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Savage to star with Ge You in Chinese drama Gasp
US actor John Savage (The Thin Red Line) is joining Chinese star Ge You (The Banquet) in the cast of Chinese comedy drama Gasp, which is being directed by scriptwriter-turned-director Zhen Zhong. Hong Kong actress Kelly Lin, Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin and China's Liu Hua will also star in the ...
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Stylejam sells Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window in UK
Japanese independent Stylejam has sold director Yosuke (Tora) Fujita's comic love triangle story Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window Film for the UK. Stylejam also sold two films starring Joe Odagiri - humorous wedding feud story Then Summer Came to Cinema Valley for Korea, and Satoshi (In The Pool) ...
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Serenity Entertainment buys Paco for Taiwan from Showgate
Japan's Showgate has sold the hit 3D and live action film Paco And The Magical Book to Serenity Entertainment for Taiwan. Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories Of Matsuko), the film has an all-star cast including Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo), Koji Yakusho (Babel), and Anna Tsuchiya (Sakuran, Kamikaze Girls) - ...
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Indian shoot for $1.9m Australian drama The Waiting City
Shooting begins in Calcutta this week on he Waiting City, a $1.9m drama directed by Claire McCarthy and produced by Jamie Hilton.Radha Mitchell (Melinda And Melinda), Joel Edgerton (Kinky Boots) and newcomer Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen) are the Australian cast who begin filming on Tuesday. ...
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CJ Entertainment sells Mother to France, Thirst to UK
CJ Entertainment has pre-sold Bong Joon-ho's Mother to Diaphana for France and Park Chan-wook's Thirst to Palisades Tartan for UK. Diaphana previously distributed CJ's Secret Sunshine which it picked up immediately before last year's Cannes - where it took best actress for Jeon Do-yeon, opening it in France on 65 ...
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Gold View returns to homeland with The Clone
Japanese sales and production company Gold View has picked up the Wim Wenders executive-produced film The Clone Returns To The Homeland for international sales.When astronaut Kohei Takahara dies in the line of duty he is resurrected as a clone, but he and those around him find they face unexpected spiritual ...
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Sahamongkol closes deals for Ong Bak 2, Chocolate
Thailand's Sahamongkol has sold Tony Jaa's upcoming Ong Bak 2 and hit action flick Chocolate to Madman for Australia and New Zealand, CP Digital for Russia/CIS, and Mirax for Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Czech Republic.Star TV also picked up all rights for Chocolate in Taiwan. Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet ...
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Content takes on Japanese Oscar submission Departures
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Yojiro Takita's Departures, which is Japan's submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. Departures (Okuribito) is already a box-office hit in Japan, taking more than 3m admissions ($25m) and it also won Best Film at the Montreal Wrold Film Festival in August. Masahiro ...
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Fine Cut picks up sales on Break Away and Searching For The Elephant
Seoul-based Fine Cut has picked up international sales rights to LeeSong Hee-il's Break Away and SK Jhung's Searching For The Elephant (working title) starring heartthrob Jang Hyuk (Volcano High).Break Away is LeeSong's second feature after the controversial gay drama No Regret, which was at Pusan and Berlin.Based on true events, ...
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Arclight adds Australian ghost story Lake Mungo
Arclight Films has added the Australian ghost story Lake Mungo to its AFM sales slate and is exploring a US remake.Lake Mungo is screening at the market and tells of the paranormal activity that plagues a family following the drowning of a teenage girl.Joel Anderson wrote and directed the Darclight ...
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Hyde Park works with Toonz, Gang Of 7 for Santa Claus
Hyde Park Entertainment and Singapore based Toonz Entertainment andLA-based Gang Of 7 Animation are collaborating on the CGI animatedfeature The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.Based on The Wizard Of Oz creator Frank L Baum's novel of the samename, the story charts Father Christmas' life from infancy toadulthood, focusing on ...
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Korea's So to star opposite Zhang in Sophie's Revenge
Koreanactor Ji-sub So (Rough Cut) will be the leading man opposite Zhang Ziyi in romantic comedy Sophie's Revenge, which is being co-produced by Korea's CJ Entertainment and China's Perfect World Culture. Zhang will play a cartoonist/writer Sophie who falls for a surgeon named Jeff (Ji-sub So). But an actress named ...
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Details of Japanese Sideways remake emerge
Details regarding the Japanese remake of Oscar-winning 2004 film Sideways have been announced by co-producers 20th Century Fox Japan and Fuji TV. Popular character actor Fumiyo Kohinata will take on the lead role played by Paul Giamatti in the original film. He will be joined by Katsuhisa Namase, Oscar nominee ...
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Japan's Rumble Fish files for bankruptcy
Japanese feature film and TV production company Rumble Fish Inc has filed for bankruptcy. The news was reported today by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd (TSR) credit reporting agency, the oldest such agency in Japan.Rumble Fish was established in 2001 by producer Takenori Sento. The company was behind several of Shinji ...
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Jinga Films sells Everything to Ruscico for Russia/CIS
UK-based sales company Jinga Films continues its AFM deals by selling all rights for Russia and CIS for Richard Hawkins' Everything to Ruscico.Ray Winstone stars in the thriller/drama.Jinga has also closed an eight-film package deal with Viswaas Films for India and Malaysia. Films in that package include Tom Tyrwhitt's youth ...
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In Focus: Australia opens for film business (Part 1)
Australian producers just had to sit on the ground at Cannes this year and a queue would form,' recalls leading Melbourne film lawyer Bruce Menzies.He is only half joking. Thanks to the introduction of one of the most generous financial incentives in the world, Australian film-makers now rank among the ...
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Mirovision, M to partner on Youth Is Reckless
Korea's Mirovision is partnering with M Production to produce Youth IsReckless, by Lee Myung-se, the director of the visual extravaganza M,martial arts mystery Duelists, and crime action film Nowhere To Hide.Youth Is Reckless is based on the Book of Five Rings, a classic samuraitreatise by Miyamoto Musashi, which Lee was ...
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M-Line pre-sells Kitchen to Japan's Showgate
New Korean sales outfit M-Line has pre-sold romantic drama Kitchen to Showgate for Japan.The $1.2m film is due for a February 2009 release in Korea. Starring Ju Ji-hun, from the pan-Asian TV series Princess Hour, the film follows members of a suicide club who end up in a gruesome survival ...
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Lightning dives into Prodigy's The Reef
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired worldwiderights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Prodigy Movies' survivalthriller The Reef.Lightning co-presidents Rich Goldberg and Richard Guardian are takingtheir first executive producers on Andrew Traucki's tale of a group ofholidaymakers in Australia who are terrorised by a giant shark aftertheir boat capsizes. Principal ...
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Shochiku sells Tadashi Mori's Panda Diary to Wild Bunch
Japanese entertainment conglomerate Shochiku has sold documentary PandaDiary to Wild Bunch for France, Benelux, Germany and Italy.Directed by Tadashi Mori, the documentary follows the lives ofendangered pandas who have never lived in the wild forest. Shot in theChendu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China and AdventureWorld in Japan, ...