All Asia articles – Page 341
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NewsScreen Australia backs Thornton, Ayres projects
Screen Australia is to invest in five new feature films, three of which are from the proven directors Warwick Thornton (Samson And Delilah), Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories) and Kriv Stenders (Red Dog).
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Ganguly debut set to be Banished
Bengali actress Churni Ganguly, who appeared in Kaushik Ganguly’s Sound and Laptop, is set to make her directorial debut with a feature film about Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin.
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NewsSaints team in tandem on The Cycle
Musa Syeed, director of Kashmir-set Valley Of Saints, is re-teaming with producer Nicholas Bruckman and DoP Yoni Brook to shoot his next feature The Cycle in the Republic of Yemen.
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Screen Australia backs comedies in latest funding round
Australian writer/directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes and producer Julie Ryan have scored development money from Screen Australia for their next picture, crime comedy They Shoot Hostages, Don’t They?
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Reliance, Wanda Group to form joint venture
India’s Reliance Group and China’s Dalian Wanda Group have announced plans to create a joint venture covering real estate and multiplexes in India and the US.
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FeaturesAnurag Basu
Anurag Basu talks to Screen about Barfi!, India’s official entry for consideration in the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category.
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NewsIndia's indie filmmakers question new wave
The concept of the Indian New Wave has been over-hyped and doesn’t reflect the current situation in Indian cinema, said Miss Lovely director Ashim Ahluwalia at a DIFF Forum panel yesterday.
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Boehm moves to Icon Australia
Susan Boehm will take up a new Sydney-based role as head of acquisitions and development at Icon Film Distribution in January.
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Seven Stars forms joint venture with Arad Productions
Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment is forming a joint venture with US producer Avi Arad (The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man) and his company Arad Productions, to develop superhero franchise properties.
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NewsShowbox takes on Jang Joon-hwan's Hwayi
Korea’s Showbox/Mediaplex has announced it is investing in, distributing and selling Save The Green Planet director Jang Joon-hwan’s highly-anticipated second film Hwayi, starring Kim Yun-seok (The Thieves).
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ScreenSingapore's new format wins industry approval
The 2nd ScreenSingapore event closed Friday (Dec 7), held in conjunction for the first time with the Asian TV Forum & Market (ATF), with attendees saying it was an improvement on last year’s event, although the market itself was more focused on television than film.
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NewsFoxtel tightens grasp on Australia's pay TV movie market
Australia’s Movie Network Channels (MNC) has lost its battle to survive and, while there is a lot of uncertainty around the impact, it is going to mean lower prices being paid in Australia for both studio and independent films.
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NewsClover sells Boys To Men to Star Chinese Movies
Singapore’s Clover Films has sold pay-TV rights in multiple Southeast Asian territories to Jack Neo’s Ah Boys To Men to STAR Chinese Movies.
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MDA unveils grant recipients under new scheme
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced the eight local directors who have each been awarded $205,000 (S$250,000) under the inaugural New Talent Feature Grant (NTFG).
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Mythopolis unwraps Afterimages at ScreenSingapore
Singapore production company Mythopolis Pictures announced the production of Tony Kern’s horror film Afterimages at the on-going ScreenSingapore conference.
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Cathay to unleash Red Numbers in Feb 2013
Cathay-Keris Films announced at ScreenSingapore this week that Singaporean film Red Numbers will be released February 22, 2013.
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NewsSupernova unveils first Sing-Cambodia co-production
Singapore production company Supernova Media announced the first Singapore-Cambodia co-production at the on-going ScreenSingapore conference.
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NewsAl Clark lines up trio including Stephan Elliott comedy
Producer Al Clark is working on an untitled comedy with director Stephan Elliott, a pairing that previously created The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, one of the best-known Australian films ever made.
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NewsSapphires heads nominations for AACTA awards
This year’s standout box office hit The Sapphires, is up against Burning Man, Lore and Wish You Were Here for the crown of best film in the AACTA (Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts) Awards, to be presented at the end of January in Sydney.
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NewsEpilogue takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
Amir Manor’s Epilogue was awarded the grand prize and $8,500 (Y700,000) at the closing awards of the 13th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 23-Dec 2).