All Asia articles – Page 291
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NewsTokyo to introduce viewer's award
The Tokyo International FIlm Festival will unveil a new award for its Competition section, the WOWOW Viewer’s Choice Award.
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NewsChina’s But Always set for N America
China Lion Film picks up Nicholas Tse, Gao Yuanyuan starrer But Always from Emperor Motion Pictures for North America, Australia/New Zealand
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NewsTokyo to host Hideaki Anno showcase
The only filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki would ever acknowledge as his apprentice to be celebrated at TIFF.
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NewsDisney bolsters Asia exec suite
Paul Candland has been named to the newly created position of president of The Walt Disney Company, Asia.
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NewsDark Valley wins at Puchon
In Korea, the 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) wrapped with Andreas Prochaska’s Austria-Germany Alps cowboy co-production The Dark Valley picking up the Best of Puchon award.
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NewsOplev to direct Kahaani remake
Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev wil direct Deity, an English-language remake of Indian hit thriller Kahaani for YRF Entertainment.
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NewsScreen Australia reflects on cuts
Around $20m in direct annual investment in film production has escaped the knife in a package of changes that will reduce Screen Australia’s current annual budget by $US5.18m (A$5.5m).
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NewsBig Hero 6 world premiere to open Tokyo
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its opening film will be the world premiere of Disney animation Big Hero 6.
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NewsDead, End wins at PiFan's NAFF
The 18th Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) wrapped tonight with top Bucheon Award going to Dev Benegal’s Indian project Dead, End Or: How I Learned To Stop Living And Love Being Officially Dead.
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NewsScreen Australia backs 18 features
UK producer Kevin Loader joins comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
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NewsTransmedia talks at PiFan’s NAFF
At the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), experts discussed transmedia storytelling, where it’s at and where it could go in the near future.
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NewsSpackman jumps 79% on Singapore debut
Korea’s Spackman Entertainment Group (SEG) surged 78.9% in an IPO on the Catalist board of the Singapore stock exchange on Tuesday (July 22).
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NewsTiny Times 3 tops China box office
CHINA BOX OFFICE: The third installment in Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times franchise grossed $50.12m over its opening weekend in China, finally toppling Transformers: Age Of Extinction from the top spot.
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NewsChina box office up 25% in H1 2014
China’s box office increased by 25% to reach $2.23bn (RMB13.74bn) in the first half of 2014, according to official figures from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRT).
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NewsUnveil The Truth wins in Taipei
Kevin Lee’s documentary Unveil The Truth II: State Apparatus won the Grand Prize and best documentary at this year’s Taipei Film Awards, which took place at the close of the Taipei Film Festival on July 19.
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Lippo Group to invest $516m in cinemas
Indonesia’s Lippo Group has announced plans to invest $516m (6 trillion rupiahs) in 300 multiplexes across the country over the next ten years.
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NewsAlibaba pacts with high-profile trio
ChinaVision Media Group, which will soon be renamed Alibaba Pictures Group, has signed production deals with Wong Kar Wai’s Block 2 Pictures, Angie Chai and Giddens Ko’s Star Ritz International Entertainment and Peter Ho-sun Chan’s We Pictures.
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NewsPanna Rittikrai dies aged 53
Panna Rittikrai, the action choreographer who introduced Thai action movies to world audiences, has died aged 53.