacific buzz projects at this year's American Film Market (November 5-12).Click on a territory to see moreJapanSouth KoreaThailandHong Kong/China/TaiwanAustralia and New Zealand
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Edko lines up stellar cast for Yuen Wo-ping's True Legend
Renowned action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping (The Forbidden Kingdom, Kill Bill) is directing a martial arts biopic, True Legend, starring Chiu Man-cheuk, Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, Michelle Yeoh and Chinese actors Zhou Xun and Guo Xiaodong. Edko (Beijing) Management and Consulting Ltd, the Beijing-based subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Edko Films, ...
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NDTV Lumiere strikes online deal with BIGFlix
NDTV Lumière has partnered with Indian entertainment portal www.bigflix.com to provide 30 world movies titles from its extensive acquisitions list to India and the SAARC territories. These titles will be available on the site on a yearly basis at a price of $1.99 per download-to-rent and $4.49 per download-to-own.Viewers can ...
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Warlords heads the pack forTaiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Peter Chan's The Warlords leads the race for the 45th Golden Horse Awards with nominations in 12 categories, including best feature film, best director and best actor for Jet Li. Also competing for the best film award are Feng Xiaogang's Assembly, Wei Te-sheng's Cape No. 7, Liu Fendou's Ocean Flame ...
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Oz genre filmmakers check into The Clinic
Distributor Richard Sheffield and producer Jonathan Shteinman are the executive producers on thriller The Clinic, which goes into production on November 10 in the isolated regional town of Deniliquin in Australia. Producer Samuel Pinczewski and director James Rabbitts are the drivers behind the film, set in the middle of nowhere ...
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Wenders helps toturn First Page in Taipei
Wim Wenders formally announced his new project, First Page Taipei, in Taiwan's capital today. The German filmmaker, introduced as 'the master of road movies', will executive produce the debut feature of Taipei-born and San Francisco-raised director Arvin Chen. Wenders stated that he and his director have two things in common: ...
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Whatson to head acquisitions at Australia's Palace Films
Nicolas Whatson has been promoted to the role of general manager at Palace Films, one of Australia's leading arthouse distributors, giving him ultimate responsibility for what is released in both Australia and New Zealand. Whatson has been part of the acquisition team at Cannes, Toronto and Sundance since 2004, and ...
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Black Balloon, Unfinished Sky lead Aussie awards pack
The Black Balloon, Unfinished Sky, The Square and The Jammed all have a chance of winning best film and also the best direction category at this year's 50th Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. It was announced today that family drama The Black Balloon, from debut director Elissa Down, was nominated ...
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Easternlight picks up international rights to Champions
Arclight Films' Easternlight division will handle international sales, excluding certain Asian territories, to recently completed martial arts action epic Champions, produced by Hong Kong-based Sundream Motion Pictures. The film, which is directed by veteran filmmaker and Sundream president Tsui Siuming, centres on the Chinese martial arts team that participated in ...
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Queens of Langkasuka tops Thai box office
Nonzee Nimibutr's fantasy action epic Queens of Langkasuka topped the box office charts in Thailand this weekend. The action-packed film has grossed 34.2m baht ($980,000) over five days in Bangkok, boosted by a public holiday on Thursday. The film has a chance to become the first local feature to break ...
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Tiger Gate gears up to launch two channels across Asia
Lionsgate's new Asian venture, Tiger Gate, is gearing up to launch two 24-hour genre channels across Asia - action channel KIX, and Thrill which is themed around suspense films and thrillers. The two channels were being promoted at the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) conference which kicked ...
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Screen Australia issues its inaugural guidelines
The four-month-old government film agency Screen Australia today issued guidelines on how it is going to spend its $60.5m (A$100m) per year. As expected, very experienced producers will most benefit under the new regime and large amounts of money will be directed into a small number of projects and businesses, ...
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KOFIC unveils Korean film industry rescue package
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced a plan to revitalise the ailing local film industry, starting with the creation of film funds worth a combined $55.5m - including a $3.4m fund for international co-productions and another of the same amount for 'diversity films' (ie arthouse films). After coming under ...