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Men's Group, Son Of A Lion and The Black Balloon vie for Australian awards
The Black Balloon is the stand-out nominee in Australia's 10th Inside Film Awards with 10 nominations including best film, director and script. Director Elissa Down's story, based on her own family, was produced by Tristram Miall.The Black Balloon 's two rivals for best film are Men's Group, produced by director ...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman to voice Oz animation Mary and Max
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) has joined the cast of the new claymation feature Mary and Max, to voice the role of Max.Mary and Max is the first film from writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, since their Oscar winning animated short Harvie Krumpet, winner of the 2004 Oscar for ...
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Sparrow, Monkeys lead nominees for Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Five films - two co-productions and one each from Hong Kong, India and China - are in the running to be crowned best feature at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs), being held in early November in Australia.The films are Tulpan (Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland/Poland/Germany), Uc maymun (Three Monkeys, Turkey/France/Italy), Men Jeuk ...
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India rolls out three big titles for Eid, Gandhi holidays
Two big Hindi movies and a Pakistani film are set to open on Thursday, October 2, in India in order to capitalise on the Eid and Gandhi Jayanti (Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary) holidays. Traditionally, the Muslim festival of Eid and the Hindu festival of Diwali are the two big holidays ...
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Quantum Of Solace to open in India one week before US
Sony Pictures Releasing India has announced that Quantum Of Solace will be released in India on November 7, one week before the US opening on November 14. The latest film in the Bond franchise will be released in the UK on October 31. However, this marks the first time that ...
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Tigerlily wraps production on Guo Xiaolu's La Chinoise
The UK's Tigerlily Films has wrapped production on London-set drama La Chinoise (working title), which is directed by Chinese writer and filmmaker Guo Xiaolu. Produced by Tigerlily's Natasha Dack through the Warp X Low Budget Initiative, the film follows a Chinese girl who moves to London and her encounters with ...
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Japan's Avex and Docomo establish mobile contents company
Avex Group film subsidiary Avex Entertainment and mobile communications giant NTT Docomo have partnered to establish a company to create mobile contents. Under the name Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc, the company will incorporate next February and begin operations in March. Avex will contribute 70% and Docomo 30% of start-up ...
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Ayres' Scratch The Surface one of ten at SPAAmart
Tony Ayres is attached to direct Scratch The Surface, which is inspired by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, who was brutally murdered by the two youngsters that calmly lead him away from a UK shopping centre 15 years ago. The film is one of ten projects given the thumbs ...
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Eleven Arts indulges in Daytime Drinking
Ahead of the upcoming Asian Film Market, South Korea's Fine Cut has announced deals for Toronto Discovery section film Daytime Drinking, which sold to Eleven Arts for North America, and horror film Hansel And Gretel, which went to Terracota Media for the UK and MFA+ Distribution for Germany and Austria. ...
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China's Voole.com launches legal film streaming network
Beijing-based Voole.com has launched an online film distribution network, which will stream around 1,500 films from the US, Hong Kong and Korea. Shao Yiding, CEO of Voole, announced at the China Internet Conference that Voole has signed digital distribution deals with Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Koreanbroadcaster MBC and Hong ...
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Hicks starts production on Boys Are Back In Town
Scott Hicks has started shooting UK-Australia co-production The Boys Are Back In Town, which is billed as a love story between a single parent, played by Clive Owen, and his two sons. The producers Tim White (Two Hands) and Greg Brenman (Billy Elliott) have sold North American rights in advance, ...
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South Korea, New Zealand sign co-production treaty
South Korea and New Zealand have signed a co-production treaty that will allow films from both countries to enjoy the same benefits for financing, incentives and support programmes. The treaty also provides for the importation of film equipment and visas for location shoots.Recent Korean films shot in New Zealand include ...
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Adams relocates to Australia to produce studio-financed films
Former Participant Productions executive Chris Adams is planning to relocate from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, and expand his business interests to encompass financing features developed by Melbourne-based actor, writer and filmmaker Steve Kearney. 'Steve is the creative genius and I'm the deal maker,' said Adams, who is American. Asked ...
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Japan's Toy-be changes names, launches Singapore co-production
Japanese film and media company Toy-be Entertainment is being renamed and relaunched as Adways Entertainment Co, following a capital alliance with Tokyo-listed mobile and internet advertising agency Adways Group in August. Adways Entertainment has also announced the first project for its 2008/2009 slate, which is a Japan-Singapore co-production tentatively titled ...
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Reliance subsidiary signs video deal with Paramount
India's Big Music & Home Entertainment, owned by Reliance ADAG group, has entered into a video licensing deal with Paramount Home Entertainment for library titles from Paramount and DreamWorks in India and Sri Lanka. Titles included in the deal include classics such as the Godfather films, The Ten Commandments and ...
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International sales for Chinese Lala's Gun picked up by Three Dots
Taipei-based Three Dots Entertainment picked up international sales rights to Chinese director Ning Jingwu's Lala's Gun, at the annual Beijing Screenings held last week.The deal marks the first time that Three Dotsis handlinginternational sales for a film directed by a mainland Chinese filmmaker.Three Dots follows Peggy Chiao's Arclight Films as ...
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Korea's Gwangju Citygets promotionboost from October,Metafive
Hong Kong-based October Pictures and Korean visual effects company Metafive Art, Science And Magic have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOU) with South Korea's Gwangju Metropolitan City to promote Gwangju as an Asian hub for international CGI projects. The two companies are also collaborating with Kinomotive Studio - founded by ...
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Pusan tips Korean producers' projects, co-production conference
Pusan's Asian Film Market has announced five projects for its Korean Producers In Focus (KPIF) and events for the Busan 2008 International Co-production Conference, in partnership with the Producers Guild of Korea (PGK). With the goal of supporting the ailing Korean film industry, the KPIF will showcase producers and their ...
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PVC-1 takes top prize at Bangkok's Golden Kinnarees
Colombian feature PCV-1, directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, took the grand prix in the main competition of the Bangkok International Film Festival's Golden Kinnaree Awards on Sunday night. The three-person jury, comprising South-East Asian filmmakers Eric Khoo, Lav Diaz and Aditya Assarat, applauded the film for its 'raw, original and relentless ...
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Elissa Down wins Australian Directors award for The Black Balloon
The director of The Black Balloon, Elissa Down, has won the highest feature film accolade for 2008 from her peers at the Australian Directors Guild (AWG). Click here for review.But the film's producer, Tristram Miall, collected the award on her behalf at a dinner last night (Saturday) in Sydney because ...