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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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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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NewsDistribution Workshop launches Tycoon, Christmas Rose
Distribution Workshop, the Hong Kong-based sales arm of Chinese studio Bona Film Group, is attending Filmart with a slate of hot new projects including gangster thriller The Last Tycoon starring Chow Yun Fat.
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Fortissimo goes Full Circle
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside China to Zhang Yang’s upcoming feature Full Circle.
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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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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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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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NewsSony-MGM's 21 Jump Street leads US charts on $35m
The action comedy starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum stormed the citadel to dominate the weekend, some way ahead of Universal’s The Lorax in second place which has reached an excellent $158m after three weekends.
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Italy doc wins audience award for international feature at Thessaloniki
Other winners include Encardia, Sayome, Canicula.
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NewsSwiss Oscar entry Summer Games receives three Swiss Film Prizes
Switzerland’s Oscar entry Summer Games was the big winner at this year’s Swiss Film Prize “Quartz 2012” ceremony held in Lucerne at the weekend, picking up the awards for Best Fiction Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
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Fat Kid, Brooklyn Castle triumph at SXSW audience awards
The Austin festival announced the final winners roster at the weekend (17) as film-goers handed Matthew Lillard’s Fat Kid Rules The World the Narrative Feature Spotlight prize.
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Zoey Deutch and Margo Martindale in talks to join Alcon’s Creatures
Shooting on Beautiful Creatures, the supernatural love story about a dark secret in a Southern community, will commence shooting next month in and around New Orelans.
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NewsLily Collins to star in Mortal Instruments for Constantin, Unique
Harald Zwart will direct the bestseller adaptation about a young girl in New York who discovers she belongs to a clan of half-angel warriors who must defeat all manner of supernatural creatures.
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IFFLA heads towards tenth anniversary event in April
Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong and Prashant Bhargava’s Patang bookend the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (IFFLA) which will screen 33 films from around the world.
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NewsMiramax CEO Mike Lang announces sudden departure
The widely-admired executive exits after a brief and impressive tenure and will stay on as consultant to the company during the search for a successor.
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Film Independent’s second Documentary Lab begins in LA
Film Independent’s seven-week intensive programme has got underway in Los Angeles for filmmakers in the non-fiction arena.
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NewsOne World Media Awards unveils nominees
Miss Bala, Otelo Burning and Shuga: Sex, Love And Money are up for the best drama prize.
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NewsMarco Mueller appointed Rome artistic director
After weeks of political infighting, Marco Mueller has finally been appointed as the artistic director of the Rome Film Festival.
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Media Luna picks up rights to UK thriller Unconditional
Christian Cooke and Harry McEntire star in thriller from Stone City Films.