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Slumdog Millionaire has strong opening weekend in China
Slumdog Millionaire grossed $2.93m (RMB20m) during its first four days on release in mainland China, which marks the biggest opening for a non-US foreign filmfor the past ten years.The film was released on Thursday, March 26 with 400 film prints and more than 200 digital screens across major Chinese cities. ...
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Boyle to chair Shanghai film festival jury
The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced that Danny Boyle will chair the international jury at the upcoming 12th edition of the festival (June 13-21). Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire had its China premiere in Beijing yesterday (March 26) and the film is opening on more than 1,000 screens this weekend. ...
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Salon's pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2
Companies under Hong Kong’s Salon Films’ pan-Asia alliance have announced new production projects including three projects from Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.Producer Hsu Li-kong and his Zoom Hunt International is preparing the sequel to Ang Lee’s 1994 classic Eat Drink Man Woman, tentatively titled Eat Drink Man Woman II, a project ...
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Dayyan Eng enlists Daniel Wu, Gong Beibi for Inseparable
Chinese American filmmaker Dayyan Eng (Waiting Alone) is to produce and direct a black-comedy from his own script titledInseparable. Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu (Shinjuku Incident) and Chinese actress Gong Beibi (Call For Love, Waiting Alone) are heading the cast.The project is being planned as a mid-budget film under Chinese ...
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Producer Terence Chang embarks on romantic comedy Dirt Rich
Producer Terence Chang has packaged romantic comedy Dirt Rich In Shanghai with Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertainment, Sil-Metropol Organization and Taiwan’s Tosoa Entertainment for an April start date.Taipei-based filmmaker Peter Lee (The Candidate) will direct the $2m film, which tells about a nouveau riche man determined to transform his down-to-earth ...
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Painted Skin, Ip Man, Pleasant Goat to get new instalments
New instalments of three Chinese-language blockbusters in 2008 - Painted Skin, Ip Man and Pleasant Goat - will go into production later in 2009, according to backers of the three films.Two investors in 2008 hit Painted Skin will reteam to produce the second film adapted from the 18th century book ...
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Zhang Yimou lines up black comedy with Zhao Bensan
The Olympic Games now behind him, Zhang Yimou is preparing to shoot a black comedy with comedians Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang.Zhang has just returned from visiting Zhao and his theater troupe in Shenyang City of Northeastern China. Chinese media reported that it was a casting trip for his new ...
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China Film Group to import Slumdog Millionaire
China's state-own film importer China Film Group has confirmed that it will import Academy Award-winner and world-wide hit Slumdog Millionaire to the mainland China market. The release date is scheduled for March 26. The film's director Danny Boyle will be attending itsBeijing premiere next week, according to a source at ...
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Beijing-based ACE lines up thriller, Japan co-production
Beijing-based distributor-turned-producer ACE Film Studio has announced that it is lining up thriller Midnight Taxi and China-Japan co-production Dream Wall (working title). Adapted from Xu Zi's hit online novel of the same name, Midnight Taxi tells the true story of a Beijing-based taxi driver's encounter with a mysterious woman. Scriptwriter ...
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Chow Yun-fat to star in Dadi Century's Confucius biopic
Beijing-based Dadi Century Film has confirmed that Chow Yun-fat will star in its upcoming biopic Confucius, in which he will portray the great Chinese philosopher and sage. Chen Daoming (Hero) will portray Lao Zi, another Chinese philosopher and the founder of Taoism, who gave Confucius advice on history and the ...
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Back to the mainland: China opens up to co-productions
Shooting permits are being issued again in China after a difficult 2008. Between October 2008 and January 2009, the Film Bureau approved 17 projects to shoot in China. Only eight received permits between June and September last year.Among the Asian projects are Cinema Popular's Dark October, which will start shooting ...
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Chinese film boom - market manipulation or audience shift'
In Olympic year in 2008, the Chinese government placed subtle restrictions on the number and nature of foreign films that could be released in the territory. This year, the 60th anniversary of the creation of the People's Republic of China, a similar mood of patriotic fervour is gripping the authorities. ...
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Zhang to make film celebrating communist China's birthday
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is joining the trend to make a tribute film celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). During his attendanceat the annual National People's Congress, Zhang told China's CCTV that he is working on several scripts and hopes to start shooting this year. ...
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UK theatre producers team with China's Dadi Media on musical
London-based Broadway producer Toby Simkin and Hampshire-based Captive Theater and Music are teaming up with China's Dadi Media and ESA Cultural Investment to co-produce musical feature The Sacrifice Of Yang Guifei. The film will be shot in mainland China with English as its primary language. It will be written and ...
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Feng to direct disaster movie about Tangshan earthquake
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers Pictures is teaming up with state-owned China Film Group and Tangshan City Government to co-produce disaster drama Tangshan Dadizheng, about the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976. Feng Xiaogang will direct the $25m drama, which will tell the story of the devastating earthquake that took the lives of over ...
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...
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Chan, Polybona establish production company Cinema Popular
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong film-maker Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Chinese producer/director Huang Jianxin have jointly established Beijing-based film production company Cinema Popular, as part of Beijing-based Bona International Film Group.The company has set up a film fund of $73.1m (RMB500m) and plans to produce 15 films in the ...
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Zhao Wei to star in Mulan for Beijing-based Starlight
Beijing-based Starlight International has announced that it will produce and invest in a live-action version of Chinese classic folk story Mulan, set to star Chinese actress Vicky Zhao Wei (Red Cliff). Jingle Ma will direct the film which is scheduled to start shooting in mid-February. The budget of the film ...
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Chinese New Year box office up by 30% in mainland China
The 2009 Chinese New Year holidays ended on Sunday (Feb 1) with outstanding box office results in mainland China. The one-week holiday took in around $29.2m (RMB200m) in box office receipts, which is a 30% increase on the same period in 2008. Around 15 films were on release during the ...
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China - The pain of war
Raising the budget for a film is not easy for any film-maker. But few have had it as hard as Chinese director Lu Chuan. He made his name internationally with festival favourite Kekexili: Mountain Patrol in 2004, but his success did not help him back home in China when trying ...