All Asia articles – Page 459
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Bona Entertainment, JC Group team on Chan's Big Soldier
Beijing-based Bona Entertainment is teaming with Jackie Chan’s JC Group International and Singapore fundLM Media on action comedy Big Soldier (working title), starringChan, Wang Lee-hom and Korean singer Yoo Seung-jun.
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Empire takes North America on Thru The Moebius Strip
Empire Film Group has acquired North American rights from Fantastic Films International to the $16m CGI adventure Thru The Moebius Strip.
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Korea's Jeonju film festival launches indie projects market
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is celebrating its tenth edition with a number of events including the launch of a Korean indie projects market and anniversary screenings of JIFF previous awardees and first films. The projects market aims to support Korean filmmakers with low-budget and independent films by ...
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Perfect Life takes Golden Digital award at HKIFF
Emily Tang’s Perfect Life, about people coming to terms with the new social and economic realities of mainland China, was awarded the Golden Digital Prize in the Asian Digital Competition at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). The Silver Digital Prize went to Malaysian director James Lee for ...
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Slumdog Millionaire has strong opening weekend in China
Slumdog Millionaire grossed $2.93m (RMB20m) during its first four days on release in mainland China, which marks the biggest opening for a non-US foreign filmfor the past ten years.The film was released on Thursday, March 26 with 400 film prints and more than 200 digital screens across major Chinese cities. ...
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Fakir Of Venice to premiere at Indian Film Festival of LA
The World Premiere of Anand Surapur’s conmen drama The Fakir Of Venice and Megan Doneman’sYes Madam, Sir bookend the seventh Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, which runs April 21-26.
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Nuclear Mango and Eros to bring Indian legends to life
Govind Menon and William Keenan's Indian-US production consultancy Nuclear Mango is lining up a slate of features with Eros Entertainment based on mythological Indian creatures.The partners are jointly developing the initial roster and are talking to writers about character concepts. Eros will handle worldwide distribution on the slate.Menon said: 'It ...
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CJ seals further deals on disaster movie Haeundae
Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has announced further pre-sales from Hong Kong Filmart on JK Youn's tsunami-attacks-Busan film Haeundae. The film has been sold to J-Bics for Thailand, IOF Entertainment for India, Visicom Suraya for Indonesia and Suraya for the Philippines. With CGI by Hans Ulrich, who worked on films such ...
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Five Japanese majors join forces for VoD movie channel
Japanese majors Kadokawa, Shochiku, Toei, Toho and Nikkatsu have partnered to supply feature films through newly established pay-per-view (PPV) channel Marumaru Eiga. The channel, which went live on March 26, is offered through the Actvila VoD service, which offers TV viewers movie contents through a broadband internet connection and a ...
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Knowing takes international crownwith $9.8m from 10 markets
Summit International's sci-fi thriller Knowing finished the weekend as the biggest overseas Hollywood release in play as it launched in nine markets and grossed an estimated $9.8m including previews from 1,711 sites in ten markets. The film opened at number one in the UK on $3.6m from 390 sites including ...
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Boyle to chair Shanghai film festival jury
The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced that Danny Boyle will chair the international jury at the upcoming 12th edition of the festival (June 13-21). Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire had its China premiere in Beijing yesterday (March 26) and the film is opening on more than 1,000 screens this weekend. ...
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Local heroes - the hitmakers in key territories
Screen looks at local film-makers helping drive the box office in key international territories.GERMANYGerman cinema-owners look forward to packed screens when a new film from comedy director Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig is on the release schedule. Constantin Film is opening his next film, Wickie The Mighty Viking, in September. Promotion has ...
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Gran Torino races ahead in international box office
It may have been overlooked during the awards season, but Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is outperforming all five best-picture contenders in North America. Since a wide release on January 9, Gran Torino has grossed $145.2m domestically and passed $65m internationally. This brings its worldwide tally for Warner Bros Pictures within ...
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Gran Torino poised to cross $70m internationally with Mexico launch
Gran Torino should march on towards the $70m mark this weekend through strong holdover business and a debut in Mexico on March 27 through Warner Bros Pictures International.Clint Eastwood's drama has reached $63.9m to date and crossed $210mworldwide and its prospects are looking formidable with roughlytwo-thirds of international markets yet ...
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Young's Christmas Rose receives full financing at HAF
Charlie Young's Christmas Rose received the HAF Excellence Award at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) today, for managing to raise its entire $2m budget at the three-day event. Beijing-based Orange Sky Entertainment stepped up on the second day of the market to fully finance the film - ...
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Filmart takes on regional flavour
As Filmart reached the half-way point on Tuesday, sellers were reporting that the market was relatively busy but much more Asia-focused than in previous years.'We've been quite busy but most of our meetings have been with Asian buyers - there are fewer companies from the US and Europe and substantially ...
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NewsFortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, Face
Fortissimo Films has sealed a slew of deals on food industry documentary Food, Inc following its screening at the Berlinale and during Filmart, including a sale to A-Films for Benelux and Cafe Groove for Japan.The film, which world premiered at Toronto before it screened in Berlin, has also gone to ...
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CJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on Haeundae
Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has pre-sold JK Youn’s tsunami-attacks-Busan filmHaeundaeto VSG for Singapore and Malaysia.’Haeundae is a concept film with high production values - Hans Ulrich who worked on A Perfect Storm, Star Wars 4 and 5, and The Day After Tomorrow is supervising the CGI, and so far it ...
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Hong Kong Filmart news digest
March 25Filmart takes on regional flavourYoung’s Christmas Rosereceives full financing at HAFMarch 24Fortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, FaceCJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on HaeundaeSalon’s pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2March 23Japanese cinema triumphs at Asian Film Awards in Hong KongFortissimo picks up rights outside ...
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Sundream takes Hong Kong rights to TWC's musical Nine
Hong Kong’s Sundream Motion Pictures has acquired all Hong Kong rights to Rob Marshall’s musical Nine from The Weinstein Company (TWC).Sundream has an output deal with TWC but, according to Sundream vice president of buinsess development, Tom Cheung, the expensive film was acquired outside that arrangement.Currently in post-production for US ...