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Antique and Go Go 70's added to Fine Cut Filmart slate
Recently-launched Korean sales agent Fine Cut has announced two additions to its slate from United Pictures - Antique, directed by Min Kyu-dong (All For Love), and Go Go 70's, directed by Choi Ho (Bloody Tie) and starring Cho Seung-woo.United Pictures is a new joint production and financing outfit set up ...
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THE BUSINESS: Hong Kong Filmart round-up
Screen's team at Filmart look at some of the key deals concluded at this year's Filmart in Hong Kong.Click on headline to see storyUniverse kicks up a storm of pre-sales for Pang Brothers Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution has scored a string of pre-sales on the Pang Brothers' The Storm ...
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Khoo, Tan and Tong top Raintree slate
Celebrating its 10th anniversary as Singapore 's leading producer, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures has unveiled a slate of five projects, including three by the most prominent local film-makers and two co-productions with Hong Kong 's Salon Films.Eric Khoo will direct Chinese Rose - a biopic of 'Queen of Striptease' Rose Chan, ...
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Empress finds champion in Golden Network
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has picked up worldwide rights outside Asia to martial arts epic An Empress And The Warriors from United Filmmakers Organization.Hong Kong's Mei Ah Entertainment is handling Asian sales on the film, directed by action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-tung and starring Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen and ...
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US independents march on Asia
US interest in Asia's film and entertainment industries is hotting up with Lionsgate becoming the latest mini-major, following The Weinstein Company and Hyde Park Entertainment, to make a major investment in the region. Lionsgate is understood to be one of the main investors in a Hong Kong-based operation being set ...
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Ramy Choi's Fame to develop new Taiwanese talent
Former Fortissimo Films executive Ramy Choi has launched a production and talent management outfit, Fame Universal Entertainment, which aims to develop up-and-coming talent with a focus on Taiwan.The company is representing several award-winning Taiwanese films as international sales agent - including Singing Chen's Berlin Forum entry God Man Dog, Doze ...
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Sundream signs output deal with The Weinstein Company
Hong Kong's Sundream Motion Pictures has sealed an output deal and a two-picture co-production pact with The Weinstein Company (TWC), and is also lining up a slate of new productions. Under the output deal, Sundream will handle theatrical and video distribution of all TWC titles deemed suitable for the Hong ...
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Oldboy star Yoo says Hello to rom-com
Oldboy villain Yoo Ji-tae is to star in M&FC's tentatively titled Hello, Schoolgirl, a romantic comedy based on a hugely popular South Korean manga by Kang Full.The film, which starts shooting on Wednesday, is directed byRyu Jang-ha - whose previous film When Spring Comes starred another Oldboy star Choi Min-shik.Boyun ...
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HK five sign up for Enlight action
Beijing-based Enlight Pictures is working with five Hong Kong film-makers on a series of action genre films developed by the company's in-house development department.The plans include Chen Zhen from Gordon Chan (Painted Skin). Donnie Yen will play folk hero Chen Zhen, the character portrayed in Bruce Lee's Fist Of Fury ...
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Terminator finds Korean future with Mars
South Korea's Mars Entertainment has made a number of acquisitions including a deal for The Halcyon Company's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Christian Bale will star in the fourth in the Terminator series to be directed by McG for a 2009 release. Warner Brothers hold US rights while Sony recently ...
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Guard posts pre-sales to UK and Thailand
South Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has pre-sold mystery thriller The Guard Post to the UK's Showbox and J-Bics for Thailand.The film tells the story of an officer sent to solve the mystery of a massacre at a guard post overlooking the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.Directed by Gong Soo-chang, ...
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Upside Down signs $11m deal with Hanwen
Singapore's Upside Down Entertainment (UDE) has sealed an $11m co-financing and co-production deal with China's Hanwen Animation Co (HAC), it was announced here today.The slate includes 3D animated feature Last Days and live-action TV series Colourful Fish. Both are English-language projects aimed at international markets.Most of the production will take ...
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Lotte's Show goes on to Germany
South Korea's Lotte Entertainment has sold gangster drama The Show Must Go On to Splendid Film for Germany.Han Jae-rim's gritty film stars Song Kang-ho (The Host) as a middle-aged gangster struggling with work and family'Splendid and Lotte have done business together before and they had ex press ed interest in ...
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Syndromes to be released with blacked-out scenes
Acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has finally accepted the local censors' verdict of removing 'objectionable' scenes from his Syndromes And A Century after a second appeal was rejected. But he has replaced the censored scenes with silent scratched black film which amount to about 15 minutes with the longest such ...
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India's Century buys UK effects house Men From Mars
India-based Century Communications has acquired UK-based visual effects house Men From Mars.Century is the independently owned media company that is the parent of Indian effects company Pixion.Simon Frame and Phil Attfield founded Men From Mars in 2000 after leaving Men In White Coats. The company has since worked on films ...
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Distant Horizon unveils cast of Chan's Don't Look Up
Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan's remake of Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up will start shooting in Los Angeles on April 14, with a cast including Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin and Reshad Strik. Distant Horizon is producing in association with Japan's Action 5 and Hakuhodo. Hong Kong ...
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Frozen, Tingya win top honours at Mumbai fest
Frozen, directed by Shivaji Chandrabhushan, was awarded with the special prize of the jury at this year's MAMI International Film Festival in Mumbai, which closed March 13 with a screening of Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest. Meanwhile Marathi-language Tingya was awarded best Indian film by both the five-member international jury ...
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Enlight Pictures unveilsslate of co-productions, imports
Beijing-based Enlight Pictures, the film sector of Enlight Media Group, has unveiled a slate of four films that it will invest in and distribute in 2008. The company also announced that it plans to expand its business to international co-productions, acquisitions and project development, in addition to its current film ...
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Sydney fest appoints Cameron; Liebmann joins Hoyts
Two significant but unrelated film appointments were announced in Sydney today: Fiona Cameron is the new general manager of the Sydney Film Festival and Matthew Liebmann is leaving SKYCITY Cinemas in New Zealand to be the commercial and new business director at Hoyts. Liebmann has also worked with SKYCITY co-owner ...
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Eros strikes DVD deal with Wal-Mart for Canada stores
Indian film powerhouse Eros International and retail giant Wal-Mart have announced a collaboration to sell Bollywood content through the latter's distribution network in Canada.Eros DVDs will be available in 27 Wal-Mart stores in Canada and the distribution deal will subsequently be extended to the entire Canadian Wal-Mart network.One of the ...