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Upside Down scores $10m deal with Cinema Solutions
Singapore's Upside Down Entertainment (UDE) has signed a $10m deal with US film finance company Cinema Solutions Inc (CSI) for two English-language feature films that the company will produce for the international market. CSI will provide up to 80% financing of romantic comedy Accidental Love, which is a quirky love ...
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Singapore, Philippines sign MOU for film collaboration
Singapore and the Philippines today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for greater media collaborations in the areas of animation, games, TV and film. 'The world is witnessing an unprecedented interest in Asian culture and media content. There is thus great potential and promise for ASEAN nations to leverage our ...
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The Show Must Go On takes best film award at Korea's Blue Dragons
Han Jae-rim's gangster drama The Show Must Go On nabbed Best Film and Best Leading Actor for Song Kang-ho at Korea's Blue Dragon Awards in Seoul on Friday.Hur Jin-ho picked up the Best Director award for his melodrama Happiness which portrays a love story between two terminally ill patients, starring ...
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Fuji TV's Bayside Shakedown team reassemble for The Guardian
Fuji TV's head feature film producer Chihiro Kameyama will reunite with the writer behind hit franchise Bayside Shakedown to produce police drama The Guardian (Dare Mo Mamotte Kurenai). Ryoichi Kimizuka is set to write and direct The Guardian (working title), starring Koichi Sato (Suite Dreams) as a detective who vows ...
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Eros and Carving Dreams to launch venture with Roshan project
Eros International has struck a co-production joint venture with Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, a new division of management and marketing company Carving Dreams Entertainment. Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, who has been a client of Carving Dreams for two years, will star in the first joint feature between the companies.Kishore Lulla, ...
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Israel's Tehilim takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
French director Raphaël Nadjari's Tehilim was awarded the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the 8th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 17-25). The award carried a cash prize of Y1m ($9,235). Tehilim examines Judaism through the story of an average Israeli family affected by the mysterious disappearance of their father ...
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Mermin's Shot In Bombay secures UK run at London's ICA
Liz Mermin's latest film, Shot In Bombay, will have a two-week UK theatrical run at London's ICA from Jan 18, 2008 before going on a regional tour. The documentary goes behind the scenes of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, starring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt. US director Mermin, who ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye, NFTS back Ahmed's The Last Thakur
Shooting will begin next month in Bangladesh on Sadik Ahmed's The Last Thakur, the 'Spaghetti Eastern' that is being co-produced by Curzon Artificial Eye and the UK's National Film & Television School. The film is being executive produced by Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell and Daniel Chamier. The producer is Tamsin ...
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Jakarta to close with premiere of Indonesian film Chants Of Lotus
The ninth Jakarta International Film Festival, or Jiffest, will for the first time close with a local Indonesian production, the world premiere of Nia Dinata's Chants of Lotus. The omnibus film of four stories addresses woman issues which are rarely portrayed in contemporary Indonesian cinema. The multiple effort is directed ...
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Jakarta fest to open with Persepolis, close with Lotus
The 9th Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest), which takes place Dec 7-16, will for the first time close with a local Indonesian film, the world premiere of Nia Dinata's Chants Of Lotus. The omnibus film of four stories addresses poignant women's issues which are rarely portrayed in today's Indonesian cinema. ...
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Mumbai, London sign co-operation agreement
London and Mumbai have solidified the relationship between their two film production industries by signing a city-to-city agreement. Signed by Film London and the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, the agreement sees the two cities pledge to 'share ideas and best practice on domestic and international film production ...
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Rotterdam reveals first competitors from Japan, Malaysia,Thailand
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23-Feb 3) has selected the first three films for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. They are genre-bending autobiographical family project Waltz In Starlight by Shingo Wakagi (Japan); Pusan award winner Flower In The Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) about two motherless brothers; and ...
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Medusa makes strides with Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi
Italian distributor Medusa Film made a solid imprint on the international top 40 this weekend with two films - Matrimonio Alle Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi - generating more than $7m and accounting for 5.2% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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UTV's Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal lines up Reebok deal
UTV Motion Pictures has struck a deal for Reebok to retail products related to its film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal across 535 stores in India. The film is about a struggling Asian football team in England. UTV noted that it had already recouped the film's $4m production costs ahead of ...
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Eros strikes joint venture with Mukta/Red Carpet
Indian media company Eros International has entered into a joint venture with Red Carpet Films to co-produce three to four films per year. Manish Goswami's Red Carpet Films is a Mukta Arts company. In a separate deal, Eros has taken global distribution rights to three Mukta Arts releases: Nagesh Kukunoor's ...
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China's Enlight Media to merge with Hurray Holding
Beijing-based film and TV producer Enlight Media is set to merge with NASDAQ-listed Chinese ring tone provider Hurray! Holding, to form a new company called Hurray Enlight Media Group. The merger is a share exchange deal, valued at around $160m, after which Enlight Media will hold 42% of the initial ...
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Vikram Bhatt shoots supernatural love story in Yorkshire
Yorkshire, which hosted this summer's Indian International Film Academy awards (IIFAs), is now hosting a new shoot by Indian film-makers. Vikram Bhatt is directing 1920 with a 17-day shoot in Bolton Abbey, Allerton Castle, Bramham Park and Ripley Castle. The film is a supernatural love story about an Anglo Indian ...
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Happy Feet's George Miller creates joint venture with Omnilab
A very significant deal was announced today that gives director George Miller access to significant finance and the digital technology and hardware, personnel, and management skills, enabling him to make more films of the scale of his most recent hit, Happy Feet.His company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, has joined forces with ...
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The Jammed named best film at Australia's Inside Film Awards
The Home Song Stories, The Jammed and Happy Feet were the three films that went home with the most honours from the Inside Film (IF) Awards, held tonight on Queensland's Gold Coast.The self-financed film The Jammed won best film, and best script for writer-director Dee McLachlan, while The Home Song ...
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Tom Yoda named chairman of Tokyo International Film Festival
Tatsumi (Tom) Yoda has been named chairman of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The announcement was made at the monthly board of director's meeting of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren). Yoda will chair the 21st edition for an unspecified term. Yoda holds many powerful public and ...