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Studios clear decks ready for autumn schedule
The weekend looks to be a slow one as the distributors churn through the remnants of summer and prepare their autumn line-ups. Universal/UPI's The Bourne Ultimatum has led the way for the last few weekends and may stay top in the absence of any obvious strong challenge. The ...
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CJ, China Film to co-produce Cheung's Tangka
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment has announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China 's largest film company, China Film Group, to co-produce Tibet-set drama Tangka. The film will be directed by Jacob Cheung who most recently directed pan-Asian co-production A Battle Of Wits , starring Andy ...
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PUSAN'S AFM STAKES ITS CLAIM
Now in its second year as a fully fledged market, Pusan's Asian Film Market (October 8-11) is still relatively small and takes place at one of the busiest times of the year - but is already considered a key event by many international buyers and sellers.In its first edition last ...
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Co-production PRO & Star Summit Asia
The Asian Film Market is striving to be a full-service market and already encompasses the contents market, projects market PPP and locations and production services convention Bifcom.Last year, the market also launched talent showcase Star Summit Asia, which aims to stimulate co-productions by showcasing Asian talent, and this year is ...
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ASIAN FILM MARKET BUZZ
THAILANDThailand's Mono Film (which sold the remake rights for romantic drama Me ... Myself to Korea's K&Entertainment earlier this year) is showing the latest footage of Fighting Beat (Pahuyut) - a martial-arts drama set on Phi Phi Island and directed by Piti Jaturaphat - and Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn's romantic comedy Gig ...
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Q&A WITH FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTOR LEE YONG KWAN
JEAN NOH, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL: You are one of PIFF's founding members. How did it all start'It all started in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was a professor at Kyung-sung University in Busan. I used to get together on the beaches of Gwang-an-li after classes with a group ...
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Editorial - The shock of the new
It's tempting to see digital cinema as a manana technology - perpetually on the horizon but never getting any nearer. The effect is magnified if you count out your life in d-cinema conferences, which have often made a virtue of heated arguments about bafflingly esoteric points. As Arts Alliance Media ...
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THE FACE OF PUSAN
One of the most beloved and colourful figures in the South Korean industry, Kim Dong-ho can take some of the credit for putting Korean cinema on the international map. As founding director of the Pusan International Film Festival in 1996, now Asia's biggest industry event, it is Kim who shored ...
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PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
The Pusan International Film Festival (Piff), Asia's most dynamic cinema showcase, is growing up fast. Celebrating its 12th edition this year, it is expanding broadly with new events and initiatives, while also increasing the premieres in its main sections. A record 92 films (out of 275 films from 64 countries) ...
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PUSAN PROGRAMMER PICKS
LEE SANG-YONG, KOREAN CINEMA PROGRAMMERWho's That Knocking At My Door' Dir: Yang Hea-hoonFeature debut from the director of Cannes shorts competitor My Dear Rosetta, this film is 'a gem' that deals with violence and growing pains.Hello, Stranger (world premiere) Dir: Kim Dong-hyunA glimpse behind the veil of South Korean society, ...
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Walden and Kerner team up for basketball feature
Walden Media and Jordan Kerner's Kerner Entertainment Company are teaming up on the feature adaptation of sports columnist Adrian Wojnarowski's 2005 book The Miracle Of St Anthony. The book explores a year of the life of Bob Hurley Sr, one of America's most successful and prolific high-school basketball coaches ...
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Screenwriters selected for second French Autumn Stories season
The second edition of Autumn Stories is set to kick off October 1 at the Abbaye de Royaumont, north of Paris. The scheme, created by the Franco-American Cultural Funds and the Ile de France Film Commission, invites four American screenwriters to finalise their feature projects over a six-week period. ...
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Cotillard to receive Palm Springs breakthrough award
Marion Cotillard will receive the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Breakthrough Performance Award for her performance in La Vie En Rose. Cotillard, the first honoree to be unveiled for the 2008 festival, will be invited to collect her trophy at the Awards Gala on Jan 5 ...
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Universal Japan strikes DVD distribution deal with Geneon
Universal Pictures Japan and Geneon Entertainment have created a home entertainment distribution partnership. Geneon will distribute Universal's new release titles on DVD, with the first release being The Bourne Ultimatum in March 2008.However, Universal Pictures Japan, led by MD Ghen Akiyama, will continue to distribute all Universal catalogue and television ...
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Danish smash Olsen Gang to get CGI treatment in new feature
Denmark's Olsen Gang (Olsenbanden) - the most successful franchise in the country's film history - will be resuscitated in a new CGI feature. Danish major Nordisk Film, which produced the 14 original Olsen Gang films between 1968-1981 and in 1998, has received development support from the Danish Film Institute for ...
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LFF plans industry talks including one-day digital seminar
The London Film Festival is planning several special industry seminars for this year's festival. The Ateliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE) and the French Institute, with support from Skillset, the UK Film Council and the MEDIA Plus Programme will work with the LFF to host the seminar Creative Producer - A ...
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Rome's second run offers 19 world premieres and star power
Rome Film Fest (Oct 18-27) has announced the line up for its second edition (full list here), reinforcing its mission to be a people's 'festa' (the Italian word for party) while showing increased capability to attract top talent in a line up that focuses on European premieres as it capitalises ...
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Reykjavik opens with world premiere of Sigur Ros - Heima
The fourth Reykjavik International Film Festival will open tonight with the world premiere of Denni Karlsson's Sigur Ros - Heima, a film about the internationally successful Icelandic music group Sigur Ros. Guests of the festival will include Peter Greenaway, who will receive the festival's honorary award for film directing; Finnish ...
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Poland chooses Andrzej Wajda's Katyn as Oscar contender
A Culture Ministry selection committee featuring Polish filmmakers Janusz Majewski, Jan Kaczmarek and Slavomir Fabicki made a unanimous decision in selecting Andrzej Wajda's film Katyn from among 16 contenders for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Katyn explores the events leading up to the Katyn massacre ...
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San Sebastian's Films In Progress champions Gasolina
In San Sebastian 's Films In Progress section, Guatemalan youth drama Gasolina by Julio Hernandez Cordon has won three of the five awards, including the top industry prize. Films in Progress provides completion funding for projects from rising Latin American talents hoping to make a name for themselves on the ...