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RGM set to tap Asian material for global distribution
Singapore-based RGM Entertainment, which has recently completed raising a $400m production fund, is now actively seeking Asian material with the aim of producing big-budget features for global distribution, said CEO Devesh Chetty at Pusan's Asian Film Funds Forum (AFFF)on Sunday. Chetty outlined the company's goals for the fund, which will ...
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China's Golden Globe boards Qin Shi Huang Project
China's Golden Globe Pictures, based in the city of Hangzhou, has signed an agreement with Korea's Odyssey Pictures to co-produce a $30m English-language feature, tentatively titled The Qin Shi Huang Project, which already has a French partner attached. In July this year, Odyssey had signed an agreement with Ariel Zeitoun ...
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Busan, Sapporo sign MoUfor film collaboration
The Korean city of Busan and Japanese city Sapporo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on film production, distribution and training programmes within the film industry in each city. The MoU was signed in Busan at the Asian Film Policy Forum during the Pusan International Film Festival ...
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Mirovision sells remake rights to Driving With My Wife's Lover
South Korea's Mirovision has announced the sale of US remake rights for Kim Tai-sik's Driving With My Wife's Lover to Circle of Confusion at Pusan's Asian Film Market. The former Sundance and Rotterdam film is about a man who hires his wife's lover, a taxi driver, to take him on ...
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Fox Star Studios seals two-picture deal with Shah
Fox Star Studios, the pan-Asian joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox and regional broadcaster Star, has struck a two-picture deal with producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah whose credits include Namastey London and Singh is Kinng. The deal includes development and production of a visual effects-driven fantasy action movie and a contemporary ...
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Korea's ACTI set to launch pan-Asian film fund
Korean venture capital firm Asia Culture Technology Investment (ACTI) is planning to launch a five-year $24m (30bn won) pan-Asian film fund, with the aim of boosting the region's output and competitiveness with Hollywood. Tentatively titled the Asia Joint Production Film Fund, the fund will invest in co-productions with a focus ...
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Zhang Ziyi to star in China-Korea co-production
Zhang Ziyi is set to star in a big-budget romantic comedy, Sophie's Revenge, which is being made as a China-South Korea co-production. The Chinese-language film will be shot entirely in China with a local director. Announced by CJ Entertainment in Pusan last night at the company's annual CJ Night bash, ...
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CJ scores further sales on The Good, The Bad, The Weird
CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of sales from the Asian Film Market in Pusan.Kim Jee-woon's fast-paced Oriental Western The Good, The Bad, The Weird - the international version of which is making its Asian premiere in the Pusan festival - has sold to Celestial Films for Hong Kong and ...
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Irresistible Films outlines strategy, new management team
New Hong Kong-based production company and filmfund, Irresistible Films, has announced its management team, including managing director Nansun Shi and general manager Lorna Tee. In addition, the company has appointed Jannie Wai as production co-ordinator. The appointments were announced by Irresistible Films director Buddy Marini, representing Japan's Avex Entertainment.The experienced ...
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The Weinstein Company's Asian Film Fund casts wide net
The Weinstein Company's vice president, Asian acquisitions and co-production Bey Logan, explained the company's criteria for selecting projects for its $285m Asian Film Fund, at Pusan's Asian Film Funds Forum over the weekend(Oct 3-5). Launched just over one year ago, the fund aims to back around 30 Asian-themed films over ...
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Fuji TV, Production I.G to produce CG animated feature
Japanese broadcast major Fuji TV and animation house Production I.G have announced plans to co-produce a wholly CG animated feature film. With a working title of Hottarake No Shima: Haruka To Maho No Kagami (Hottarake Island: Haruka And The Magic Mirror), the film will be directed by Shinsuke Sato.The fantasy ...
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Japan to launch film commission as part of policy shift
Speaking at Pusan's Asia-Pacific Film Policy Forum (Oct 4-5), Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) outlined its major initiatives for the future role of the territory in what it has dubbed the 'Asia Content Community'. The presentation, by METI director general of Commerce and Information Policy Bureau Masahiro ...
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Asian financiers urged to learn from mistakes in the West
The Asian film biz should avoid over-supply and ensure that the interests of distributors and investors are aligned, said panellists at a seminar on Asian film funds at Pusan's Asian Film Market (Oct 3-6). The seminar, co-hosted by Screen International, also examined how film financing has become more difficult due ...
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Singapore Film Commission awards $1.6m to new directors
Nine Singapore directors have each received $170,000 (S$250,000) to direct their first feature-length film under the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund. Funding was granted on the basis that each project has the potential to carry a Singapore-made story to overseas markets.The projects include Japan-Singapore co-production Thunder Boys as ...
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Japanese sellers premiere new titles at Asian Film Market
Japanese majors and independent production companies are kicking off sales of their latest titles at Pusan's Asian Film Market, which launched today. While many Japanese companies reserve full market screenings for the likes of Cannes and the Santa Monica AFM, they believe that Pusan's AFM is an important place to ...
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Cape No. 7 becomes Taiwan's top-grossing film of the year
Taiwan's Cape No. 7 has become the number one film at the Taipei box office in 2008, grossing over $4m. Wei Te-sheng's debut film surged ahead of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Dark Knight at the weekend, but figures were not immediately available as Taiwan endured ...
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Pusan opens with fanfare but mourns death of local star
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) opened tonight (Oct 2) at the Outdoor Theatre of the Haeundae Yachting Center with fireworks and fanfare, a star-studded red carpet, opening film Gift To Stalin and an announcement of a death and an absence. The death was of much-beloved local actress Choi ...
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Asia Film Finance 2008
ASIAN FILM FINANCESpecial features Introduction: The world turns EastThe rise of Asian film fundsKorea opportunitiesAsia opens up to international projectsVentures into ChinaFunding sourcesAsian Film FundsDebt FinancingGovernment organisations
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Madman takes Oz rights to The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment has announced the sale of the international version of Kim Jee-woon's The Good, The Bad, The Weird to Madman for Australia. It was noted in the beginning of the 'working version' of Kim's Oriental Western which screened in Cannes earlier this year that post-production was ...
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Distribution Workshop kickstarts slate with Rain Fall
Distribution Workshop, the new Hong Kong-based production and sales outfit founded by Nansun Shi and Jeffrey Chan, has picked up international rights outside Japan to upcoming Japanese thriller Rain Fall, starring Gary Oldman. The $12m film, directed by Australian Max Mannix and produced by Japan's Satoru Iseki and Megumi Fukasawa, ...