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Fu to head Fox Home Entertainment China
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) has appointed Alvin Fu as managing director of its China operations, effective immediately. Fu will be based in Guangzhou, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, alongside Zoke Culture Group which is TCFHE's exclusive distribution partner in mainland China. 'The appointment of Alvin marks ...
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Martial arts duck flies for Golden Network Asia
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has sold the comic Thai martial arts animation Duck Fight to three territories - Global Motion Picture's Luxor brand for Eastern Europe including Russia, Golden Films for Brazil, and Gulf Film for the Middle East.Billed 'the ultimate under-duck movie,' the animated film is set during ...
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Lionsgate strikes US, UK and Australia deal for BBC's Earth
Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide's documentary feature Earth.The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on ...
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Eros signs three-year deal with Bollywood producer Venus
Eros International has signed a three-year output deal with Bollywood production company Venus. All Venus films for the next three year will be co-produced with Eros.Eros will keep copyrights for distribution across all formats. Two films are already in development with directors Abbas Mastan (Humraaz) and Priyadarshan (Garam Masala).Venus was ...
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Prasad to direct Cohn's remake of Yellow Handkerchief
Indian-born filmmaker Udayan Prasad will direct and William Hurt and Maria Bello star in producer Arthur Cohn's remake of Japanese classic The Yellow Handkerchief, it was announced today at a press conference in Tokyo. The $15.5m remake moves the story's locale from Hokkaido to Louisiana in the late 1940s. Production ...
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Prime and ImaginAsian take A Bloody Aria to US
Korea's Prime Entertainment has pacted with New York-based ImaginAsian Entertainment to co-distribute comic thriller A Bloody Aria in the US.Dylan Marchetti, director of theatrical productions and acquisitions for ImaginAsian, signed with Juyoung Park, senior manager of international sales and acquisitions for Prime Entertainment at EFM.'ImaginAsian is about bringing top-quality Asian ...
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Sony sells Japanese anime to France
Rezo Films has acquired French rights from Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) to the Japanese anime title Tekkonkinkreet, whichreceived its world premiere in Berlin's Generation 14Plus strand.Rezo has set an April 25 theatrical release date for the Studio 4°C andAniplex co-production, which will be renamed Amer Beton for the Frenchmarket.Tekkonkinkreet is ...
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Fortissimo sells Lost Children to Zeitgeist, Red Envelope for US
Fortissimo Films has sold US rights for award-winning documentary Buddha's Lost Children to Zeitgeist Films for theatrical and Red Envelope Entertainment for DVD. Catherine Le Clef, newly appointed senior vice president, TV and ancillary, brokered the deal with both companies. Directed by Mark Verkerk, Buddha's Lost Children has won multiple ...
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Megabox targets women with new acquisitions label
Major Korean exhibitor Megabox Mediaplex debuts a new acquisitions label in EFM. The Megabox label will acquire foreign films for theatrical release in its multiplexes, then to go to cable on sister company On*Media's new film channel Movie OnStyle.Megabox owns 10 theaters with a total of 91 screens nationwide, and ...
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Three Dots closes key Asian territories on Spider Lillies
Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment has sold Panorama title Spider Lilies to CNS Entertainment for Korea, Sahamongkol for Thailand, and Passion Entertainment for Singapore. The sole Taiwanese feature in this year's Berlinale official selection, the film is Zero Chou's second feature drama. Her debut Splendid Float won Best Taiwan Film at ...
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Madman signs on for In The Shadow Of The Moon
Channel 4 International has signed an Australia/New Zealand deal with Madman for documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon. David Sington's documentary about the US space programme sold to THINKFilm for North America during Sundance, where it won the world documentary audience award. The film, originally commissioned by Channel4's Hamish ...
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Jeonju selects film-makers for digital shorts showcase
The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has announced Pedro Costa, Harun Farocki, and Eugène Green have been selected for Jeonju Digital Project 2007, formerly known as Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers. JIFF, which has a focus on independent and digital films, has been sponsoring short film projects annually ...
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Dongsoong sets up production and distribution subsidiary
Korean arthouse distributor and exhibitor Dongsoong Art Center has set up a subsidiary, JinJin Pictures, to handle production and distribution, with a new additional focus on commercial films.JinJin Pictures chief executive officer Nan-sook Kim is at the EFM shopping for films with Tae-Won Jung from her Business Strategy Plan & ...
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Don Johnson and Jackie Chan plan action comedy Pretty Baby
Don Johnson and Jackie Chan are set to co-star in action comedy A Bullet For Pretty Baby. Arthur Sarkissian, who worked with Chan on the Rush Hour trilogy, is producing with George Edde. The contemporary San Francisco-set story is about a high-class pimp (Johnson) and small-time crook (Chan) both ...
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Italy soars, Japan and North America sour in global box office
Six of the nine major territories saw increases in box office takings this week but drops in the North American and Japanese markets accounted for a virtually static year-on-year comparison, according to the Screen International Screen Index. Collective global grosses were boosted by just 0.19% compared to the same week ...
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Japanese baseball star to head promotions for Bruckheimer movies
Retired Japanese baseball star Tsuyoshi Shinjo has been tapped to head domestic promotions for three Jerry Bruckheimer productions slated for release in Japan in 2007. Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Buena Vista International (BVI) Japan chose the popular sports figure to lead promotions for three upcoming releases produced by hit-maker Bruckheimer. ...
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New Korean buyer Inmoa launches at Berlin
New Korean importer/distributor Inmoa Entertainment has made its market debut at EFM this week. Thomas Kim, former acquisitions director at major Korean importer I Vision, has teamed up with Isaac Kwon, chief executive officer of IT venture Inmoa Communications, to set up this entertainment division. Kim, whose previous pick-ups include ...
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Cineclick sells rights to two features in Berlin
Cineclick Asia has closed deals on Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage to Italy and Forum title Ad Lib Night to Japan. Italy's Lucky Red president Andrea Occhipinti signed with Cineclick managing director Young-joo Suh after viewing a rough cut tape of Wang Quan-an's Tuya in Rotterdam. 'It was a discovery ...
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Stars announced for Kim Ji-woon, Yim Pil-sung features
Cineclick Asia has announced top-tier casting locked for two of its pre-sales films, Kim Ji-woon's The Good, the Bad, and the Weird and Yim Pil-sung's Hansel and Gretel, both from new production house Barunson. Cannes director Kim Ji-woon's film has three top-of-the-line stars to play the main heroes in the ...
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Korea's Core Studio picks up Singaporean Untold Beauty
Korean sales agent Core Studio has picked up worldwide sales rights for Singaporean writer-director Roy Lim's horror film Untold Beauty from Rebel Production Pte Ltd. France's Wild Side Films acquired French-speaking territories for the film at last year's Asian Film Market, making it the first ever pre-sale of a Singaporean ...