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NewsHong Kong enters The Grandmaster into Oscar race
Martial arts epic entered for inclusion in the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2013.
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NewsWanda launches $8.2bn studio complex
China’s Wanda Group has announced plans for a $8.2bn (RMB50bn) film and television studio complex in the Chinese city of Qingdao at a ceremony attended by Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and a host of other US and Chinese stars.
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NewsTelevision, Good Road enter Oscar race
India has selected Gyan Correa’s The Good Road as its entry for the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards, while Bangladesh has submitted Mostofa S. Farooki’s Television.
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NewsUK submits Metro Manila to Oscars
Philippines-set crime thriller, made by British filmmaker Sean Ellis, submitted by the UK for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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NewsTokyo Film Festival unveils line-up
Competition section includes six world premieres and titles from Koji Fukada, Jun Robles Lana and Lee Ju-hyoung.
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NewsSimon Pegg begins 'Kill Me' shoot
Kriv Stenders’ crime thiller adds Warm Bodies’ Teresa Palmer and Luke Hemsworth to cast.
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NewsEFP reveals Busan line-up
Albert Serra and Pawel Pawlikowski are among 23 European film-makers who will be presenting their films in person as part of European Film Promotion’s (EFP) Opening Doors programme at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (Oct 3-13).
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NewsPiracy uses 24% of all bandwidth
NBC Universal-commissioned report reveals surging levels of online piracy, with 432m users seeking pirate content in a single month.
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NewsMumbai, Abbey Road team on Music Lab
The Mumbai Film Festival is partnering with the UK’s Abbey Road Studios and Bohemia Junction to launch a Music Composers Lab during this year’s edition of the festival (October 17-24).
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Sushant Singh Rajput joins Paani
Sushant Singh Rajput takes the lead role on Shekhar Kapur and Yash Raj Films’ Paani.
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NewsTaiwan submits Soul to Oscar race
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has selected Chung Mong-hong’s psychological thriller Soul as its official entry to the best foreign-language picture category of the Academy Awards.
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NewsIndia’s Film Bazaar launches Producers’ Lab
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), is introducing a Producers’ Lab at this year’s edition of the market.
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NewsCTE signs pacts with MVP, Universe
Pan-Asian broadcaster Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) has signed exclusive output deals with Hong Kong-based producers Mega-Vision Project Workshop (MVP) and Universe Entertainment.
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NewsAsia Summit fetes local strengths
How staying local could ironically be the key to reaching an international audience was one of the major messages to emerge at the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) second Asian Film Summit.
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NewsFilm New Zealand hires Mossman
Television New Zealand (TVNZ) programme commissioner joining Film New Zealand to encourage more productions to the country.
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NewsCMG closes Khumba sales
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has licensed rights on the animation and Toronto selection to Transmission in Australia, Kaleidoscope in the UK and Eagle for Italy.
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News'App' downloaded to North America
Bobby Boermans’s thriller about smartphone-addicted teens makes first sales to English-language territories.
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NewsTIFFCOM’s CoPro Connection line-up
TIFFCOM 2013, which runs during the Tokyo International Film Festival, has revealed its CoPro Connection line-up including projects from Sabu and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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NewsBuyers nab Moodysson’s 'Best!'
Lukas Moodysson’s 1980s-set feature picked up for Australia, Italy and Taiwan.