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Singapore box office posts double-digit increase in 2007
Singapore posted its biggest box office year ever in 2007, with total receipts up 16.7% to $107.54m (S$153m), marking the first double-digit growth in recent years. The surge was led by Hollywood blockbusters, Spider-Man 3 and Transformers, which smashed the 10-year-record held by Titanic to become the top two all-time ...
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NDTV, Shetty, Doshilaunch platform for world cinema in India
NDTV Imagine, the entertainment channel recently launched by Indian broadcaster NDTV, has formed a joint venture with Adlabs founder Manmohan Shetty and Alliance Entertainment chief Sunil Doshi to release worldcinema titles in India. The newlabel, NDTV Lumiere,aims to release the best of contemporary world cinema titles in Indian theatres immediately ...
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Hewison to exit Australian Film Institute before 50th awards
In the lead up to its 50th anniversary awards and in the wake of James Hewison's resignation, the Australian Film Institute has begun searching for a new chief executive.AFI chair Morry Schwartz told The Age newspaper that he hoped the organisation would be able to get someone of the same ...
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ScreenWest's low-budget initiative gets Wasted
Teen thriller Wasted will be the third feature supported under West Coast Visions, the low-budget initiative run by Western Australia 's film agency ScreenWest. A high school party goes dangerously off the rails in what will be the debut film of writer/director Ben C. Lucas, but one teenager finds that ...
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King Naresuan films boost Thai 2007 box office by 20%
Boosted by two local mega-blockbusters King Naresuan Part 1 and 2, Thailand's box office scaled new heights in 2007 to reach $122.35m (THB3.8bn), representing a huge surge of 20.63% year-on-year. Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol's two historical epics topped the overall box office chart with each raking in over 200m baht, making ...
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French producers arrange rendezvous with India
A high-powered delegation of French producers will be visiting India later this week for the 'Rendezvous With French Cinema' which aims to expand the audience for French film in a market that is dominated by local product. The French film festival opens in Mumbai on Jan 27 before travelling to ...
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Chinese government lauches anti-porn campaign
A group of 13 Chinese government departments are clamping down on pornographic content on the internet and mobile phones, in a nationwide campaign which will last until after the Beijing Olympicsare finished in September. The 13 departments, including the Ministry of Public Security, the Propaganda Department, the State Administration of ...
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MPA to hold the second anti-piracy contest in China
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has teamed up with the 15th Beijing Student Film Festival (BSFF) and the China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCPA) to launch the second annual China-wide anti-piracy video contest. The theme of this year's competition is 'Respect Copyrights, Uphold Fair Competition, Protect Originality, Stay Away from ...
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Mumbai film fest launches short film competition
The International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM) is launching a short film competition as part of the celebrations for its ten-year anniversary this year. Organised by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI), the 10th IFFM will be held March 6-13. While the festival line-up will be announced next ...
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Melbourne Film Festival fund blesses Kokkinos
Blessed, the third feature from Ana Kokkinos (Head On, The Book Of Revelations), has taken a big step closer to going into production with a cash offer from the Melbourne International Film Festival's (MIFF) production fund. MIFF's Premiere Fund provides small amounts of strategic investment and has just announced four ...
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Star launches second Chinese Movies channel
Regional broadcaster Star has launched Star Chinese Movies 2, a new channel that will screen Chinese-language films produced from the 1970s to the 1990s. The channel will draw on Star's library of more than 600 Chinese-language movies produced by Golden Harvest and D&B, among other legendary production houses, and starring ...
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Japan's Usen dissolves $283m contents fund
Japanese media and communications conglomerate Usen Inc has announced the dissolution of its $283m (Y30bn) contents fund only two years into its ten-year lifespan. Dubbed 'UD No. 1', the fund was launched on January 31, 2006 through 50:50 investment by Usen and Daiwa Securities and their respective group companies.The fund ...
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Japan's Usen dissolves $283m content fund
Japanese media and communications conglomerate Usen Inc has announced the dissolution of its $283m (Y30bn) contents fund only two years into its ten-year lifespan. Dubbed 'UD No. 1', the fund was launched on January 31, 2006 through 50:50 investment by Usen and Daiwa Securities and their respective group companies.The fund ...
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IMAX signs to build two cinemas in Philippines
IMAX Corp. and SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall operator in the Philippines, have signed a deal that will see two IMAX digital projection systems installed at shopping malls in the cities of Manila and Cebu. Both cinemas are expected to open by late 2009. SM already operates an IMAX ...
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Indian Censor Board derails Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson's India-set Darjeeling Limited was derailed in the country where it was filmed last week, when the Indian Censor Board denied the film a certification. The board claimed that the film, which was scheduled for release on Jan 18, did not have adequate permissions to shoot animal life. While ...
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There Will Be Blood, NoCountry For Old Menlead Oscar nominations
Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood lead the Oscar race with eight nods each; Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton and Joe Wright's Atonement follow with seven each.All are in the Best Picture race, along with Jason Reitman's Juno. Wright is ...
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Shochiku adds Sakamoto, Oikawa titles to EFM line-up
Japanese major Shochiku has unveiled its line-up for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM) which includes new titles from Ataru Oikawa and Junji Sakamoto. Oikawa's recently completed rural horror film Shrill Cries Of Summer is based on a successful franchise extending from video games to manga and TV animation. Oikawa ...
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Control Room director Noujaim heads Pangea Day film project
Jehane Noujaim, director of acclaimed 2004 documentary Control Room, is heading a unique project offering a global day of film.Pangea Day, which is scheduled for May 10, 2008, will be held in eight different cities: Cairo, Dharamsala, Jerusalem, Kigali, London, New York, Ramallah and Rio de Janeiro. The venues will ...
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Australian Directors Guild to wait before replacing Macrae
The Australian Directors Guild (ADG) is now without an executive director following the surprise departure of Drew Macrae but the organisation will not invite applications for the role until after the next board meeting in early February. 'We have been rebuilding for 18 months and are still in the process ...
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Phillip Noyce honoured as Australia charmsHollywood
Director Phillip Noyce was honoured on Saturday night in Hollywood for his significant contribution to the Australian film industry and for excellence in promoting Australia in the US.Noyce was presented with his award by Harrison Ford, the star of two of his US films, Patriot Games and Clear and Present ...