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Lotte picks up sales on Ghastly, Architecture 101
South Korean sales company Lotte Entertainment is launching sales at Filmart on horror film Ghastly starring Hyo-min of popular girl group T-ara in her acting debut.
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Youku launches year-long Beautiful programme
China’s leading internet TV site is to launch its third annual original content inititative featuring four “micro-movies” from names including Tsai Ming-liang and Ann Hui.
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Showbox sends Thieves around Asia
Showbox seals key Asian territory deals on Macau diamond heist film The Thieves from Korean director Choi Dong-hoon.
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Memento Mori's Min Kyu-dong directs romcom for M-Line
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution is launching sales on romantic comedy All About My Wife at Filmart in Hong Kong.
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New Pangs, Chan films headline Universe slate
Hong Kong’s Universe Films Distribution is unveiling a slate of action films at Filmart, headed by new projects from the Pang Brothers and Benny Chan.
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CAR takes North American rights to Smuggler
US-based Cinema Asia Releasing (CAR) has acquired North American rights to Japanese cult hit Smuggler, which premiered in the Midnight Madness section of last year’s Toronto film festival.
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Blind Detective, Switch make Media Asia bow
Hong Kong’s Media Asia is introducing two high-profile projects at Filmart – Johnnie To’s crime drama Blind Detective and Jay Sun’s action drama Switch.
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Emperor fights fire with Derek Kwok, Nicolas Tse
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) is launching a big-budget fire-fighting drama at Filmart, to be directed by hot up-and-coming filmmaker Derek Kwok with Nicholas Tse heading the cast.
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Turkish cinema gets first push at Filmart
Turkish cinema will have a presence for the first time at Filmart this year, through a booth organised by Turkey’s Izmir Cinema Association (ICA).
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NewsFinecut calls into Love 911
South Korean sales company Finecut has picked up the upcoming romance Love 911 ahead of Hong Kong Filmart.
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MPF&TV carves out Filmart sales on Miss Nobody, Grey Skies
Moving Pictures Film & TV has concluded the sale of horror film Grey Skies and 3D film Robin Hood: Ghosts Of Sherwood to HGC Entertainment in China.
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NewsDream State, Port Of Call take top prizes at HAF
Philip Yung’s Port Of Call took the HAF Award for best film project from Hong Kong at the close of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), while Dream State, from Vietnam’s Bui Thac Chuyen, took the HAF Award for best project originating from outside Hong Kong.
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NewsEat Drink sequel to start for Hsu, Taihe
Taiwanese producer Hsu Li-kong, whose credits include Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Eat Drink Man Woman, and his Tangmeng Films are teaming with mainland film outfit Taihe Film And TV Co to co-finance Joyful Reunion, the long-mooted sequel to Eat Drink Man Woman.
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NewsApichatpong to produce Concrete Clouds
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of best film at Monday’s Asian Film Awards, has boarded Lee Chatametikool’s Concrete Clouds as a producer.
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NewsJia Zhangke urges China to revise technical requirements
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has called for the Chinese government to abolish the country’s technical qualification requirements which mean that only films of a certain technical quality can be submitted for the censorship process.
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NewsSidus sells Camellia to Movie On in Japan
South Korea’s Sidus FNH has announced a raft of deals on its titles, led by the omnibus film Camellia, produced by the Busan film festival and showcasing stories set in the port city of Busan.
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NewsGold Harbour to produce Give Me Five in 3D
Hong Kong’s Gold Harbour International Films is to produce $1.92m (HK$15m) Give Me Five to be shot in stereoscopic 3D, with a cast led by Josie Ho (The Courier), Taiwan’s Jiro Wang and mainland actors Siqin Gaowa and Sun Li.
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NewsMutual market intelligence is key, says ACE seminar
Producers in China and Europe need to reach a deeper understanding of each other’s markets before they can work together successfully, said panellists at a Sino-European co-production seminar at Filmart on Tuesday.
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NewsChina's Henan teams with Branko Lustig on Holocaust drama
Chinese Henan Film & Television Production Group Corporation (Henan Film Group) is ramping up two big budget film productions - $30m US-China co-production Melanie’s Violin and $22.5m (RMB150m) historic epic Generals Of The Yang Family.
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NewsMedia Asia backs next Johnnie To/Wai Ka-fai romantic comedy
Hong Kong studio Media Asia has unveiled Hong Kong-China co-production Romancing in Thin Air, to be directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, and star Sammi Cheng, Louis Koo and Chinese actress Gao Yuanyuan.