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Schepisi and Sardi on board for adaptation of The Secret River
Director Fred Schepisi is working with Jan Sardi on the adaptation of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River. While a script has yet to be written, the Australian producers have announced they have acquired the three-year option. 'It is a landmark book and we just wanted it known how excited ...
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Desert Dream wins best film at India's Cinefan festival
Korean-French co-production Desert Dream , directed by Zhang Lu, was awarded best film in the Asian-Arab competition of this year's Cinefan film festival, which wrapped in New Delhi on Sunday night (July 29). The film, which premiered in competition at Berlin this year, follows a mother and son who escape ...
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CinDi fest gives top prizes to Lumberjacks, Elephant
The inaugural Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (CinDi), which has a focus on discovering new Asian talent, closed July 27 with both the Directors' and Critics' juries giving the best film award jointly to the same two films - Yu Guangyi's The Last Lumberjacks and Woo Ming Jin's The Elephant ...
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Bangkok wraps amid rumours that event may fold
The 5th Bangkok International Film Festival closed on Sunday night with the world premiere of Thai action drama Muay Thai Chaiya amid widespread rumour that it was the last time the curtain would fall on the event. 'It is not definite that we won't have another one,' says Chattan Kunjara ...
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Celestial Movies launches on Indonesia's TELKOMVision
Celestial Movies launched today on the cable and DTH satellite platform operated by Indonesian pay-TV operator TELKOMVision. This positions Celestial Movies as the only Chinese movie channel available on all four major pay-TV platforms in the country. The Jakarta-based TELKOMVision is Indonesia 's only pay-TV operator that provides both DTH ...
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FFC greenlights new films from Campion, Blanks, Brooks
Five new Australian films have received a production greenlight from Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC), including projects from world-renowned directors Jane Campion (The Piano), Jamie Blanks (Urban Legend) and Sue Brooks (Japanese Story). All three of these films - UK/Australian period film Bright Star, horror film Long Weekend and comedy ...
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Korean film orgs pledge to co-operate as investment falls
Ten Korean film industry organisations, headed by the Korean Film Producers' Association (KFPA), issued the 'Korean Film Industry's Great Compromise Declaration' in Seoul this week. KFPA head Tcha Seung-jai, who is also head of major production house Sidus FNH, was joined by representatives from each sector of the industry - ...
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Venice lines up strong English-language programme
Hollywood will be jetting to the Lido for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival where a cluster of top shelf US directors are unveiling their current projects in a festival that underscores the force of English-language cinema.While six American pictures have made the competition cut, they are flanked ...
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Bangkok Market closes with a whimper due to poor attendance
The fourth Bangkok Film Market quietly came to a close today (Wednesday) in much the same manner as it opened softly two days ago.As in past years, the market is still plagued by the poor attendance of buyers. The situation has worsened this year when no free flights were given ...
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Osian's launches fund for Asian, Arab filmmakers
Indian arts organisation Osian's, organiser of the Cinefan film festival which is currently in progress in Delhi, is launching a development fund to support filmmakers from India, Asia and the Arab region. Dubbed the Film Fund: Osian's Originating Development (FOOD), thefund will provide grants ranging from $10,000-$25,000 for pre-production expenses ...
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BANGKOK: GMM's Kung Fu Tootsie tops Thai box office
GMM Tai Hub's Kung Fu Tootsie has become the first Thai film to top the box office chart in July which is overwhelmed with Hollywood blockbusters. Opening last Thursday on 129 prints, the action comedy grossed $1.3m (40m baht) over its first four days and knocked last week's number one ...
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BANGKOK: Right Beyond launches first Taiwanese-Thai co-production
At the Bangkok Film Market, Right Beyond Films has launched international sales of The Fatality, billed as the first ever co-production between Thailand and Taiwan. In the horror film, an unsuccessful man in Taipei attempts suicide only to wake up in the body of a coma victim in Bangkok with ...
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BANGKOK: Thailand's Mono Film set to double production
Up-and-coming Thai producer Mono Film is set to double its production output next year to eight films from last year's four. 'We now have more confidence after spending the last three years to learn the local and international markets,' says CEO Soraj Asavaprapha who founded the company with Pete Bodharamik ...
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Japan's Avex signs on for Korean comedy Highway Star
Korea 's Studio2.0 has sold musical comedy Highway Star to Avex Entertainment for Japan. A remake of Japanese film Enka No Hanamichi, the film tells the story of a wanna-be rocker who ends up singing Trot (Korean country-style music) behind a mask and becoming a star. Launched into pan-Asian popularity ...
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Fortissimo seduced by Lee's Help Me Eros
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide sales rights outside Taiwan and Malaysia to Help Me Eros, directed by Taiwanese actor-turned-filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng. The film tells the story of a stock-broker who finds comfort in marijuana, suicide hotline counsellor Chyi and local betelnut seller Shin after a market crash leaves him ...
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Malaysia's James Lee lines up Waiting, Hysteria
Malaysian pioneering independent filmmaker James Lee will shoot two new projects back-to-back - digital film Waiting For Love and his first 35mm mainstream feature film Hysteria. A six-day shoot has just begun on the digital film, the last installment of a love trilogy which also includes Before We Fall In ...
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Indian Film Company backs six new projects including Loot
The Indian Film Company, the Bollywood producer which recently started trading on the UK's Alternative Investment Market in June, has invested $24m (£12m) in six new film projects to be produced over the next year. The new projects bring Indian Film Company's slate of productions to a total of 20 ...
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Korea's Sidus FNH to move into distribution
Major Korean production house Sidus FNH has announced it will start distributing its own films late this year. The company's first self-distributed film looks likely to be romantic comedy Yong-eui-judo Miss Shin (original title) about a rich and accomplished young woman who goes about selecting a husband the same way ...
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Climates wins top prize at Japan 's Skip City festival
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates was awarded best picture at the 4th Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival (July 14-22) in Tokyo. The accolade also carried a $82,722 (Y10m) cash prize by fest sponsor Sony. The Turkey-France co-production depicts the volatile relationship between a professor and his young girlfriend. ...
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Suite Dreams director Mitani set to make Magic for Toho
Toho has announced details of Suite Dreams writer-director Koki Mitani's next project. Entitled The Magic Hour, the film will star Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo) and Koichi Sato (Sukiyaki Western Django). The story follows a young underworld figure (Tsumabuki) who promises to track down a hit man for his boss. When he ...