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Cinefan film festival to open with Johnnie To's Sparrow
Johnnie To's Berlin competition title Sparrow will be the opening film of the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (July 10-20) in New Delhi. The film, which stars Simon Yam, Kelly Lin and Ka Tung Lam, will screen on the second day of the festival on July 11. ...
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Chaser sprints off with top awards at Korea's Grand Bells
Na Hong-jin's The Chaser scooped up six prizes at Korea's 45th Grand Bell Awards on Friday night (June 27), including three major awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Kim Yoon-suk's performance In accepting the latter, Kim said to his younger co-star and rival in the category, ...
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Toho-Towa extends Universal contract, unveils line-up
Japanese distributor Toho-Towa has announced the extension of its exclusive contract with Universal Pictures, as well as its line-up, until 2010. Toho-Towa's slate of 18 films consists predominantly of Universal titles. Upcoming 2008 releases include The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (August 16) and Wanted (September).Announced for 2009 are ...
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Festival review: Shanghai International Film Festival
It was always going to be a difficult year for the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff). The festival is striving to re-invent itself but China has recently suffered a series of calamities, both man-made and natural, that inevitably cast a shadow over this year's event.Chief among these was the May ...
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Davaa's new documentary project begins shooting in Mongolia
Principal photography on the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa's new feature documentary project Two Horses Of Genghis KhanstartedMonday(June 23) in the Mongolian city of Ulaanbaatar.Shooting on the musical and mystical journey by the internationally renowned singer Urna will continue in Khentii Aimag, the birthplace of Genghis Khan, on the holy mountain ...
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Balibo to start shooting in Australia on Monday
Political thriller Balibo will start principal photography in Darwin, Australia and East Timor on June 30 (Monday).The cast features Anthony LaPaglia and Oscar Isaac.Robert Connolly directs from a script co-written with David Williamson. The story is based on true events during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975.LaPaglia plays ...
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Bollywood.tv launches Bindies online film festival
South Asian cinema online platform, www.bollywood.tv, is launching an internet film festival for independent filmmakers, dubbed the Bollywood Indies (The Bindies). The online fest welcomes independent films in any Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Sri Lankan language, theme or flavour.The content will be uploaded, and made available for sales agents and ...
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Reliance forms joint venture with the Bachchan family
Just one week after news broke that Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) is in talks to invest in DreamWorks, the Indian company has announced a joint venture with India's first family of Hindi cinema, the Bachchans. The tie-up covers the production of films, TV series, reality shows, internet and ...
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Korea's Chungeorahm announces Chinese sequel to The Host
Korea's Chungeorahm Film, producer of Bong Joon-ho's The Host, has announced it will be co-producing a China-based sequel to the mutanthit with Chinese director Ning Hao's newly-established Stoneman Films. Choi Yong-bae, CEO of Chungeorahm, and Daniel Yu, producer of Ning's sleeper hit Crazy Stone, will take producer credits on the ...
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NAFFgenre projects marketannounces full line-up andagenda
The 12th Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)'s newNetwork of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) has announced its full line-up and agenda,to run July 19-23, concurrent to the festival. NAFF will be spearheaded by the It Project market, which organizers boastis'the first project market dedicated to genre cinema,' with the Fantastic Film ...
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Hakim to head jury of Cinefan's Asian-Arab competition
The Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival has announced the juries for this year's tenth anniversary edition (July 10-20), which will feature four competition sections: Asian & Arab, Indian, First Features and In-tolerance. Leading Indonesian actress Christime Hakim will be president of the Asian & Arab competition jury. She has previously served on ...
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PiFan to open with Waltz With Bashir
The 12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) has announced its line-up and projects market agenda, with the festival to open with animated Cannes competition title Waltz With Bashir making its Asian premiere on July 18. PiFan will screen 205 films from 39 countries, including 125 features and 80 shorts.The ...
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Kung Fu Panda has strong China opening despite protests
Local protests against DreamWorks' animation Kung Fu Panda didn't do much to dent the film's opening weekend box office in China. The film received a warm welcome from the Chinese audience, including areas affected by the earthquake in Sichuan, which is also home to the giant pandas. On its first ...
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Russian drama Mukha wins top prize at Shanghai fest
The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) ended with diminished star power, but a strong theme of compassion and humanity on Sunday June 22. Only Asian stars such as Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok, Chang Chen and Fann Wong attended the closing ceremony.Russiandirector Vladimir Kott'sMukha, which depicts a peculiar father-daughter relationship, ...
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Chang, Yeoh launch management outfit Stellar Entertainment
Actress Michelle Yeoh, producer Terence Chang and Taiwanese media veteran David Tang officially unveiled their joint talent management company, Stellar Entertainment, in Hong Kong on Saturday. Based in Hong Kong and Taipei, the company has already signed acting talent including Kelly Lin (Sparrow), Zhang Fengyi (Red Cliff), Brandon Chang (The ...
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Winds Of September wins SIFF's Asian New Talent Awards
Taiwanese filmmaker Lin Shu-yu's Winds Of September was awarded best film at the Asian New Talent Awardsof the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Friday night (June 20). The film, produced by Eric Tsang with Hong Kong-based Mei Ah Entertainment and co-produced by Taiwan's Ocean Deep Films, is the ...
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Feng to shoot romantic comedy for Chinese New Year
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has confirmed that Chinese director Feng Xiaogang is to make a romantic comedy tentatively titled Don't Bother Me (Fei Cheng Wu Rao), rather than his originally planned satire The Nobles. Huayi Brothers will produce the $7.3m (RMB 50m) film that is set to star long-time Feng collaborator ...
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China's Sichuan province delays Kungfu Panda
Cinemas in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan Province have decided to postpone the release of DreamWorks' Kungfu Panda for five days in the wake of recent protests about the film. The film opened in China on Friday, June 20 except for all cinemas in Sichuan Province.Sichuan's five cinema circuits - Pacific Cinema ...
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Screen Australia announces seven board appointments
Chief executive of IBM Australia and New Zealand, Glen Boreham, is the first chair of the new super agency Screen Australia,while entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson is his deputy. Arts Minister Peter Garrett set the Australian film industry abuzz today by announcing the first board; the make-up should please everyone given ...
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Leung joins Distribution Workshop as head of sales
Hong Kong distribution executive Virginia Leung has joined start-up international sales outfit Distribution Workshop as head of sales. Leung was formerly senior manager, distribution, at Hong Kong-based Mandarin Films where she oversaw international sales of films such as action hits Dragon Tiger Gate and Flash Point and Tsui Hark's recent ...