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Father wins China's first mobile phone movie awards
The inaugural Mobile PhoneMovie Awards - organised by Beijing-based Zonbo Media, Xian city government andXian Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone - closed yesterday in China's Xian city with eight awards given out to youngshort filmmakers across the country.Father,directed by Qin Xiaopeng, took the top prize, the best film award, winning$1,265 (RMB10,000).Another ...
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Pretty Pictures buys North Korean hit Schoolgirl's Diary
French distributor PrettyPictures has bought North Korean hit TheSchoolgirl's Diary, marking the first commercial deal for a North Koreanfilm to a Western country in recent decades.James Velaise, president ofPretty Pictures, attended the Pyongyang International Film Festival inSeptember where The Schoolgirl's Diary,a local hit with 8 million admissions, was screened. Negotiations ...
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SPRI and BVI team for distribution joint venture in Korea
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) and Buena Vista International(BVI) have formed a joint venture to distribute their pictures and localproduct in South Korea, effective Nov 30.The set-up allows the companies to streamline their operations inone office, and reflects similar arrangements between SPRI and BVI in Mexico,Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Switzerland, ...
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VOD service Eurocinema signs to handle First Run catalogue
US video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive dealwith independent film distributor First Run Features to handle First Run'scatalogue of titles.Premiere First Run Features titles launching on Eurocinema inDecember include Claude Chabrol's Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Ludivine Sagnier's La Petite Lili, Dani Levy's Go For Zucker, and Ole Christian Madsen's ...
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Hounsou to star in urban drama The Trunk
Djimon Hounsou will star in urban drama The Trunk for the trio of Los Angeles-basedcompanies Melee Entertainment, White, and Bluvoma Inc.Brian White, Boris Kodjoe, and Thomas Krestchmann are alsoattached to the story of an inner city musical prodigy on the cusp of successwho discovers some of his closest friends will ...
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PUSAN: Pang's Ibrahim takes top prize at PPP
The Pang Ho Cheung project, One Day Of Ibrahim, picked up the topprize at this year's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) - the $20,000 Busan Awardpresented by the Metropolitan City of Busan. The $2.2m project, about ayoung Kenyan boy's journey to find water, is set to be produced by the Hong ...
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PUSAN: Cineclick Asia sells horror duo to Wild Side
On the third day of theAsian Film Market, Cineclick Asia has announced a raft of sales to France's Wild Side Films and Thailand's J-bics.Wild Side has picked upFrench-speaking rights to upcoming horror film Hanzel And Gretel to be directed by Yim Pil-sung (Antarctic Journal). The film hypothesises whathappens to the ...
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PUSAN: Indonesia's Queen Films on buying spree
Indonesia's Queen Films, the distribution arm of start-upexhibitor Blitz Cinemas, has snapped up four Korean titles from iHQ, as well asGhost Game from Hong Kong's Golden Network Asia.Queen Films' Ananda Siregarsigned with iHQ's head of international sales Catherine Park for KimYoung-joon's Gangster High; Thursday's Child, a melodrama starringKim Sun-ah; Taewon ...
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PUSAN: Taiwan's Three Dots unveils DNA cast
Taiwanese actors Terri Kwanand Eddie Peng and Hong Kong's Peter Ho are set to star in Three DotsEntertainment's My DNA Says I Love You,written and to be directed by Robin Lee. The high-concept romanticcomedy tells the story of two single girls who work in a biotech company anddecide to alter ...
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BBC Worldwide on board for African elephant feature
Following on its first twofeatures Deep Blue and earth, BBC Worldwide is planning is third wildlife feature, Distant Thunder. BBC has comeon board as a co-producer with independent film-makers Mark Deeble and VictoriaStone. Distant Thunder will be about the previously unseen emotional intelligence of theAfrican elephant.BBC Worldwide's previous features were ...
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Arista, BBC and Capitol launch minority writing scheme
Arista, BBC Films andCapitol Films Production will launch the minority screenwriting programmeScribes 2 with a networking event on Oct 24. The scheme, for black and minority ethnic UKscreenwriters, is backed by the UK Film Council and Film London. Eight selected participants will go through an eight-month projectdevelopment programme and will ...
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Fourteen short films nominated for Prix UIP
TheEuropean Film Academy and UIP have announcedthe short film nominees for the 2006 European Film Awards. Thenominees are selected at 14 film festivals across Europe and the 1,700 members ofthe European Film Academy now vote for the winner.Thisyear's nominees are: Never Like The First Time!(Aldrig Som Forsta Gangen!) by Jonas ...
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Rome Fest scales back activities after local train crash
Organisersof the Rome Film Fest suspended all activities beyond screenings and pressconferences Tuesday morning when two Rome underground trainscollided causing the death of at least one person.Immediatereports from Italian news agency ANSA confirmed two deaths and two hundredinjuries of which six are critical. Final injury counts are not yetdiscernable.Thecrash took ...
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Redgrave, Staunton on board for next Binchy adaptation
Irish producer Noel Pearson, an Academy Award nominee for MyLeft Foot, willfollow his recent Maeve Binchy adaptation, Tara Road, with How About You' based on a Binchy short story. Adapted by Jean Pasley and directed by Anthony Byrne, HowAbout You' is acomic tale about a clash between the generations which ...
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Chris Davis International bringing Ten Inch Hero to AFM
Brave New Films has completed principal photography on DavidMackay's ensemble drama Ten Inch Hero, which Chris Davis International is representing forinternational sales.Elisabeth Harnois, Clea DuVall, and Sean Patrick Flanery are amongthe cast in the story of a young woman searching for her daughter who winds upworking in a quirky sandwich ...
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Odyssey pacts with Starz on CG comedy Sheepish
UK-based Odyssey Entertainment will handle international sales anddistribution on Starz Animation's $45m CG family animated comedy Sheepish.Starz Animation is a division of Starz Media, the newly configuredmedia company run by John Malone's Liberty Media Corporation and based aroundits Starz US pay-TV network. Starz recently bought IDT Entertainment and indoing so ...
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PUSAN: GTH scores string of sales on Alone
Thailand's GMM Tai Hub (GTH) has scored further deals on Alone, the long-awaited follow-up toThai writer-directors Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun's horror hit Shutter. The $2.5m project, firstunveiled at last year's Pusan,has been sold to Lark Films for Hong Kong, GoldenScreen Cinemas for Malaysia and Downtown Filmes for Brazil. Wild ...
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PUSAN: Avex boards Apple, Chen Kaige project
Following its investment in Beijing-basedChengtian Entertainment, Japan's Avex is making a push into Chinese production by co-financingtwo of the company's upcoming productions - Li Yu's Apple and a biopic to be directed by Chen Kaige.Chen, who most recentlydirected big-budget fantasy epic ThePromise, is developing a film based on the life ...
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Nikkatsu rolls out library through VoD service
Nikkatsu, one of Japan's oldest film studios, has announced that it willoffer films from its vast library as video-on-demand content through parent companyIndex Corp's "Miranca" VoD and IPTV service.The first 23 titles goonline today (Oct 16) and include classic films starring some of Japan's mostenduring cinema icons, including the late ...
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PUSAN: Taiwan's Serenity signs up for Pain
Serenity EntertainmentInternational has acquired Taiwanese rights to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Confession Of Pain from Hong Kong's Media Asia. The company, which has beenramping up Chinese-language acquisitions since its launch in mid-2005, willrelease the film as part of a pan-Asian roll-out in mid-December. Since the beginning of 2006,Serenity has ...