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Korea's Doosabu pacts with Polygon Entertainment
Korea's Doosabu Film has announced a deal for two effects-laden films with US-based Polygon Entertainment, headed by former ILM computer graphics supervisor Hans Uhlig. Uhlig's credits include The Perfect Storm and The Day After Tomorrow. The Korean company, which produced gangster comedy My Boss, My Hero and dramedy Sex Is ...
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Eros starts shoot for Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin
Eros International has started shooting Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin, a modern day retelling of the Arabian Nights story with a Bollywood twist. Eros makes its first move into visual effects through its new venture EyeQube Studios on the project. Eros is producing Aladin in association with Sujoy Ghosh's company Boundscript. Amitabh ...
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Thomson to establish Asian digital cinema hub
Thomson is set to establish its first digital cinema hub in Asia, via its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, in view of the rapid growth for such services in the region's digital media and entertainment industry. With the support of Singapore 's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the new facility will be ...
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Taiwan's Wall takes top honours at IFFI Goa fest
Taiwanese director Lin Chih Ju's The Wall was awarded the Golden Peacock and a cash prize of $25,500 (Rs1m) at the closing of the 38th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa last night. The Silver Peacock for most promising director and a cash prize of $12,700 (Rs500,000) went ...
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Shugrue steps down from Envoy, Brian Hall named new CEO
Ted Shugrue has stepped down as CEO and left Envoy Media Partners, the majority partner in Vietnam's largest theatre chain MegaStar Media JVC.Shugrue is parting ways with Envoy after he decided he would be unable to relocate his family to Vietnam.He is replaced by Brian Hall, who will be based ...
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Industry veterans launch Chinese cinema company CMG
Exhibition industry veterans Charles Wesoky and Ira Stiegler are teaming with Beijing-based film producer and distributor Jimmy Wu to launch a cinema management company, CMG (China) Limited, which aims to build 50 cinemas in China by 2011. Wesoky, former CEO of AMC and United Cinemas International (UCI), has been named ...
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Yushita joins Global Networks Asia from Discovery
Shigeo Yushita has been appointed channel director, Japan, Global Networks Asia, NBC Universal has announced. Yushita takes the Tokyo-based role immediately, to launch and expand NBC Universal's pay TV platforms in Japan. He reports to Raymund Miranda, managing director, Global Networks Asia, as well as to Taichi Fukuda, managing director ...
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Untold Beauty cranks up with Fan, new investors
Taiwanese heartthrob Fan Chih Wei will topline the cast of Singapore first-time director Roy Lim's Untold Beauty which will begin shooting this Wednesday (Dec 5) after a change in investors. Lim's Moving On is now producing the $689,500 (S$1m) supernatural romance Mandarin-language picture with MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. Other new investors ...
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Fox, Vertigo line up untitled thriller to shoot in Seoul
Producers Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and Bill Choi and Peter Kiernan of Management 360 are in Seoul scouting locations for an as-yet-untitled LA-cop-goes-to-Seoul project. The project, which is being developed at Fox Atomic, has been compared to the Michael Douglas-starrer Black Rain, which took an American police detective to ...
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Eguchi to head cast of Japanese action fantasy Goemon
Yosuke Eguchi has been cast as the lead in the big-budget Japanese action fantasy Goemon. He stars as the legendary 16th century ninja bandit Goemon Ishikawa. The cast also includes Takao Osawa, Ryoko Hirosue and comedian Gori. Goemon is director Kazuaki (Kaz) Kiriya's sophmore feature after a three-year absence since ...
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Lumiere, Infinity FCS join forces for Indo-Brazilian alliance
Indian film completion guarantor, Infinity Film Completion Services, has taken a 25% stake in Brazilian producer-distributor Lumiere as the first step in an Indo-Latin American alliance spanning production and distribution. The deal was inked by Lumiere founder and CEO Marc Beauchamps, Joshua Skurla who also recently joined Lumiere as an ...
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Prime Focus strikes acquisition deal for Post Logic and Frantic
The Prime Focus Group has moved into the North American market with the acquisition of Post Logic Studios, based in New York and Los Angeles, and Frantic Films VFX, which has offices in Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Vancouver.Financial terms were not disclosed. Prime already has six visual effects and post-production ...
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Certification opens for new Australian tax rebate
Film Finance Corporation Australia flings opens its doors tomorrow for applications from producers wanting to get an indication that their films will be certified Australianonce completed.The provision certificates they will get (if successful) will give producers the starting point to start using the new film financing system introduced this year ...
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Five Chinese cinema circuits join forces to protect local films
Five major cinema circuits in China have established an alliance, tentatively titled the Chinese Film Union, which aims to select 50 screens across the country to exclusively show Chinese-language films. The five circuits are Beijing-based New Film Association, Shanghai United Circuit, Stellar Megamedia Circuit, Wanda Cinema Circuit and China Film ...
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Sony Pictures Japan earns $140.8m for best year ever
Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ) has recorded its best year ever in the territory, with current total box office earnings of $140.8m (Y15.5bn) the company announced at its year-end press conference. While The Da Vinci Code ($82.26m) was Sony's only Top Ten megahit in 2006, the company has released a ...
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China's Polybona sets up talent management arm
Beijing-based film distributor Polybona Film Distribution has established an artist management wing - Polybona Artist Management - with actress Huang Yi as one of its first signings. Huang stars in the current hit release Brothers, a gangster drama directed by Derek Chiu, and also starring Andy Lau and Eason Chan. ...
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UTV scores Goal in 16 territories, while Beowulf keeps hold of top slot
Indian distributor UTV Communications had an international hit this weekend with Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, which enjoyed a $3.5m take and was the highest non-US entry into the top 40 chart.For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The film, which is the second feature from director Vivek Agnihotri, ...
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Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemas opens luxurytheatre
Malaysia's largest exhibitor Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) is further strengthening itself as a pioneer in South-East Asia with the opening of a luxury-hall-only boutique cinema. GSC Signature consists of two Gold Class and five Premiere Class halls with a combined 572 seats, making it the first such cinema without normal ...
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MPA and Singapore's MDA launch Centre for Content Protection
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) today launched the Centre for Content Protection (CCP) as the first clearing house and resource centre for digital distribution and content protection in Asia Pacific. The centre aims to expand consumer viewing choices through secure distribution of digital television as well as legal downloads, home ...
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Indian box office could rise 30% in next five years
Increased investment in the Indian exhibition sector could see the territory's box office gross increase by 30% in the next five years, Dodona Research predicts. The industry analysts found that a strong economy, retail boom and rising middle class disposable incomes in addition to expansions in the downstream exhibition business ...