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Censors block four films at Singapore festival
The 21st Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) which started on Apr 4 has lost four documentary films to the local censors with another feature still pending a rating.Two of them, Arabs And Terrorism and David The Tolhildan, were 'disallowed' on account of their sympathetic portrayal of allegedly terrorist organisations.'Films which ...
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Ah Long becomes biggest Singapore release in Malaysia
Jack Neo's Ah Long Pte Ltd has become the biggest Singapore release in Malaysia after raking in $0.7 m (RM2.22m) in 12 days. The comedy drama, revolving around a woman gangster boss played by Fann Wong, broke the $0.34 m (RM1.07m) record set by I Not Stupid Too, also directed ...
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Three Chinese films withdrawn from Hong Kong festival
Three Chinese films have been pulled out of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Mar 17 - Apr 6) amid increasing fears that Chinais tightening censorship following the recent Lust, Caution controversy.Han Yan's Winds of September - The Chinese Mainland Chapter, Zhang Yibai's Chongqing-set Lost, Indulgence and A Decade of ...
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Three Chinese films withdrawn from Hong Kong festival
Three Chinese films have been pulled out of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Mar 17 - Apr 6) increasing fears that Chinais tightening censorship following the recent Lust, Caution controversy.Han Yan's Winds of September - The Chinese Mainland Chapter, Zhang Yibai's Chongqing-set Lost, Indulgence and A Decade of Love, ...
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Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemaspicks up Filmart trio
Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) has acquired three films from Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution at Hong Kong Filmart.They are the Pang Brothers' The Storm Riders II, Oxide Pang's So What and On The Edge 2 by Herman Yau.It also acquired Ip Man which features Donnie Yen and Simon Yam ...
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Universe kicks up a storm of pre-sales for Pang Brothers
Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution has scored a string of pre-sales on the Pang Brothers' The Stormriders II, starring Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng, which was unveiled a press conference at Filmart yesterday. The $12m martial arts project has been snapped up by Chengtian/Golden Harvest, which has acquired rights for ...
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M&FC sells Someone Behind You to US
South Korean sales agent M&FC has announced a slew of sales on its romantic comedy Hello, Schoolgirl and horror film Someone Behind You.The company sold US rights to Someone Behind You to 24 Frames, while Ta Lai bought Taiwanese rights.Meanwhile, TV rights to Hello, Schoolgirl, which stars Yoo Ji-tae (Oldboy), ...
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Swift to co-produce Cinema Impierno
France 's Swift Distribution has boarded Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza 's Cinema Impierno (aka Service) as a co-producer - marking the sales company's first foray into production.The company will finance the $500,000 HAF project along with Mendoza's Center Stage Productions. Filming will begin this Friday (March 21)Swift founder Didier Costet said ...
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Star picks up Painted Skin
The Star Group has picked up pay-TV rights to Donnie Yen-starrer Painted Skin for Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.The deal was concluded by sales startup Eastern Mordor Film.Headed by Ningxia Film Studio's vice president Pang Hung who is also the film's main producer, the new Hong Kong-based company was formed by ...
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Mono leads Filmartsales with The Follower
Thailand 's Mono Films has pre-sold The Follower to Indonesia's Ram Indo for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei.The film is a horror thriller about a student being haunted by a mysterious man after his girlfriend died in a caraccident when he takes her out on a used car.With production set ...
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Thailand lures international shoots
Thailand continues to be a hot Asian shooting destination with six international feature films scheduled to shoot there in the upcoming months, including Lee Jun-ik's Sunny, the Pang Brothers' Stormriders 2 and Street Fighter.Korean director Lee (King And The Clown) has just wrapped his latest film Sunny after a three-month ...
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Easternlight Films acquires Legendary Assassin
Arclight Films' Asian label Easternlight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Wu Jing's action film Legendary Assassin at Filmart.The deal, which excludes Hong Kong and China, is the first between Easternlight and Paco Wong's production company Gold Label Pictures from Hong Kong.The $4m film marks the directorial debut of ...
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Vietnam Media brings Nguyen's award-winning Little Heart to market
Vietnam Media is debuting Nguyen Thanh Van's Little Heart (Trai Tim Be Bong) at Hong Kong's Filmart.The film follows the plight of a village girl when she is sold to a brothel in the city.Nguyen, who was named best director for this film at the Golden Kite Awards, said the ...
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Khoo, Tan and Tong top Raintree slate
Celebrating its 10th anniversary as Singapore 's leading producer, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures has unveiled a slate of five projects, including three by the most prominent local film-makers and two co-productions with Hong Kong 's Salon Films.Eric Khoo will direct Chinese Rose - a biopic of 'Queen of Striptease' Rose Chan, ...
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Upside Down signs $11m deal with Hanwen
Singapore's Upside Down Entertainment (UDE) has sealed an $11m co-financing and co-production deal with China's Hanwen Animation Co (HAC), it was announced here today.The slate includes 3D animated feature Last Days and live-action TV series Colourful Fish. Both are English-language projects aimed at international markets.Most of the production will take ...
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Celestial launches first Blu-ray title
Celestial Pictures is to release its first Blu-ray title with 1984 classic Behind The Yellow Line from the Shaw Brothers film library, starring the late Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung.'We are planning to release more Shaw Brothers classics in in Blu-ray format to deliver the most advanced viewing experience to ...
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Mendoza picks up pre-sales on Service
Ignatius Films Canada has picked up a string of pre-sales for Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza 's latest film Service, including France and French-speaking territories (Swift Distribution), UK and Ireland (Peccadillo Pictures), and Taiwan (Joint Entertainment).Shot in cinema verite style, the film about male prostitution has been selected for HAF this year.The ...
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Syndromes to be released with blacked-out scenes
Acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has finally accepted the local censors' verdict of removing 'objectionable' scenes from his Syndromes And A Century after a second appeal was rejected. But he has replaced the censored scenes with silent scratched black film which amount to about 15 minutes with the longest such ...
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China focus for Locations World
Shooting in China will be the central focus of the second Locations World trade show, which is running alongside this year's Filmart.A record 13 mainland Chinese production services providers are taking part for the first time, including Hengdian Chinese Film Industrial Park, China Film Group Digital Film Production Base, Shanghai ...
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Bangkok International Film Fest to go ahead in July
Following the recent appointment of Weerasak Kowsurat as the new minister of tourism and sports, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has finally been given the greenlight for this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (BKIFF) which will be held from July 21-30. The Federation of National Film Association of Thailand, which ...