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Fox Star to release Slumdog Millionairein India, Pakistan
Fox Star Studios is set to release the Danny Boyle-directed, Mumbai-set Slumdog Millionaire in India and Pakistan in January, 2009. The English and Hindi-language film, starring Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel, Irfan Khan and Freida Pinto, will also be released in a Hindi-dubbed version entitled Slumdog Millionaire - Kaun Banega Crorepati' ...
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Korea's Gyeonggi province retools incentive programme
South Korea's Gyeonggi province has announced a 10% rebate incentive for film and TV drama productions shooting on location in the region, to replace its previous incentive programme. The new incentive programme goes into effect Jan 1, 2009 - replacing the outgoing programme that offered up to $100,000 for two ...
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APEX secures funding for Chinese cinema chain
New York-listed Entertainment Properties Trust (EPR) has established a strategic alliance with start-up multiplex operator, APEX International Cinemas Investment (HK) Ltd, and its Chinese joint venture partner to open a chain of cinemas in mainland China. EPRisproviding capital of $25m to APEX to build an initial ten multiplex cinemas. APEX ...
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Huayi Bros to produce Francis Ng martial arts comedy
Beijing-based Huayi Bros Pictures is producing a martial arts comedy Zhui Ying to be directed by Hong Kong actor Francis Ng. Jaycee Chan (The Sun Also Rises), actor and son of Jackie Chan, will be the leading cast in the film playing a martial arts fighter Xu Sanguan. Huayi is ...
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Wall-E ends Red Cliff's long run at the top of Japanese box office
Pixar's Wall-E opened at the top of the Japanese box office this past weekend, dethroning John Woo's Red Cliff after five weeks at number one. Although films typically open on Saturdays, distributor Walt Disney released Wall-E on Friday (Dec 5) in Japan. Opening on 461 screens, Wall-E earned $4.84m (Y450m) ...
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Warner Bros signs three-picture deal with India's People Tree
Warner Bros Pictures India has entered into a deal for the production and distribution of three films from Nikhil Advani and Mukesh Talreja's People Tree Films. Advani directed Warner's first Hindi production, Chandni Chowk To China, which is scheduled for release on Jan 16, 2009.The three-picture slate includes rom-com Jaane ...
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KOFIC awards Filmmakers Development Lab grant to Danny Lee
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced Danny Lee as the winner of the 2008 KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab (FDL) grant of $15,000 for his feature film script Winter War. Winter War is a gritty thriller about Paul, an ambitious young commodities trader who gets sucked into the underworld of ...
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Ong Bak 2 opens at top of Thai box office
Tony Jaa's Ong Bak 2 topped the box office in Thailand over its opening three-day weekend (Dec 5-7), grossing an impressive $2m (70m baht) despite the political unrest that has rocked the country in the past few weeks. According to local distributor Sahamongkolfilm International, the opening is the biggest in ...
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China Film Group to release Disney filmBolt in 3D outside quota
China Film Group Digital Cinema Line Co, a subsidiary of state-owned China Film Group Corporation, has said that it will release Disney animation Bolt in digital 3D in the latter half of December. The film will be imported as a revenue-sharing film but is not counted as one the 20 ...
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Disney takes majority stake in India's UTV
Walt Disney Co and the founders of UTV Software Communications have jointly acquired an additional 23% stake in the Indian company. The move gives Disney a majority stake of 59.94% in UTV and haslifted the partners' combined holdings to 83%. However, Disney is not taking management control of the company ...
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Warlords wins best film anddirector at Golden Horse awards
Peter Chan's Warlords secured best film and best director at this year's Golden Horse Awards held in Taiwan on Saturday night (Dec 6). Chan's epic was a frontrunner with twelve nominations this year, securing three including best visual effects. Taiwan blockbuster Cape No. 7, the second most nominated film with ...
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The Black Balloon rises above the rest at Australian AFI awards
The Black Balloon won best film at the 50th annual Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards in Melbourne. Producer Tristram Miall accepted the award, surrounded by many of his collaborators, several of whom had already been up on stage. They included Elissa Down, who won best director and best original screenplay ...
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Hong Sang-soo to take part in Jeonju Digital Project
Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo is participating in Jeonju Digital Project 2009, the trifecta omnibus produced by Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF). In an early announcement on the project, JIFF announced Hong's short film Disappointment completed production last month and is now in post-production.The film is set in Jeonju (a ...
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Lin, Pan share top prize at Taipei projects market
Lin Yu-hsien's road movie 2menwalking and Pan Baochang's thriller Parkour Boys shared the $15,000 top prize at the fourth edition of the Film & TV Co-Production Meeting (formerly called the Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion) held from December 2-4. Lin's film is about a father and son who embark ...
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China's Orange Sky appoints Yu as vice general manager
Daniel Yu, former COO of Andy Lau's Focus Films, has joined Beijing-based Orange Sky Entertainment as vice general manager of Orange Sky Zhihong Film and TV Productions. Hewill be over-seeing project development in his new role, an area he has been working on for various entitiesfor the past year in ...
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Japan's Toei to invest $45m in digital film facilities
Toei Studios has announced details of its plans to construct fully digital film facilities in Tokyo's Nerima ward. Budgeted at $45m (Y4.2bn), construction of the studios will be in the Oizumi district of Tokyo's Nerima ward. They will be located on the same lot that the original Shinko Kinema Tokyo ...
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Adelaide film festival unveils jury and local premieres
Laurence Kardish, a senior film curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), will preside over the jury at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF), which opens in South Australia on February 19. His fellow jurors are Japanese director Naomi Kawase, festival directors Bill Gosden (New Zealand) and Hannah McGill ...
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Tulpan takes Golden Peacock at IFFI in Goa
The 39th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) closed on December 2 in Goa with Sergei Dvortsevoy's Kazakhstan film Tulpan picking up the top prize of best film. The Golden Peacock award is accompanied by a cash prize of $80,000 (Rs4m). Dvortsevoy also took the Silver Peacock ...
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Warner Bros to release Dark Knight on VOD before DVD in Korea
Warner Brothers Digital Distribution in Korea will put Dark Knight out on video-on-demand (VOD) Dec 5 - two weeks before the DVD release, making it the first time a major Hollywood studio gives a blockbuster a 'pre-DVD VOD' release.Dark Knight will go on IPTV providers Mega TV - owned by ...
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Australia records a boom in numbers of productions
A record-breaking 41 films went into production in Australia in the 12 months up to June 30, according to statistics released today by Screen Australia. This wasmore productionsthan in any other annual period for at least 20 years.Cameras rolled on five international co-productions, 29 wholly Australianproductionsand seven foreign films.- Five ...