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Asian trio join forces for Black Night omnibus
Japan's Movie-Eye Entertainment has joined forces with Thailand's Five Star Production and Hong Kong's Filmko Entertainment in producing a $2.5m pan-regional horror thatfeatures some of the hottest Asian talents. Black Night,unveiled today at the Bangkok Film Market, is an omnibus film with threesegments. Each 30-minute story stands on its own ...
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Thailand's M Pictures takes trio from Nu Image
Thailand's M Pictures has acquired three titles from Nu Imageat the Bangkok Film Market, including DayOf The Dead, the remake of George A Romero's classic horror.The company has also snappedup action titles End Game, directedby Andy Cheng, and Isaac Florentine's Undisputed2, which are both set to open in Thailand later ...
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Red Films comes to Bangkok Film Festival with impressive slate
The 3rd Bangkok Film Marketkicked off today with more than 80 exhibitors from over 30 countries. Malaysia'sproduction company Red Films has chosen this market to make its debut as aseller, offering 12 productions by cutting-edge independent Malaysianfilm-makers.Its slate, which features productions fromChinese, Malay to English and Tamil, includes three titles ...
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Malaysia's Red Films makes sales debut at BFM
Malaysian production companyRed Films is making its debut as a seller at the Bangkok Film Market (BFM), which kicked off onMonday, offering 12 productions from cutting-edge independent Malaysianfilm-makers.The company's slate includesthree titles competing in the ASEAN section of the Bangkok International FilmFestival (BKKIFF): Deepak Menon's ChemmanChaalai, which won a special ...
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Invisible Waves roll from Berlin to Bangkok festival opening
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's highly-anticipated noir thriller Invisible Waves kicks off the 4thBangkok International Film Festival today. The Thai director, along with actor AsanoTadanobu, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and co-producer MingmongkolSonakul,are expected to reach the Thai capital in time for the red-carpet opening nightafter premiering the film in Berlin three days ago. The ...
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Seven Swords, Perhaps Love lead race for Hong Kong Film Awards
Tsui Hark's martial arts film Seven Swords and Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love lead the race for the 25thHong Kong Film Awards with 11 nods each, closely followed by Johnnie To's triad drama Electionand Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's car racing drama Initial D with 10 nods each. All fourfilms ...
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Thai production companies leave FNFAT to support Bangkok Film Festival
Threeleading Thai production companies, GMM Tai Hub, Five Star and RS Film, lastFriday quit the Federation of the National Film Association of Thailand (FNFAT)in support of the upcoming Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) whichstarts on 17 February.RightBeyond has also submitted its resignation on Monday while CM Film is understoodto be ...
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Singapore's I Not Stupid Too has strong opening
Jack Neo's Chinese New Yearoffering I Not Stupid Too has rackedup the biggest six-day opening for a local film in Singapore with $865,611 (S$1.41m), narrowly beating theprevious record of $848,856 (S$1.39m) set by Neo's Liang Po Po The Movie in 1999.Released through UIP, thesocio-comedy opened on 37 prints on Jan ...
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MPA settles Singapore piracy case
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) and Singapore home video licensee Alliance Entertainment havereached an out-of-court settlement with the TS Group which was sued forcopyright infringement. As part of the settlementterms, TS, a group of home video companies with over 20 retail outlets in Singapore, has admitted illegally infringing four copyrightedtitles (Die ...
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Malaysian box office reaches record high
Malaysia's box office revenues grew by 21.5% to hit $64.87m(RM243.63m) in 2005, making it the biggest year ever in the territory's boxoffice history. Last year was also thefourth year in a row that Malaysia enjoyed double-digit growth. An average of 20.5% perannum growth was recorded over the three years from ...
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Bangkok unveils contenders for Golden Kinnarees
Brazil's House Of Sand, the UK's Mrs Henderson Presents and South Korea'sSympathy For Lady Vengeance are amongthe 12 films that have been selected for the international competition sectionof this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Feb 17-27).Four Golden Kinnaree awardswill be given out for best film, best director, best actor and ...
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Harry Potter tops flat 2005 Singapore box office
Amid double-digit declineacross most key international markets, Singapore witnessed a marginal rise in 2005 box office takingsby 0.88% to $74.7m (S$121.4m) despite a drop of 6.9% in cinema admissions to14.8 million.Prior to 2005, thecity-state had been enjoying an average of 7.7% per annum growth in box officetakings and a 4.3% ...
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The Tin Mine wins top awards at Thai Suphannahongsa
Jira Maligool's The Tin Mine swept the Suphannahongsaawards last night (Jan 4), scooping six awards including best film, bestdirector and best supporting actor. The coming-of-age dramais Thailand's entry for the Oscar.Executive producers VisutePoolvoralaks from GMM Tai Hub and MingmongkolSonakul from Dedicate were on hand to receive the best filmaward, as ...
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Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) selects 25 film projects
TheHong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has unveiled 25 Asian filmprojects for its 2006 edition. The selection consists of 10 projects from Hong Kong, 3 each from China and Taiwan, two each from Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, and one from Iran.'These25 projects are representative of the ...
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Hong Kong's 2005 box office hits new record lows
Hong Kong cinema grossed a depressing $36.6m (HK$284m)from a record low of 55 local productions in 2005, continuing the decline of recent years.According to figurescompiled by the territory's Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA), only two local films cracked the top 10: car racing drama Initial D zoomed to top the ...
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Gie scoops best picture at Indonesia's top film honours
Riri Riza's Gie was named best picture at this year'sIndonesian Film Festival (FFI) awards ceremony which was held on Dec 15.The political drama, Indonesia's entry for the best foreign-language film Oscar,also walked away with the best actor award for Nicolas Saputra and bestcinematography for Yudi Datau.Romantic comedy Brownies also received ...
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Celluloid Dreams picks up Royston Tan's 4:30
French sales outfit CelluloidDreams has acquired worldwide rights excluding Japan and Singapore to 4:30, the latest film from young Singapore writer/director Royston Tan whose credits include 15.The film is a quiet andintrospective drama about urban loneliness with only two main characters, aChinese boy and his Korean tenant. "We view 4:30 ...
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SFC grants seed money to six projects
The Singapore FilmCommission (SFC) has announced the winners of its inaugural project developmentfunding scheme which offers total seed money of up to $118,624 (S$200,000) tosix new Singapore projects.The new scheme aims toencourage filmmakers to turn their creative ideas into viable projects bygiving earlier financial assistance during the project development phase. ...
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KOFIC and Singapore's MDA join forces
The Korean Film Council of the Republic ofKorea (KOFIC) has inked a co-operation agreement with Singapore'sMedia Development Authority for film production under the Korean-Singapore FreeTrade Agreement (KSFTA).KSFTA, made in August this year, is Korea'sfirst FTA with an Asian country. The new co-operation agreement was signedtoday by MDA chairman Tan Chin ...
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Promising signs for Singapore digital animation
Singapore is boasting a first in digitalanimation with the release of Zodiac, The Race Begins, the city-state's first 3D animation feature.The $2m animation which is about themythical race of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, is the debut film project ofCubix International, initially a branding consultancy firm in Singapore beforebranching out ...