All Asia articles – Page 478
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Adams relocates to Australia to produce studio-financed films
Former Participant Productions executive Chris Adams is planning to relocate from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, and expand his business interests to encompass financing features developed by Melbourne-based actor, writer and filmmaker Steve Kearney. 'Steve is the creative genius and I'm the deal maker,' said Adams, who is American. Asked ...
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Japan's Toy-be changes names, launches Singapore co-production
Japanese film and media company Toy-be Entertainment is being renamed and relaunched as Adways Entertainment Co, following a capital alliance with Tokyo-listed mobile and internet advertising agency Adways Group in August. Adways Entertainment has also announced the first project for its 2008/2009 slate, which is a Japan-Singapore co-production tentatively titled ...
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Reliance subsidiary signs video deal with Paramount
India's Big Music & Home Entertainment, owned by Reliance ADAG group, has entered into a video licensing deal with Paramount Home Entertainment for library titles from Paramount and DreamWorks in India and Sri Lanka. Titles included in the deal include classics such as the Godfather films, The Ten Commandments and ...
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International sales for Chinese Lala's Gun picked up by Three Dots
Taipei-based Three Dots Entertainment picked up international sales rights to Chinese director Ning Jingwu's Lala's Gun, at the annual Beijing Screenings held last week.The deal marks the first time that Three Dotsis handlinginternational sales for a film directed by a mainland Chinese filmmaker.Three Dots follows Peggy Chiao's Arclight Films as ...
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Korea's Gwangju Citygets promotionboost from October,Metafive
Hong Kong-based October Pictures and Korean visual effects company Metafive Art, Science And Magic have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOU) with South Korea's Gwangju Metropolitan City to promote Gwangju as an Asian hub for international CGI projects. The two companies are also collaborating with Kinomotive Studio - founded by ...
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Pusan tips Korean producers' projects, co-production conference
Pusan's Asian Film Market has announced five projects for its Korean Producers In Focus (KPIF) and events for the Busan 2008 International Co-production Conference, in partnership with the Producers Guild of Korea (PGK). With the goal of supporting the ailing Korean film industry, the KPIF will showcase producers and their ...
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PVC-1 takes top prize at Bangkok's Golden Kinnarees
Colombian feature PCV-1, directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, took the grand prix in the main competition of the Bangkok International Film Festival's Golden Kinnaree Awards on Sunday night. The three-person jury, comprising South-East Asian filmmakers Eric Khoo, Lav Diaz and Aditya Assarat, applauded the film for its 'raw, original and relentless ...
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Elissa Down wins Australian Directors award for The Black Balloon
The director of The Black Balloon, Elissa Down, has won the highest feature film accolade for 2008 from her peers at the Australian Directors Guild (AWG). Click here for review.But the film's producer, Tristram Miall, collected the award on her behalf at a dinner last night (Saturday) in Sydney because ...
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Thai Entertainment Expo wraps brave but quiet first edition
The first ever Thailand Entertainment Expo (Sep 24-28) wrapped on Sunday, after a slightly busier weekend as the event was opened to the public, but overall business and buyers were thin on the ground. Organised by Thailand's Department of Export Promotion (DEP) and Ministry of Commerce, the five-day event brought ...
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Preview: Pusan International Film Festival
Screen's team looks forward to this year's Pusan. Click on reports for more.Pusan: Asia's Sundance'Pusan Markets: A launch pad for Asian projects Profile: Pusan Promotion PlanInterview with Pusan festival director Kim Dong-hoSPECIAL REPORT: Is Asia credit-proof'
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Maggie Q heads cast of Tian's Warrior And The Wolf
Maggie Q has been cast to play the lead role in Chinese Fifth Generation director Tian Zhuangzhuang's epic drama The Warrior And The Wolf, which is being produced by Hong Kong's Bill Kong and partners from Japan, China and SingaporeShe will star opposite Japanese actor Joe Odagiri (Tokyo Tower, Shinobi) ...
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Chinese domestic films reach record 57% market share
Chinese authorities have announced that the territory's box office revenues reached $347.21m (RMB2.368bn) up until the end of August, which is a 31% increase from the same period in 2007. In addition, the market share of local films (including co-production films) was much higher than in the past, accounting for ...
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In Focus: Is Asia Crunch proof'
On a macro level, the credit crunch is only just starting to bite in Asia, a year after North America and Europe, but is not expected to have the same impact. Most pundits agree the major economies of the region will continue to grow in 2009, albeit more slowly than ...
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Dream Weaver selected as China's Oscar entry
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has announced that it has selected documentary Dream Weaver - Beijing 2008 as the country's contender for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards. It is the first time China has chosen a documentary for the category. The film, produced by ...
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Hong Kong submits Painted Skin as Oscar entry
Hong Kong has selected Gordon Chan's fantasy epic Painted Skin as the territory's contender for this year's foreign-language Oscar, the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong (FMFP) said at a press conference on Wednesday. 'We think this film has something very special,' FMFP chairman Crucindo Hung said. 'It ...
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Parking to open Taipei Golden Horse film festival
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is stepping outside the art house for its 30th edition. Taiwan's main film festival will introduce crowd pleasers alongside award-winning art house titles from the Berlin, Cannes and Venice film festivals under new programming director Patrick Jia, formerly a senior marketing publicist at the ...
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Magnet draws Thai martial arts hit Chocolate
Magnet, the recently launched genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to Thai martial arts action title Chocolate from Sahamongkolfilm International. Directed by Prachya Pinkaew (Ong Bak) and starring newcomer Jeeja Vismistananda, the film recently screened in the Midnight Madness section at Toronto and took the Audience ...
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Haruki Kadokawa returns to directing with Laughing Policeman
Famed Japanese film producer Haruki Kadokawa has returned to the director's chair after an 11-year absence. Kadokawa is currently shooting suspense drama Laughing Policeman, based on the first of Jo Sasaki's series of novels released by Kadokawa's publishing arm. The story depicts the internecine struggles of a corrupt police department. ...
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Gaga to handle sales of Shunji Iwai production Halfway
Gaga Communications has acquired world sales rights for high school drama Halfway, produced by famed director-producer Shunji Iwai (All About Lily Chou-Chou). Eriko Kitagawa makes her directing debut on the film and also wrote the screenplay. The story follows the trials and tribulations of a high school couple as their ...