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TATSUYA FUJIWARA (JAPAN)
In the final shot of director Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, a teenage boy who was not supposed to survive the government's horrifically staged game of death runs off into an uncertain future. Actor Tatsuya Fujiwara - who played 'Boy #15' - has a much surer future ahead of him.Born in ...
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JOHN CHO (US)
Korean-American star John Cho is perhaps best known for his performances in the American Pie series or the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.Cho is interested in characters who break the stereotypical Asian-American mould. 'I don't want to make films that are just about feeling Asian-American,' he ...
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CHINA
The Chinese talent industry is a supernova in the making - but is still in its infancy. SEN-LUN YU explores the emergence of the territory's star system.Film talent management is a very recent development in China. Up until three years ago, star managers and companies mostly concentrated on TV, and ...
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TERRITORIES
What makes a star - and how much value do they have' Screen correspondents explore the talent systems across Asian territories, and the companies that discover and nurture tomorrow's starsChinaHong KongJapanJoreaThe PhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailand
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SPOTLIGHT ON ASIA
Asian talent steps into the limelight at Star Summit Asia, the event that recognises and promotes the regional actors and actresses who are the key to the international success of Asia's film industryJust as in other global film industries, local stars are the fuel that keeps the Asian film industry ...
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SEI ASHINA (JAPAN)
On the international poster for the $26m film Silk, the beautiful face of a Japanese woman looms large above the image of established stars Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt. This is the striking visage of Sei Ashina. She was cast from more than 800 hopefuls for the role of a ...
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LIM SOO-JUNG (KOREA)
Although Lim Soo-jung is most easily cast as a dewy ingenue, she is also capable of terror and grit - as seen in horror film A Tale Of Two Sisters - and brittleness, having portrayed a mentally disturbed girl in Park Chan-wook's recent I'm A Cyborg But That's OK. In ...
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Biblob and Antoniou join foreign-language film competitors
Bangladesh has selected Golam Rabbany Biblob's directorial debut On The Wings Of Dreams, while Greece has picked Angeliki Antoniou's Eduart for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the forthcoming 80th Academy Awards. Both films are being handled internationally by the Berlin-based sales agent MDC International who is also representing ...
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Cancun festival plans international film market for 2008
The new Cancun Riviera Maya International Film Festival is planning to expand next year to include an international market.The event debuts on Nov 5, opening with Mexican film Nonna's Trip and including titles from the US, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Latin America. But there are already plans for ...
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Films from Attenborough, Freedman and Ruzowitzky open Ghent
The 34th edition of the Ghent International Film Festival is to feature three opening films on October 9.They are:The European premiere of Richard Attenborough's Closing the RingStefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher) Paul Freedman's Sand And SorrowClosing the Ring, starring Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell and Mischa Barton, opens ...
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Vaines leaves TWC for LA job at King's GK Films
UK film veteran Colin Vaines has joined Graham King's GK Films as co-president of production, effective Oct 1. He arrives from The Weinstein Company (TWC) where he was executive vice president of European production.Reporting directly to King, he will work alongside Gail Lyon, the company's other co-president of production, in ...
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Virgo's Poor Boy's Game wins major prizes at Atlantic Film Festival
Clement Virgo's boxing drama Poor Boy's Game won two major prizes as the 27th Atlantic Film Festival wrapped yesterday. The Halifax-set picture was presented with the Best Atlantic Feature prize while Virgo and co-screenwriter Chaz Thorne won the Michael Weir Award for Best Original Screenplay. Thorne too was a double-winner. ...
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Strategic Partners projects include Indigenes writer's debut
At the recent Strategic Partners co-production market in Canada, producers revealed a number of new projects currently in the works. In total almost 200 industry figures from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK were given the chance to pitch their projects to fellow ...
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NEW CINEMA NETWORK INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
The international projects being showcased by New Cinema Network have a different mission: to link the Rome event with similar initiatives around the world throughout the year at festivals such as Sundance, Berlin and Rotterdam.Click on the links below to see projects.CHANTAL AKERMAN - What Happens Next'VIMUKTHI JAYASUNDARA - The ...
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THE BUSINESS STREET
As an additional boost to film-makers, this year Rome is combining its two strongest industry initiatives. New Cinema Network and the more informal The Business Street market are overlapping by one day so buyers on hand for the market can meet film-makers participating in the New Cinema Network. 'Last year ...
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AAM works on digital release of Queen Rock Montreal
Arts Alliance Media is working with Eagle Rock Entertainment and Empire Cinemas to digitally release concert film Queen Rock Montreal in cinemas across the UK. The project was shot in November 1981 and has only been seen on the big screen at its Cannes debut in 1984. The film has ...
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France and German groups make joint declaration for digital cinema
France's CNC and Germany's FFA have signed a joint declaration with regard to the evolution of digital projection and are calling on their European neighbours to join them in certain initiatives to aide in a coherent digital rollout. Digital projection in Europe, say the CNC and the FFA, must operate ...
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Keith Potter leaves Dan Films for Film Agency For Wales
Keith Potter has joined the Film Agency for Wales as its head of talent.Potter had been in charge of development for London-based production company Dan Films, working on Christopher Smith's Triangle, Tom Rob Smith's Put Together, and Jeff Noon's Creeping Zero.He is also a member of the advisory board of ...
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Atopia picks up Gauder's The District! for North America
Montreal-based Atopia Distribution has acquired North America rights to Aron Gauder's animated musical The District! (Nyocker!). The Hungarian film made its North American premiere at Toronto in 2006 and went on to win 13 prizes across a swath of international film festivals. The social comedy tells the story of a ...
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Huayi Brothers to co-produce Gallenberger's John Rabe
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers Pictures is to co-produce and handle distribution in China for Florian Gallenberger's second feature film John Rabe, which will begin principal photography in Shanghai and at original locations in Nanking from Oct 18 to February 2008. Previously known as John Rabe - The Good Man of Nanking, ...