All Asia articles – Page 463
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Japan's Usen divests stake in ShowTime VoD portal
Japanese media and communications conglomerate Usen has divested its stake in broadband VoD portal ShowTime Inc. Usen sold its 50% stake in ShowTime to online shopping giant Rakuten Inc for $18.38m (Y1.784bn), making the company a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rakuten. The shares will be delivered on March 25. The two ...
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Yubari awards SR: Saitama's Rapper, premieres Slumdog
Yu Irie’s 79-minute comedy drama SR: Saitama’s Rapper was awarded the grand prix at the19th editionof Japan’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Feb 26-Mar 2), which wrappedtonight.
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Samson and Delilah and Treeless Mountain toast ofAdelaide
The Adelaide Film Festival may only be in its fourth year but the event has developed a reputation far beyond its age by being the first Australian film festival to seriously launch an international feature film competition and the first to invest in films. Following its lead, Sydney now also ...
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Indian Film Company to co-produce Chadha's Afterlife
London and Mumbai-based The Indian Film Company (TIFC) has announced that it will co-produce Gurinder Chadha's upcoming project, It's A Wonderful Afterlife, with the director's Bend It Films. Hanway Films is handling international sales on the film which is scheduled to start shooting March 28 in London. The cast includes ...
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NewsAng Lee to head international jury at Venice's 66th edition
Two-time Venice Golden Lion winner Ang Lee will head the international jury of the Venice FilmFestival’s 66th edition.
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Departures tops Japanese box office following Oscar win
In the first weekend since its Oscar win for best foreign-language film, Departures ascended to the number one position at the Japanese box office after re-entering the top ten last week in eighth place.Departures earned $3.3m (Y320.5m) from 299,495 admissions on 189 screens in its 25th week of release. The ...
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...
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HKIFF to open with Shinjuku Incident, Night And Fog
Derek Yee's Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan, and Ann Hui's Night And Fog will open this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 22-April 13) which announced its line-up today. The world premiere of both films will take place on March 22, one night before the opening of Hong Kong ...
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Busan celebrates opening of AZ Works post-production complex
After five years of work, the city of Busan and the Busan Film Commission (BFC) are celebrating the opening of the 'AZ Works on the beach' post-production complex in Busan's newly developing Centum City. AZ Works, which also has labs in Seoul and Beijing, is headed by CEOLee Yong Gi, ...
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HKIFF to celebrate 25th anniversary of Film Workshop
This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will feature a special sidebar programme celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong production house Film Workshop, founded by filmmaker Tsui Hark and veteran producer Nansun Shi. Entitled 'A Tribute to Romantic Visions: 25th Anniversary of Film Workshop', the sidebar will screen ...
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Regent sets May as US release for Oscar winning Departures
Regent Releasing and Here Media will release their Japanese foreign language Oscar winner Departures in May, the distributor said following the picture's Academy Awards win at the weekend.Yojiro Takita's victory marked the first time Regent and Here received an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the ...
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Singapore film festival to open with Sincerely Yours
The 22nd Singapore International Film Festival (April 14-25) will open with Sincerely Yours from debuting Taiwanese feature director Rich Lee. The film explores the plight of illegal foreign workers in Taiwan with a multi-national cast. The festival will close with Milk from Turkey, a 'quietly stunning and poetic film about ...
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CJ Entertainment to invest $60m in local and overseas projects
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment CEO Katherine Kim has announced that the company will be investing $46.5m - $53.1m this year in 13-15 local releases and another $6.64m in 5-10 overseas projects in the US, China and Japan. Speaking to local press, Kim also talked about Korea's dying ancillary markets ...
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Low-budget doc stampedes South Korean box office
Old Partner, a documentary about an old man and his cow, has topped the South Korean box office with 419,295 admissions from 276 screens this past weekend. The sleeper hit, which is distributed by Indiestory both in Korea and overseas, has accumulated a record 1,393,079 admissions for a documentary, and ...
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AWPto handle sales onTaraporevala's Little Zizou
LA-based American World Pictures (AWP) has picked up international rights to Indian screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala's directorial debut, Little Zizou, from The Indian Film Company (TIFC). Produced by TIFC and executive produced by Mira Nair, the film recently won two awards - best director and best screenplay - at the Mahindra ...
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Wonderful Town wins top honours at Thai Oscars
Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town scooped five awards, including best film and best director, at Thailand's leading film honours, the Subhanahongsa Awards, on Sunday night (Feb 22). The indie drama also won best screenplay - which also went to Assarat - best cinematography and best art direction. A love story set ...
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Departures sweeps Japanese academy awards
Yojiro Takita's Departures picked up ten prizes, including best picture of 2008, at the 32nd Japan Academy prize awards ceremony, held Friday evening at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo. The film, which had thirteen nominations, also won best director, best actor (Masahiro Motoki), best supporting actor (Tsutomu ...
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Korea's Sponge Entertainment wins Shortbus ratings battle
After two years, Sponge Entertainment has won the fight to screen John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus in South Korea with a 'Teenager Restricted' rating. The film follows a sex therapist, who has never experienced an orgasm, as she is introduced to the people in an underground sex club ...
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Frames wraps with talk of cost-cutting and collaboration
As the three-day FICCI Frames media and entertainment conference came to a close in Mumbai yesterday, industry leaders had agreed on three recession-busting strategies - collaboration, improving consumer relations and cutting costs. Speaking at the closing session, Zee chairman Subhash Chandra spoke of the entertainment industry's need to pull together ...