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NewsWorks strikes Japanese deal with Paramount for Countdown To Zero
London-based The Works International has sold Japanese distribution rights for Lucy Walker’s Countdown To Zero to Paramount Pictures.
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NewsIFTA gets financial boost for US film export, to launch Filmart Pavilion
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has been awarded $248,000 to boost the export of US films, starting with an American Pavilion at Hong Kong Filmart in 2011.
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NewsFinecut sells I Saw The Devil to Japan, Germany
Korea’s Finecut has sold Kim Jee-woon’s grisly revenge thriller I Saw The Devil to Japan’s Broadmedia Studios and Splendid Film for German-speaking Europe and Benelux.
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NewsWe signs record setting deal for Wu Xia
We Distribution has sold Peter Ho-sun Chan’s $20m Wu Xia to Luxuries Resources for both Singapore and Malaysia for a record-breaking seven-digit figure.
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NewsFortissimo extends relationship with Jet Tone
Fortissimo Films and Wong Kar Wai’s Jet Tone Films have announced that Fortissimo chairman Michael J. Werner has boarded Wong’s The Grandmasters as associate producer.
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NewsStudioCanal strikes Japanese deal for The Last Exorcism
StudioCanal has sold all Japanese rights on horror hit The Last Exorcism to Comstock Group.
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Summit: US filmmakers need right partners in China
US producers aiming to work with China were advised to find the right partner and make films that Chinese audiences can relate to at the US-China Film Summit on Tuesday (Nov 2).
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Golden Network Asia adds two to slate
Hong Kong-based Golden Network has added two projects to its AFM slate - Malaysian animated feature Seefood and Zhang Meng’s The Piano In A Factory, which recently scooped the best actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
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NewsWild Bunch comes on board for Wong Kar Wai's Grandmasters
Wild Bunch’s slate also includes Under The Hawthorn Tree, Arrietty, The Moth Diaries, The First Beautiful Thing and The Squad.
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NewsDouble Edge boards Yip's Chinese Ghost Story
Taiwan-based Double Edge Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Wilson Yip’s $20m A Chinese Ghost Story.
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NewsMy Name is Khan to become first Indian revenue-sharing release in China
China will import Indian filmmaker Karan Johar’s My Name is Khan to China around the end of this month state-owned distribution company Huaxia Film Distribution confirmed today.
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NewsWinchester Capital starts new $250m fund
New fund to co-finance studio pictures is partnering with Toho-Towa, Kadokawa and RGM.
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NewsFirst four films chosen under New Zealand low-budget initiative
Guy Pigden, one-time employee of the UK’s Scala Productions, is one of four directors who will make the first ultra low-budget films under the New Zealand Film Commission’s (NZFC) “escalator” initiative.
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NewsChinese venture capitalist to fund film startup FromMovie Entertainment
The company’s first slate will include a film adaptation of Chinese bestseller Founder, a 3D animation and an adaptation of internet novel Marriage-Home; Xu Xiaoping to be chairman of the group, Donny Liang to serve as CEO.
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NewsWaititi says NZ industry needs to compromise to continue work on films like The Hobbit
New Zealand director Taika Waititi said that the resolution for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit to shoot in New Zealand will be a boost to the local Kiwi industry as well.
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NewsIntimate Grammar takes top prize in Tokyo, China has strong showing
Director Nir Bergman’s Intimate Grammar was awarded the Tokyo sakura grand prix and $50,000 at the closing ceremony of the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), which wrapped up on Sunday (October 31).
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NewsSeren Yuce's Majority wins best film prize at Mumbai Film Festival
Oliver Stone and Manoj Kumar were presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the festival’s closing ceremony.
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News"Busy" TIFFCOM sees visitors and exhibitors increase
The Tokyo International Film Festival’s market reports rise in visitors and exhibitors.
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NewsYuya Ishii picks up award as Tokyo Project Gathering wraps
The director picked up this year’s TPG Award for Hara Ga Kore Nande
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Filmko recruits Hollywood talents for 3D Monkey King shoot
Hong Kong’s Filmko is teaming up with Mandarin Films to finance and produce $30m 3D fantasy Monkey King, combining Hollywood stereoscopic and VFX talents with major Asia stars.