All articles by Sen-lun Yu – Page 11
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Shanghai International Film Festival: going for growth
Shanghai is expanding market activities in 2007. Sen-lun Yu reports.Celebrating its 10th edition this year, the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), held June 16-24, is gradually expanding its film market and intends to demonstrate China's business potential.Aside from the Jin Jue Competition, the festival's main competitive section, and the Asian ...
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China: cheaper thrills
Faced with a rapidly expanding cinema sector, Chinese producers are looking to end their reliance on martial-arts epics. Sen-lun Yu looks at the new funds aiming to generate an upturn in cheaper commercial homegrown product. Chinese film-making may be best-known internationally for its eye-popping martial-arts films and its lavishly mounted ...
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Teeth Of Love sweeps inaugural Xian film festival
Zhuang Yuxin's Teeth Of Love picked up awards in three categories at the inaugural Xian Qujiang Film Festival for New Talents which wrapped in the Chinese city of Xian last night. The film, which follows the love stories of a Beijing woman through three stages of her life - as ...
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Shrek The Third to get digital-only release in China
As Shrek The Third stays in the top three at the US box office, Chinese state-owned film agencies have confirmed that it won't be released in China until late August, and will then only be given a digital release. According to China Film Digital Cinema Corp, the film will be ...
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China Film, Shougang Group set up digital cinema venture
State-owned entertainment conglomerate China Film Group, Beijing-based state-owned engineering group Shougang Group and Hong Kong-based GDC Technology are setting up a joint venture to construct digital cinemas. The venture, China Film Shougang GDC Technology Digital Cinema Construction Ltd, plans to build 700 digital cinema screens in China by the end ...
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Shanghai film festival unveils competition line-up
The Shanghai International Film Festival (June 16-24) has announced the competition line-up for this year's Jin Jue Awards. Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Go Master, Doghead from Spanish filmmaker Santi Amodeo and Yoji Yamada's Love And Honour are among 16 films competing for the Jin Jue Awards (see full line-up below). The ...
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IDG, China Film to co-finance five-picture slate
IDG China Media Fund has announced that it will cooperate with state-owned China Film Group to invest in five Chinese-language films over two years. China Film president Han Sanping and IDG China Media Fund president Hugo Shong signed a memo of cooperation in Beijing on Thursday. The first film to ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine shared the 1993 Palm d'Or with Jane Campion's The Piano - and he is so far the only Chinese director to win the honour. He was in Competition twice before his win, and twice since. He is now preparing a biopic of Peking Opera master ...
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China's May holiday box office increases by 50%
Box office receipts during China 's May 'Golden Week' holiday period increased by 50%, mostly due to the date-and-date release of Spider-Man 3, according to local distributors and cinema owners. During the May 1-7 holiday period, when the whole of China gets time off from school or work, box office ...
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Bona Culture branches out from Polybona
Li Chiyan, one of the founding members of Polybona Film Distribution along with Yu Dong, has left the company to form his own distribution outfit, Bona Culture. The new company plans to distribute around ten films a year of which eight will be Chinese-language and two will be foreign films ...
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Pirates 3 gets greenlight for Chinese release
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End has been approved by Chinese censors and can be released mid-June at the earliest, according to state-owned distributor Huaxia Film Distribution and cinema owners from Beijing and Shanghai. The exact release date of the third film in the Pirates franchise is yet to ...
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai to replace Chow in Red Cliff
Tony Leung Chiu-wai will replace Chow Yun-fat in the role of Zhou Yu in John Woo's Red Cliff, producer Terence Chang and the film's investor Chengtian Entertainment confirmed this evening. Leung was previously attached to the project in the role of Zhuge Liang, but quit in March due to scheduling ...
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Shanghai film festival unveils anti-piracy project
The Shanghai International Film Festival has launched an anti-piracy short film project for its upcoming tenth edition (June 16-24). The first in a series of ten anti-piracy-themed short films will be directed by Feng Xiaogang and will premiere at SIFF's opening ceremony on June 16. At a press conference held ...
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Chinese officials deny that quotas encourage piracy
Chinese trade officials have rejected a complaint by the US to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that import restrictions on foreign movies, music and books are an obstacle to the country's crackdown on rampant piracy. Wang Ziqiang, spokesperson for National Copyright Administration, said yesterday that the accusation that market access ...
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Chow Yun-fat climbs down from Woo's Red Cliff
Three days after shooting started, Chinese star Chow Yun-fat has dropped out of John Woo's $70m epic drama Red Cliff. According to producer Terence Chang, the reason for the sudden withdrawal was that completion bond company CineFinance would not approve the terms raised by Chow. It is the second time ...
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Former Polybona exec launches Life Pictures
Former Polybona Film Distribution executive Guan Yadi and commercials director Li Weiran have launched a new production company, Life Pictures, which aims to produce three features over the next year. The three projects in development include In Your Face - 3.05 meters, a coming-of-age story about basketball and Beijing's young ...
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China Film Group unveils new plans to support young film-makers
Chinese government-owned China Film Group announced to introduce 'young filmmaker developing project' and 'author film series' to develop young filmmakers and mid-budget filmmaking, as a new direction of the group's film production plan in 2007, according to China Film president Han Sanping. While the group is involved in big-budget co-productions ...
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Shanghai Film Group takes over two cinemas from WBIC
Warner Bros International Cinemas (WBIC), the international cinema division of Warner Bros, and Chinese government-owned Shanghai Film Group (SFG), announced today that SFG will take over two WBIC Cinemas in Shanghai and Nanjing. Both cinemas were joint projects of WBIC and SFG. Before today's deal, WBIC with its partner SZITIC ...
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Yu establishes Ming Yue Tang to develop Chinese co-productions
Hong Kong-based production house October Films has established a Beijing-based company, Ming Yue Tang Film and TV Cultural Ltd, to develop Chinese-language co-productions between China, Hong Kong and Korea. Daniel Yu, former COO of Andy Lau's Focus Films, will be in charge of developing the company's first four projects. Yu ...
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CR Land, Shanghai Film Group invest in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has announced that he is set to direct a film project, tentatively titled 24 City, in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. The project, which includes a feature film and documentary, will be jointly financed by Shanghai Film Group, Jia's Xstream Pictures and real estate ...