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Majid Majidi to make India-set film for UTV subsidiary Spotboy
Iranian director Majid Majidi will shoot his next film extensively in India for UTV Motion Pictures subsidiary SpotBoy.Majidi previously directed the 2005 Iranian box office smash The Willow Tree and his drama Children Of Heaven was nominated for a foreign language Oscar in 1999. Details of the upcoming film were ...
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Three-way battle in $16.68m Japanese box office weekend
Resident Evil: Extinction, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, triumphed in a threeway battle at the Japanese box office at the weekend.The horror action-fest earned $5.21m, shooting down Toho-distributed nostalgic drama Always: Sunset On Third Street 2, which earned $4.77m. Released on 331 and 330 screens respectively, per screen averages were ...
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Paramount on board for local distribution of Fraser's Dean Spanley
Paramount Pictures will distribute Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley in Australia and New Zealand.As previously reported, Toa Fraser will direct the whimsical father and son tale to star Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Northam.The film will start shooting Nov 12 on location in the east of England. Delivery is set for mid-2008.The ...
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Singapore's digital TV service signs studio deals
SingTel's new digital pay-TV service, mio TV, has formed strategic partnerships with four major movie studios.The agreements with NBC Universal,Twentieth Century Fox, Disney-ABC International Television and Eros International will 'bring almost 80% of all major Hollywood output into Singapore homes', said Low Ka Hoe, director of mio TV and Content. ...
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Da Silva launches boutique consultancy Novo Films
EuropaCorp artistic advisor Francois Da Silva has left the company to establish his own boutique consultancy, Novo Films. The Paris-based outfit will advise on international co-production projects and acquisitions, with a focus on emerging territories, for a range of clients including EuropaCorp. Among the projects that Da Silva is advising ...
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iDream sells Shelley to South Africa, Australia
India's iDream Independent Pictures has sold Lorraine Senna's Americanizing Shelly, starring Beau Bridges and Namrata Singh Gujral, to several territories including South Africa 's Ster Kinekor and Rialto for Australia and New Zealand. The film has also gone to RRS Entertainment (Germany), Falcon Films (Middle East) and DD Dream International ...
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Film Library picks up Chinese dramaBefore The Sunrise
Hong Kong-based sales outfit The Film Library has picked up international rights to Derek Chiu's historical drama Before The Sunrise (previously known as Road To Dawn). The film follows the story of the 'founder of modern China' Sun Yat-sen - whose Republican revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty - during his ...
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Korea's Megabox snaps up Penelope, Ramen Girl
Continuing the Korean buying spree at the AFM, Seoul-based exhibitor Megabox has snapped up two titles - romantic comedy Penelope, starring Reese Witherspoon, from Hyde Park International, and The Ramen Girl, starring Brittany Murphy, from Media 8 Entertainment. Megabox entered acquisitionsat this year's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin andwas ...
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Korea's Mirovision startscreating Tomorrow News
Korea's Mirovision has unveiled two new productions - disaster thriller Tomorrow News and epic romantic comedy Once Upon A Time. Tomorrow News is based on the cult manga of the same name for which Mirovision has acquired rights for both big screen and TV formats. The project is currently in ...
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Import/Export wins best film at Bangkok World fest
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export was named best film at the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok on Saturday night. Best director was awarded to Semih Kaplanoglu for Egg, which recently swept the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey. Nina Menkes' Phantom Love bagged best artistic achievement with US ...
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Japan's Madhouse sells Ninja Scroll remake rights
Japanese animation studio Madhouse has sold live-action remake rights to cult anime title Ninja Scroll to Warner Bros Pictures. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the film sold more than 1 million DVD copies in the US and had a successful theatrical run in its home market. The remake deal with Warner ...
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Mirovision leads Korean buying charge at AFM
South Korea is re-emerging as a buying force at this market with several Korean distributors making multiple acquisitions of hot US and international product. Mirovision has been the most aggressive on the buying front, acquiring nine titles, including Ed Zwick's Defiance from Essential Entertainment, The Women from Inferno Distribution and ...
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CJ pre-sells Park Chan-wook's new project to France, Russia
Korea's CJ Entertainment has pre-sold Park Chan-wook's Untitled Project, set to star Song Kang-ho, to France's Wild Side Films and Russia's Maywin Media. Currently in pre-production, the film is about a small-town priest who volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. It was previously ...
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Jang to direct Korean remake of A Better Tomorrow
Veteran Korean filmmaker Jang Hyun-soo is attached to direct the Korean remake of John Woo's classic 1980s Hong Kong action film A Better Tomorrow. Jang's most recent film, Everybody Has Secrets (2004) starring Lee Byung-hun and Choo Sang-mee, was a sexy romantic comedy, but he is best remembered for noirish ...
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iDream takes on Santosh Sivan's Boy With Grenade
Mumbai and London-based iDream Independent Pictures has boarded Boy With Grenade, the latest project from Indian filmmaker Santosh Sivan whose Before The Rains screened at Toronto this year. iDream will fully finance and handle international sales on Boy With Grenade which was one of the selected projects at this year's ...
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Golden Network pacts with Dadi Century for three
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has picked up three titles from China 's Dadi Century Film, including martial arts drama Wushu, which now has Jackie Chan on board as executive producer. Directed by Antony Szeto, the $6m drama follows a group of children under-going a gruelling training programme ...
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Asian Content Center launched with NHK support
Former Amuse executives Hisashi Yamamoto and Takaomi Deguchi have launched a film and TV production outfit, Asia Content Center (ACC), with an innovative financing model backed by its ties to Japanese public broadcaster NHK. NHK has first option to pre-buy ACC productions for up to 80% of each project's budget ...
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UFO beams up Empress And The Warriors
Hong Kong production house United Filmmakers Organization (UFO) is attending the AFM to directly sell romantic action picture An Empress And The Warriors, directed by Tony Siu-Tung Ching. The $15m production, which recently wrapped in mainland China, features a top Asian cast including Donnie Yen, Leon Lai and Kelly Chen. ...
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First Look takes US rights to Blood Brothers
First Look Studios has acquired US rights to John Woo and Terence Chang-produced Blood Brothers, which is being sold by Fortissimo Films. The $10m gangster noir closed this year's Venice Film Festival and features a top Asian cast including Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Liu Ye and Shu Qi. Directed by ...
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Jaman seals strategic partnership with Terra.com
Online film community Jaman.com has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with leading Latino internet portal Terra.com. The deal see Jaman become a featured provider of Spanish-language and Latino-themed movies for Terra.com's community of 6.6 million unique users. In addition, Jaman will showcase to its users, the four short films that ...