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Movie Plus, Xinhua Media team for live-action Mulan
Canada's Movie Plus, China Film Group and Beijing and LA-based Xinhua Media Entertainment (XME) are joining forces to co-produce a $30m live-action version of the Chinese classic folk take Mulan. The film is expected to start shooting in China in the first half of next year. XME head David Lee ...
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Korea's Fine Cut sells ET, Beastie Boys to Japan
South Korea's Fine Cut has closed a slew of deals in the aftermath of Pusan's Asian Film Market, led by recently-released comedy Our School's E.T., directed by K.C. Park (She's On Duty), which sold to Fine Films for Japan. The company also closed on the few remaining territories for serial ...
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Oshii, Production I.G develop animated samurai film
Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii and his regular backer Production I.G are developing an animated feature film based on the life of samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Entitled Miyamoto Musashi: Soken Ni Haseru Yume (Musashi Miyamoto: The Dream Of Riding With Double Swords), the film will be directed by regular Oshii production collaborator ...
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Shaw Brothers calls off saledue to financial crisis
Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers has announced to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that is has ended all talks to sell a majority stake in the company, citing the current global financial crisis. The announcement marks the end of a bid by Chinese property developer Yeung Kwok-keung to buy a 75% ...
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India's NDTV Lumiere launches world cinema channel
After announcing its intention to launch a 24-hour world cinema channel earlier this year, NDTV Lumiere has given the channel a soft launch on October 10 and is gearing up for the official launch in late November or early December 2008. Established as a joint venture between broadcaster NDTV, Sunil ...
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Icon buys UK rights to Fraser's Dean Spanley
Icon Films has signed for the highly imaginative and whimsical period film after seeing it last month at the world premiere in Toronto. Kathleen Drumm, head of sales agent New Zealand Film, says an offer for US rights is on the table but won't elaborate.Drumm negotiated the deal with head ...
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Salon to co-produce sequel to Eat Drink Man Woman
Hong Kong's Salon Films is co-producing a slate of films with pan-Asian partners including a sequel to Ang Lee's 1994 Eat Drink Man Woman with producer Hsu Li-kong's Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.The $2.9m contemporary drama will be co-written by Hsu, who was a producer on the original. The planned cast ...
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AMPCO, Salon and Hengdian unite for Sino-Ozco-productions
Australia's Adelaide Motion Picture Company (AMPCO), Hong Kong's Salon Films and Hengdian Film Productions from China's Zhejiang Province are forming a China-Australia co-production alliance. The three companies signed a Memorandum Of Understanding in Hengdian in Zhejiang province to shoot three movies starting from December. The first film will be family ...
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Mikhalkov andChen receive Kurosawa award
Russian actor-director Nikita Mikhalkov and Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige have received this year's Akira Kurosawa Award. The announcement was made by the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).Awarded annually for lifetime achievements in film directing, the trophy carries with it a cash prize of $50,000. The award will be presented at ...
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Scarecrows, Naked Of Defenses pick up Pusan awards
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) wraps tonight (Oct 10) with the top New Currents Award going ex aequo to Roh Gyeong-tae's Land Of Scarecrows and Masahide Ichii's Naked Of Defenses. Headed by actress/filmmaker Anna Karina, the New Currents Jury for first and second feature films from Asia lauded ...
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Preview: Tokyo International Film Festival
Despite its size and status as Japan's only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (Fiapf) accredited event, the Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has sometimes been overlooked outside Japan.But as Tiff enters its 21st edition (October 18-26), a new mission statement together with Asia's growing interconnection is bringing the centrepiece ...
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Moment In June to open World Film Festival of Bangkok
Thai drama A Moment In June, directed by Nattapong O Wongtrinetrakul, will open this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok (Oct 24-Nov 1), while Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light will close the event. A Moment In June focuses on a group of individuals in modern Thai society and is screening ...
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Bigfoot strides into US theatrical distribution
US-Asian production and finance company Bigfoot Entertainment is entering US theatrical distribution with the release of its horror feature Midnight Movie on October 17. Produced by Bigfoot CEO Kacy Andrews, Liam Finn and Jacques Thelemaque, the film marks the directorial debut of Jack Messitt from a screenplay written by Mark ...
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Painted Skin heads record-breaking holiday week in China
Box office during the seven-day National Day holiday period in mainland China reached a record $24.85m (RMB170m), according to figures released yesterday, which is a 220% increase on the same period last year. Gordon Chan's fantasy drama Painted Skin, Benny Chan's action thriller Connected and 3D movie Journey To The ...
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Pusan reviews
Screen critics review key films at this year's Pusan International Film Festival in Korea.Click on the title to see review:Awaking From A Dream (Freddy Mas Franqueza)Breathless (Yang Ik-june)Da Da's Dance (Zhang Huan)Dim Sum Funeral (Anna Chi)The Gift To Stalin (Rustem Abdrashev)Himalaya, Where The Wind Dwells (Jeon Soo-il) Miao Miao (Cheng ...
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Japanese actor Ken Ogata dies aged 71
71-year-old Japanese actor Ken Ogata died on October 5, local news reported today. The exact cause of death is unknown, but Ogata had been battling liver cancer. A private funeral was held by close relatives at a temple in Tokyo on Tuesday morning. Born in Tokyo in 1937, Ogata began ...