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China - Onward and upward
Industry experts in China believe the country's 2007 box office could break the $400m (rmb3bn) milestone as the number of cinemas and admissions continues to grow.According to monthly statistics from the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft), total box office for the first half ...
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China 2007 box office expected to reach $400m
As the number of cinemas and admissions continues to grow, China's 2007 boxoffice is expected to break the $400m (RMB3bn) milestone, industry players have estimated. According to monthly statistics from the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), total box office for the first half ...
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Red's army on the march
It is a scorching summer day of around 36C at a tank base three hours outside Beijing. More than 1,000 actors and extras wearing ancient armour are in the midst of battle. As flags fly and war drums pound, Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-wai dashes among the crowds, waving ...
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Simon West starts shoot for $51m Purple Mountain in Nanjing
Purple Mountain, a feature film about the Nanjing massacre during WWII, started shooting yesterday in Nanjing's Pukou train station with Con Air director Simon West working off a script by Jeffrey Caine, who previously adapted The Constant Gardener. The project is budgeted at $51m (RMB400m), co-produced by Jiangsu Province Cultural ...
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UK financier to set up joint venture with Shanghai Film Group
Chinese state-owned Shanghai Film Group Corporation (SFGC) is setting up a joint venture with UK-based finance house Nations Trust to invest in film production, post-production and an animation production centre, SFGC president Ren Zhonglun confirmed today. The two sides had quietly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in February to ...
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Chen's Mei Lanfang starts shooting in Beijing
Chinese director Chen Kaige announced the start of production on his biopic of Peking opera singer Mei Lanfang in Beijing yesterday. The actual shooting started last Saturday (July 14) in Beijing Film Studio. Huayi Brothers Pictures came on board as one of the backers just last week, joining the original ...
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Chengtian starts production on Wang's Dangerous Game
Beijing-based Chengtian Entertainment has started shooting its first in-house production, Wang Guangli's The Dangerous Game, which cranked up yesterday (July 16) in the city of Hangzhou in South-East China. Co-financed by Hong Kong 's Mei Ah Entertainment, the contemporary black comedy follows a group of inter-connected Chinese yuppies who indulge ...
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Transformers has record-breaking opening in China
Transformers has set a new opening day record for an imported film in China, taking in $2.95m (RMB22.4m) on July 11. Previously, the record was set by Spiderman 3 which took $2.34m on its opening day. Beijing 's multiplexes were packed from early morning on Wednesday for the 12am premiere ...
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A Beijing spring
New cinemas and foreign films are the driving force behind recent Chinese growth, says Sen-Lun Yu. March and April are usually slow months at the Chinese box office, when small to mid-sized films are released in batches before the blockbusters are rolled out during the May national holidays.But this year, ...
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Shanghai film festhands top prize to Meletzky's Plan
German feature According To The Plan, directed by Franziska Meletzky, was awarded best film at the Jin Jue Awards - the top honours of the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Sunday night. The seven-person jury, headed by Chen Kaige and Fernando Trueba, said that 'the truth of life has ...
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China Film boards Lu Chuan's Nanking! Nanking!
Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) announced five separate deals and joint ventures at the Shanghai International Film Festival on Saturday (June 23). CFGC and Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation have officially boarded Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan's historical drama Nanking ! Nanking ! as co-financiers alongside Beijing-based Stellar Megamedia. Hong Kong ...
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CFCC, UniJapan sign co-production agreement
China Film Co-production Corp (CFCC) and Japanese film promotion body UniJapan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on film collaboration at the Shanghai International Film Festival on Friday (June 22) The two sides also announced the shooting of a Sino-Japanese period drama entitled Zen. The seven-point MoU is seen as ...
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CFCC, Ironpond launch China co-production web-site
Los Angeles and Beijing-based production entity Ironpond has set up a web-site for China Film Co-production Corp (CFCC) that aims to help overseas producers access information about co-producing films with China. The site, www.chinacoproduction.com, is managed by Ironpond with CFCC overseeing the content. It has both English and Chinese-language versions ...
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Korea's CJ, China Film sign MoU for co-production
Korea's CJ Entertainment and state-owned China Film Group Corp signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Shanghai Film Festival today to become strategic partners on film co-productions. According to CJ Entertainment president Kim Joo-sung, the partnership involves the production of both Chinese and Korean-language films to be set in ...
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Shanghai film market has slow first edition
Shanghai International Film Festival's (SIFF) film market wrapped yesterday with only a few sales concluded. And although it could have potential, most buyers at the three-day event felt there was a lot to be improved. By the time that festival workers began to dismantle the booths, there were only two ...
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Huayi Brothers set to shoot Zhou Xun romantic drama
Chinese producer-distributor Huayi Brothers Films is lining up a new project from up-and-coming film-maker Cao Baoping, Something About Limi, which is set to star Zhou Xun and Taiwanese TV drama idol Vic Chou. The $1.3m (RMB10m) romantic drama with suspense elements is scheduled to start shooting in July. It tells ...
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Beijing Time Antaeus unveils debut three-picture slate
Chinese cinema operator Time Antaeus Group, which is entering film production, unveiled its production arm, Beijing Time Entertainment International, and its debut three-picture slate at the on-going Shanghai International Film Festival. Action comedy Playboy Cops, which was previously announced at Cannes as a co-production with Hong Kong BIG Media Group, ...
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Forbidden Kingdom set for release during Beijing Olympics
Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first on-screen collaboration, Forbidden Kingdom, is scheduled to wrap at the end of August and is aiming for a summer 2008 release, according to the film's producer Casey Silver. As the date coincides with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Silver says he hopes the film ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival opens with Eye In The Sky
International stars including Sharon Stone, Michelle Rodriguez and Maggie Cheung graced the red carpet at the opening of the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival on Saturday night (June 16), which kicked off with a screening of Hong Kong action thriller Eye In The Sky. The director and star of the ...
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China's summer blackout begins following Pirates release
China's 'national film protection month' or so-called summer blackout on foreign films will take place from June 13 to July 13, local cinema owners confirmed this week. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End , which opens in China on June 13, will be the last foreign film opening this ...