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Shochiku picks up worldwide rights to Vexille
Leading Japanese entertainment company Shochiku announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights to the CG animated feature Vexille. The $10m sci-fi film is directed by Fumihiko Sori, who previously worked on hit CG-animations Ping Pong as director and Appleseed as producer, from a script written by Appleseed writer Haruka ...
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Hong Kong's Hippopotamus signs up Wang for Wushu
Hong Kong production outfit Hippopotamus Films has signed China's Wang Wenjie to play the lead role in Antony Szeto's Wushu. Golden Network Asia is handling international sales on the $1.5m contemporary coming-of-age martial arts drama which is expected to shoot in China later this year. The story follows a teen ...
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300 powers into the top spot at international box office
Warner Bros Pictures International's violent epic 300 continues to indicate that it will be a worldwide phenomenon with a sensational $15.6m weekend in just 13 territories on 1,300 screens.It opened in Korea with a $6.3m five-day gross on 353 screens, it took $1.5m on 115 screens in Turkey, making it ...
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300 boosts US's box office, Mexico notes 118% year-on-year increase
Collective box office revenue of nine territories was up 29% last weekend compared to the same weekend in 2006, according to Screen International's Screen Index. North America led the increase - the territory saw a 41.1% year-on-year increase and took $149.6m at the weekend. Top film 300 - an adaptation ...
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Korea's T-Entertainment buys stake in Sio Film
KOSDAQ-listed T-Entertainment has announced it is buying into production company Sio Film. The entertainment conglomerate has acquired a 29.3% stake in the company that produced Park Chan-wook's Old Boy among other hits. T-Entertainment was formed last year when the publicly listed online games firm Nako Entertainment merged with music specialist ...
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Fortissimo picks up Yau Nai Hoi's Eye In The Sky
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia but including Japan and Korea, to action thriller Eye In The Sky from Hong Kong 's Sundream Motion Pictures. The directorial debut of Johnnie To's regular screenwriter Yau Nai Hoi, the film recently premiered at Berlin and is one of the opening ...
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Kadokawa Group Holdings launches licensing company
Japanese conglomerate Kadokawa Group Holdings (KGH) has established a licensing company, Kadokawa Production, to handle rights management and licensing for the group's various media subsidiaries. The move will consolidate and strengthen Kadokawa's ability to license its vast library of books, animation and films with its main focus on the domestic ...
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Shadow Of The Dog wins best film at Mumbai fest
Girish Kasaravalli's Kanada-language film In The Shadow Of The Dog (Nayi Neralu) won the best film award at the International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM) which concluded on Thursday. A trophy and a cash prize of $2,300 (Rs100,000) were presented to the director and a trophy and cash prize of ...
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China Film Group forms partnership with Taiwan's Era
Chinese state-owned conglomerate China Film Group and Hong Kong-based Era Information and Entertainment unveiled a long-term strategic partnership at a press conference today in Beijing. The two companies plan to co-produce 10 Chinese-language feature films over the next three years. It is understood that the two companies will set up ...
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Udine Far East Film Fest will open with Japanese blockbuster Dororo
Director Akihito Shiota's Dororo will open the 9th edition of Italy 's Udine Far East Film Festival (April 20-28). Shiota will be present at the Dororo's European premiere. The film - which has grossed $26 million to date, is a massive success in his native Japan and already spawned plans ...
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UTV to co-produce Shyamalan's Happening with Fox
Indian entertainment conglomerate UTV Motion Pictures has announced that it will co-produce M Night Shyamalan's next film The Happening with Twentieth Century Fox. UTV and Fox will share global revenues from the $57m film in all media, in perpetuity, equally. The deal is part of UTV's ongoing relationship with Fox ...
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Sony signs TV distribution deal with Korea's CJE
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a long-term distribution agreement with leading Korean film distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE). The deal gives SPTI the right to distribute a limited number of films from CJE's current and future slates to broadcasters across Asia excluding Japan, mainland China and Korea. Yu Ha's ...
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Japan's VAP ships Death Note DVDs in record numbers
Japanese video distributor Video Audio Project (VAP) has made an initial shipment of 500,000 box sets of Death Note and its sequel Death Note 2: The Last Name for a total of one million discs. The shipment sets a record for any domestic film released in 2006. The set also ...
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Malaysia, MPA unleash sniffer dogs on DVD pirates
Malaysia 's Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have jointly launched Operation Double Trouble, the latest anti-piracy effort which engages a pair of the world's first dogs trained with DVD-sniffing abilities. A demonstration was held today at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport ...
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Mittur moves to Paramount for interactive and mobile job in Asia
Pradeep Mittur has been appointed Paramount Pictures' vice president of interactive and mobile entertainment for the Asia Pacific region.Based in Singapore, Mittur will drive Paramount Digital Entertainment's interactive and mobile businesses across the region, and explore new revenue streams and technologies.Mittur, who will report to senior vice president of interactive ...
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Feeney moves to Hong Kong as vp, production, for Imagi
Computer graphics expert Brett Feeney has joined Imagi International Holdings as vice president of production based in Hong Kong.Feeney will be responsible for managing the company's animation production line and its 400+ artists, animators, and technical staff. His arrival coincides with the release of Imagi's first major theatrical film, TMNT: ...
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Ambitious Hong Kong ready to scale new heights
This year's multi-faceted Hong Kong film season stretches to nearly a month of world-class events under the Entertainment Expo banner.Each distinct event is looking to stretch its brand to new limits. Three events - Filmart, co-production market HAF and the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) - all kick off ...
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Kaneshiro to replace Leung in Woo's Red Cliff
Taiwanese-Japanese star Takeshi Kaneshiro has replaced Tony Leung Chiu-wai in the cast of John Woo's upcoming military epic Red Cliff, after the Hong Kong actor had to quit the project due to scheduling conflicts. In addition, Japanese star Shidou Nakamura, who recently appeared in Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, ...
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Asian Film Awards to honour Josephine Siao, David Bordwell
The inaugural Asian Film Awards will give its first Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema to Josephine Siao. Siao has starred in more films than any other Hong Kong actor, including Stephen Chow's Fists of Fury 1991 II, Corey Yuen's Fong Sai Yuk and Ann Hui's Summer ...
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WBPI enjoys powerhouse weekend at international box office
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore ruled the overseas arena as Music And Lyrics grossed an estimated $10.1m in what turned out to be a sensational weekend for Warner Bros.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) also reported record-breaking initial results for the Spartan battle epic 300 - which dominated the North American ...