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Irresistible Films outlines strategy, new management team
New Hong Kong-based production company and filmfund, Irresistible Films, has announced its management team, including managing director Nansun Shi and general manager Lorna Tee. In addition, the company has appointed Jannie Wai as production co-ordinator. The appointments were announced by Irresistible Films director Buddy Marini, representing Japan's Avex Entertainment.The experienced ...
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The Weinstein Company's Asian Film Fund casts wide net
The Weinstein Company's vice president, Asian acquisitions and co-production Bey Logan, explained the company's criteria for selecting projects for its $285m Asian Film Fund, at Pusan's Asian Film Funds Forum over the weekend(Oct 3-5). Launched just over one year ago, the fund aims to back around 30 Asian-themed films over ...
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Fuji TV, Production I.G to produce CG animated feature
Japanese broadcast major Fuji TV and animation house Production I.G have announced plans to co-produce a wholly CG animated feature film. With a working title of Hottarake No Shima: Haruka To Maho No Kagami (Hottarake Island: Haruka And The Magic Mirror), the film will be directed by Shinsuke Sato.The fantasy ...
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Japan to launch film commission as part of policy shift
Speaking at Pusan's Asia-Pacific Film Policy Forum (Oct 4-5), Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) outlined its major initiatives for the future role of the territory in what it has dubbed the 'Asia Content Community'. The presentation, by METI director general of Commerce and Information Policy Bureau Masahiro ...
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Dennings joins Harrelson, Oh in Darius Films' Defendor
Kat Dennings, starring alongside Michael Cera in this weekend's release Nick And Nora's Infinite Playlist, has signed on to play the role of Kat in Defendor opposite Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh.Harrelson will playing Arthur, an ordinary man who believes he has asecret identity as the superhero Defendor. Oh plays ...
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Martinsons' Loss selected as Lithuania's Oscar submission
Maris Martinsons' debut feature Loss from ART&A Film Production has been selected as Lithuania's foreign language Oscar submission.Loss intertwines the stores of six people whose destinies overlap after a tragic accident that occurred more than 20 years earlier.Martinsons co-wrote the screenplay with Raimondas Paskevicius and produced with Linda Krukle and ...
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Seven Arts begins shooting Night Of The Demons remake
Principal photography has commenced in New Orleans on Seven Arts Pictures' horror remake Night Of The Demons.Adam Gierasch wrote the screenplay with his longtime partner Jace Anderson and is directing the story of a Halloween party that turns into a nightmare when a group of teenagers find themselves being stalked ...
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Asian financiers urged to learn from mistakes in the West
The Asian film biz should avoid over-supply and ensure that the interests of distributors and investors are aligned, said panellists at a seminar on Asian film funds at Pusan's Asian Film Market (Oct 3-6). The seminar, co-hosted by Screen International, also examined how film financing has become more difficult due ...
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Che, The Wrestler named centrepiece screenings at AFI FEST
The West Coast premieres of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh's Che have been selected as the AFI FEST 2008's centrepiece screenings.Soderbergh's Che Guevara films starring Benicio Del Toro premiered at Cannes and will screen on November 1 while The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen on November 6 ...
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Fox Walden restructure sees Godsick move back into Fox
Fox Walden chief Jeffrey Godsick is rejoining Fox Filmed Entertainment as executive vice president of marketing and digital content as Fox and Walden Media streamline the joint venture to take greater advantage of Fox's marketing expertise.Both Walden and Fox will continue to develop family films separately with the option of ...
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Singapore Film Commission awards $1.6m to new directors
Nine Singapore directors have each received $170,000 (S$250,000) to direct their first feature-length film under the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund. Funding was granted on the basis that each project has the potential to carry a Singapore-made story to overseas markets.The projects include Japan-Singapore co-production Thunder Boys as ...
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Japanese sellers premiere new titles at Asian Film Market
Japanese majors and independent production companies are kicking off sales of their latest titles at Pusan's Asian Film Market, which launched today. While many Japanese companies reserve full market screenings for the likes of Cannes and the Santa Monica AFM, they believe that Pusan's AFM is an important place to ...
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Japanese anime focus for 2009 Locarno
The world of Japanese anime will be the subject of the retrospective for next year's Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15, 2009) which will also mark the last edition under artistic director Frederic Maire before he becomes head of the Swiss Cinematheque in Lausanne.The Manga Impact retrospective and exhibition will provide ...
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MK2 picks up Patrice Chereau's Prosecution
MK2 has announced the acquisition of Patrice Chereau's latest Prosecution.MK2 will handle international sales on the film which begins shooting in Paris next week.Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jean-Hughes Anglade star in a story of 'crazy love and emotional persecution,' according to MK2. The film is from an original script ...
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Romero begins production on untitled zombie movie in Canada
Production has begun on George A Romero's untitled latest zombie parable in Ontario, Canada.In keeping with all Romero's other films the project is not a sequel but a new adventure informed by the contemporary social and political climate.The action takes place on an isolated island off the North American coast ...
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In Focus: How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.
Journalist Toby Young has a reputation for being an obnoxious cad with few likeable qualities - this is a man who brought a stripper to the office on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day. So reinventing Young for a big-screen version of his memoirs How To Lose Friends & Alienate ...
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In Focus: Bill Plympton's 'Animation Lollapalooza'
The older couple was muttering. 'This isn't funny!' the husband said, shifting in his seat as animator Patrick Smith's Puppet - about a masochist, handcuffed by self-punishing sock puppets - played out on the tiny theatre's screen. What the couple expected was Looney Tunes. What they got was something else.'Animation ...
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In Focus: Criterion puts classics on Blu-ray
The first time Joseph Cotton's war correspondent Holly Martins discovers his presumed dead friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), in postwar Vienna, the moment packs a powerful punch.'Wait until you see the sequence in pristine high-definition video,' says Peter Becker.Carol Reed's 1949 classic The Third Man is one of five titles ...
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In focus: Small cinemas' digital cinema threat
There are few certainties about the disruptive digital future for film, but at least there has been agreement in recent times that change is inevitable, permanent and will sweep the whole industry along with it.Business models would emerge, recalcitrant distributors and exhibitors would take the plunge and our attention would ...
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Screen opinion: The D-cinema dilemma
The word 'mutuality' comes across now as a rather dated concept. It's a term which, for those of a certain age, will conjure up images of bicycles on cobbled streets, ration books and powdered eggs. The self-help mutual funds and building societies it once described have often been gobbled up ...