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PUSAN: EuropaCorp picks up French rights to Unseeable
Luc Besson's EuropaCorp hasacquired French rights to Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng's new horror The Unseeable, which is scheduled toopen in Thailand on November 2, followed by a market debut at AFM.The $2m picture, funded bylocal producer Five Star, has also been sold to Grand Brilliance for Malaysia and Brunei, Astro ...
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PUSAN: Tong to direct horror comedy for Singapore's Innoform
Singapore writer-director Kelvin Tong, whose Love Story is playing here at Pusan, will next shoot MenIn White, a horror comedy co-financed by Singapore video distributor InnoForm Media and Tong'sproduction company Boku Films.The $500,000 picture, which willbe shot on HD, follows a group of four men who die on the same ...
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PUSAN: Lim's Untold Beauty takes a walk on Wild Side
France's Wild Side Films has taken on the French rights to Singapore new writer-director Roy Lim's Untold Beauty, the debut project of two start-up production housesfrom Singapore, Rebel Productions and Shooting Gallery MotionPictures. The acquisition marks thefirst pre-sale ever of an independent Singapore film to a major territory. "We are ...
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Polybona boards Bigfoot's Chinese-language Huilu
China's Beijing Polybona has come on board as co-producer on Huilu, the Chinese-language version ofHong Kong-based Bigfoot Entertainment's psychological thriller Irreversi.The move qualifies the filmas a Hong Kong-China co-production, thus making it eligible for release inmainland China. Huilu wasshot in Hong Kong almost back-to-back with the English-language Irreversi, the directorial ...
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Thai Film Federation drops Waves for Ahimsa
In an unexpected move, Thailand has dropped Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Invisible Waves as its entry for the bestforeign-language film category of the Oscars and submitted Kittikorn Leosakun'sAhimsa: Stop To Run instead. The Federation of National FilmAssociation, responsible for selecting and submitting a Thai candidate, told Screendaily that it was forced to ...
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Golden Village installs 3D digital cinema system
Through its brand newflagship multiplex GV Vivocity, Singapore's largest exhibitor Golden Village has become the first in South-East Asia toinstall a 3D digital cinema system provided by Kodak. Using Real D's 3Dstereoscopic technologies, the new system is equipped with a Kodak cine-serverand Barco projector. Upcoming 3D releases include the international ...
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Indonesia submits Love For Share as Oscar entry
Nia Dinata's Love For Share (Berbagi Suami) has been named Indonesia's official entry for this year's foreign-languageOscar category. The entry was selected byPersatuan Perusahaan Film Indonesia (PPFI) which has created a 17-memberselection committee comprising film-makers, actors, writers, critics anddistributors. The committee is headed byfilm critic Leila Chudori and members include ...
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Thailand selects Invisible Waves as Oscar entry
Thailand has chosen Pen-ek Ratanaruang's noir thriller Invisible Waves as its official entryfor the best foreign-language film category of the 2007 Academy Awards.The meeting of the selectioncommittee was postponed from last Wednesday as a result of the military coupthat put Thailand under martial law the night before. The selection committee ...
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Bangkok's World Film Festival spreads Banquet
The 4th World Film Festivalof Bangkok will open on October 11 with a gala premiere of Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet. The 13-day festival, ashowcase of contemporary Asian and world cinema, will screen more than 70 filmsfrom 30 countries at three venues in Bangkok. Eight films have beenselected for competition, including ...
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution starts shooting in Malaysia
Ang Lee's wartime spythriller Lust, Caution started shooting this week in the Malaysian city of Ipoh, well-known for its pre-war architecture. Adapted from a novella bythe late Chinese author Eileen Chang, the Chinese-language picture is about agroup of patriotic students who plot to assassinate an intelligence chief,played by Tony Leung ...
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Video-on-demand service prepares Asia Pacific launch
Singapore-based video-on-demand company Anytime is set to launch an on-demand entertainment portal that allows consumers access to internet-delivered programming in the Asia Pacific region.Anytime TV is an Intel Viiv technology-based digital entertainment platform, which can transfer Hollywood movie content from the PC to the TV at home.Intel Capital, the venture ...
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Ahmad's Gubra gets best film honours in Malaysia
Gubra,the follow-up to writer/director Yasmin Ahmad'sinter-racial love drama Sepet,walked away with best film, best original screenplay and best actress for Sharifah Amani at the 19thMalaysian Film Festival ceremony Sunday night. It is the second time in a row that an Ahmad filmreceived the top honours after Sepet swept six awards ...
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Perhaps Love wins big at Golden Bauhinia Awards
Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love dominated the 11th Hong Kong GoldenBauhinia Awards (GBA) last night, winning six awards including best director,best actress for Zhou Xun, best cinematography, bestart direction, best film music and best film song. Thebest film award went to Johnnie To's gangster thriller Election which also bagged best ...
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Bet Collector gets year's first A rating in Philippines
Filipino directorJeffrey Jeturian's The Bet Collector (Kubrador), which isset for a North American premiere in Toronto, has become the first film to begiven an A rating this year by the Philippines' Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB).According to the CEB,the low-budget digital film that revolves around the daily life of an aging ...
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New Hong Kong producer Artforce starts Protege
Through newHong Kong-based production company ArtforceInternational, two top Hong Kong film-makers are teaming together for the first time on Protege, a drugtrafficking drama produced by Peter Chan and directed by Derek Yee.A new jointventure between Yee, Chan and his business partner Andre Morgan, Artforce is co-producing the $4.6m (HK$36m) film ...
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Dragon Tiger Gate earns $3m in Asian opening
Hong Kong summer blockbuster DragonTiger Gate has earned more than $3m from six territories across Asia in its firstthree days of release.After its July 28opening, the action film scored the biggest three-day opening for a Chinesefilm in Hong Kong this year, raking in $700,000 (HK$5.4m) on 52 screens.Released by Beijing ...
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Bigfoot extends film fund to Singapore
LA and Asia-basedproducer/investor Bigfoot Entertainment plans to invest in Singapore-producedfeatures through its Bigfoot Partners Film Fund.The fund, which aims tosupport high-quality independent productions from emerging and established filmmakers,will pump between $200,000 and $2m into individual Singapore projects. According to Bigfoot directorof creative development, Timothy Doolen, the fund is looking for ...
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Rock band biopic wins best film at Cinemalaya
Michael Sandejas' Tulad Ng Dati was named best film at thesecond Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in Manila last night.The digital film based onthe story of rock band The Dawn alsotook away best sound and shared the best editing award with Rotonda. Ron Bryant was named bestdirector for Rotonda. Batad: Sa ...
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Thailand gears up for Bangkok Dangerous shoot
Thailand is set to host its biggest foreign shoot to date -Initial Entertainment Group's remake of the Pang Brothers gangster thriller Bangkok Dangerous - which is scheduledto start shooting for three months from this August. According to the Thailand FilmOffice, the remake, starring Nicolas Cage, will bring in $5.8m (220m ...
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MDA reports strong Cannes sales tally for Singapore
Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced astring of sales on the Singapore films presented at Cannes, including multiple deals on MediaCorp RaintreePictures' noir thriller One Last Dance.US sales outfit BleibergEntertainment sold the film to Germany (EMS), Poland (Carisma), Hungary (IMA),Israel (PTV), CIS (Soyuz-Video), Spain (Silco Telecinema), Yugoslavia (MG Film),Brazil ...