All Asia articles – Page 373
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NewsHarvest, Sun Redrock launch $800m fund to invest in Asian and Western companies and films
Harvest Alternative Investment Group (a subsidiary of Harvest Fund Management) and Bruno Wu’s Sun Redrock Investment Group have formed the new Harvest Seven Stars Media Fund, which will raise an initial $800m in capital.
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NewsFinecut acquires Hong Sang-soo's Another Country
The South Korean sales company will be screening a promo reel at the upcoming European Film Market.
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NewsAsia Pacific Film Festival to be held in Shanghai
The organisers of the Asia Pacific Film Festival have announced that the 55th edition will be held in Shanghai, marking the first time the event has been held in mainland China.
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NewsFortissimo takes aim at Monsoon Shootout
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside India/South Asia to Amit Kumar’s UK-India production Monsoon Shootout, which recently wrapped in Mumbai.
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NewsThe Raid producers to make sequel later this year
Gareth Huw Evans returns to direct his The Raid star Iko Uwais on the project, which will shoot in Indonesia towards the end of the year. Celluloid Nightmares has already closed a slew of territories and SPWA holds US and select territory rights.
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NewsFilmEngine to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan
Los Angeles-based FilmEngine is to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan, with Taiwan’s Hsu Po-yun, founding partner of New Aspect Cultural Foundation and executive board for Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP).
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NewsHong Kong cinema squeezed out by high rents
One of Hong Kong exhibitor UA Cinemas’ flagship multiplexes closed its doors yesterday (Jan 31) after losing its rental lease on the ground floor of the busy Times Square shopping mall.
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NewsRedDog, Snowtown honoured at Australian Academy awards
AACTA gives best film honours to box-office hit Red Dog.
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NewsBerlinale Competition rounds out with Wang Quan’an epic White Deer Plain
Berlin favourite Wang returns to Competition with sweeping epic starring Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Yuqi and Wu Gang.
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NewsSouth Korea's record 2011 box office up 7.4% year-on-year
KOFIC reports that gross was $1.1bn for the year.
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NewsJapanese box office falls 18% after lack of mega-hits and March 11 disaster
Overall box office revenue for 2011 totalled $2.36bn (Y181.2bn), a steep drop of 18% from 2010; local films declined by 16%.
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NewsSingaporean, Malaysian film industries increase ties
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) is taking a delegation of 33 media and entertainment companies to the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, as part of a drive to increase ties between the two South-East Asian neighbours.
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NewsIt Gets Better takes audience award at inaugural Hua Hin fest
Thai romantic drama It Gets Better was presented with the audience award at the closing of the first Hua Hin International Film Festival (Jan 26-29) on Sunday night.
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NewsAustralia’s 2011 box office gross down 3% in 2011; Red Dog cracks top 10
Gross box office in Australia in 2011 was $1,147.5 million (A$1,093.7m), three per cent down on the previous year, while cinema admissions were down 7.7 per cent to 85 million.
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