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Huayi's The Assembly adds new mainland China funding partners
Shanghai Film Group, Beijing New Film Group and Zhejiang Film and TV Group announced that they will partner with Huayi Brothers to invest in Feng Xiaogang's $10m war movie The Assembly. The three groups signed the partnership deal Monday in Beijing. Together with Huayi Brothers, the four mainland Chinese investors ...
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Xian city launches film festival and fund
The Xian City Cultural Bureau and Xian-based Qujiang Entertainment Group have announced the launch of the Xian Film Festival for New Talent, which will take place in the ancient Chinese capital in May. The two organisers also announced a film fund of $12.9m (RMB100m) to support young filmmakers, which will ...
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China's Megajoy kicks off production arm with gourmand drama
Shanghai-based Megajoy Group, formerly known as Megadia Entertainment, has expanded its scope to film production and set up a production wing in Beijing.The first feature film in 2007 slate is suspense drama Shuang Shi Ji, which began shooting last week in Chongqing city of west China.Starring Hong Kong actor Francis ...
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New Chinese buyers - Slice of the action
Until recently, international sales companies were showing little interest in China. The market's rampant piracy and censorship were major turn-offs, as was the fact that unless a film is selected as one of China's 20 annual revenue-sharing imports, it can technically only be sold for a flat fee to state-owned ...
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China Film Group forms partnership with Taiwan's Era
Chinese state-owned conglomerate China Film Group and Hong Kong-based Era Information and Entertainment unveiled a long-term strategic partnership at a press conference today in Beijing. The two companies plan to co-produce 10 Chinese-language feature films over the next three years. It is understood that the two companies will set up ...
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Huayi Brothers to co-produce Relativity's King Of Kung-fu
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has boarded the $70m action drama, previously known as the untitled J&J Project due to the dual casting of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, as local investor and co-producer. Huayi Brothers has sent the project, under the tentative title King Of Kung-fu, to the Film Bureau of ...
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China Film Group takes over Warner Bros multiplexes
China Film Group has confirmed that it's buying out three multiplexes that are jointly owned by Warner Bros International Cinemas (WBIC) and China 's SZITIC Commercial Property Co (SZITIC). Following the completion of the equity transfer agreement, China Film will become the sole owner of the three cinemas which are ...
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US studios set to do battle over Chinese New Year
Five US films will be slugging it out at the Chinese box office during the upcoming Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) holiday season, a lucrative box office period that until a few years ago was reserved for local productions. The five foreign contenders are Sony's Casino Royale, which opened last ...
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Films Distribution picks up Lost In Beijing
France's Films Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Chinese female director Li Yu's Lost In Beijing (Pingguo), produced by Fang Li's Laurel Films, which has been selected for competition at this year's Berlin film festival. The film is currently in post-production and is scheduled to be submitted to Chinese censors ...
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US studios enjoy 41% box office increase in China
The US studios had a relatively good year in China in 2006, during which the 20 revenue-sharing films released in the country grossed $108.75m (RMB850m), an increase of 41% on the previous year. China 's total box office was $335.5m (RMB2.62bn) last year (see Screendaily, Jan 8) which gives the ...
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Chinese box office up by 30% in 2006
China's box office continued to grow in 2006 with combined grosses reaching $335.5m (RMB2.62bn), an increase of 30% on takings of $256m (RMB2bn) in 2005, according to figures released by the Film Bureau under the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT).The Film Bureau also announced that China's annual ...
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Chan launches China talent search, production outfit
Hong Kong star Jackie Chan is planning to unearth the nextgeneration of action stars through a TV talent contest, and is establishing a Beijing-basedproduction company to produce vehicles in which they can perform. The star spoke of his planswhile visiting China recently during a break in the filming of Rush ...
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Golden Flower has record-breaking opening...
Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower grossed$12.3m (RMB96m) on its four-day opening weekend in mainland China, breaking the record for the opening of a domesticfilm. The film opened on Thursday,Dec 14 on 826 prints, jointly distributed by Hong Kong-based Edko Films, ChinaFilm Group and Beijing New Picture Films.The number ...
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Golden Flower triggers dispute in mainland China
Chinese distributor Beijing PolybonaFilm Distribution has issued an open letter accusing the local distributors of Curse Of The Golden Flower ofmonopolising China's digital cinema chains. The company claims that analleged exclusive screening agreement to screen Golden Flower for one month has blocked other domestic films frombeing released on the country's ...
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CineAsia wraps with confirmation of move to Macau
After two years in Beijing, exhibition trade show and conference CineAsia willmove to Macau, a Special Administrative Region in South China, in 2007. Robert Sunshine, vice president of VNUFilm Exposition Group, announced the move at the closing ceremony of thisyear's conference on Thursday in Beijing.Sunshine added that the new venue ...
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China's digital loop stymied by lack of US product
Chinese cinema proprietorsspoke of the difficulty of securing enough product to make the expansion ofdigital cinema a profitable business, on the first day of the CineAsia conventionand trade show in Beijing. China's State Administrationof Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has recently reiterated its goal to rollout a nationwide network of ...
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China's production volume up by 27% in 2006
Tong Gang, director of China's Film Bureau, has announced that China produced 330 films in 2006, an increase of 27% fromthe 260 produced the previous year. Speaking at the opening ofthe CineAsia conference which is being held for the second time in Beijing, Tong added that two thirds of these ...
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Chan's $40m Ci Ma starts shooting in Beijing
Andre Morgan and Peter Ho-sunChan, who together run production house Morgan Chan Films, unveiled their$40m martial arts period drama Ci Ma (working title) today in Beijing.The Hong Kong-China co-productionis directed by Chan and features a stellar cast headed by Jet Li, Andy Lau andTakeshi Kaneshiro. Principal photography has just started ...
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Fox signs DVD deal with Chinese partner
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) has set up an exclusive licensing partnership with China's Guangzhou-based video distributor Zoke Culture Group (Zoke). Zoke will distribute TCFHE's recent theatrical releases as well as titles from the studio's film library in its 20,000 retail outlets in major cities across China. ...
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WBIC withdraws from Chinese cinema investments
Warner Bros InternationalCinemas (WBIC) has decided to stop investing in the Chinese cinema market dueto a tightened policy on foreign investment, the company said in a statement inShanghai today. However, Warner Bros' otherinvestments in China, including local-language production and home video, will not beaffected the statement said.The main reason for ...