All Asia articles – Page 526
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Asian Film Market unveils Star Summit Asia line-up
As part of the Pusan International Film Festival's Asian Film Market, Star Summit Asia has selected 14 actors to participate in the second year of the talent showcase (Oct 8 -11). Launched last year with the aim of invigorating pan-Asian co-productions by supporting talent management and actor exchanges, the Summit ...
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Sony, Eros to co-finance slate of Hindi films
Sony Pictures Entertainment and global Bollywood producer-distributor Eros International plan to co-invest in a slate of Hindi films, to be released in India and around the world. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreement, Sony and Eros will jointly develop, produce and acquire multiple films for the new slate. Sony ...
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Cayzer appointed as Ausfilm chairman
Ausfilm, the organisation that markets Australia's filmmaking talent to the world, has appointed a new chairman. Martin Cayzer, managing director of Panavision Australia, will chair Ausfilm for a two-year term. It should be a lively term, as the country is on track for a record level of foreign film and ...
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Turkey's Eurasia fest to close with Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Turkey's 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival, which will be held concurrently with the 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Oct 19-28), has selected Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett, as the closing film and also unveiled its competition line-up. Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, which won the top ...
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Japan selects I Just Didn't Do It as Oscar entry
Masayuki Suo's I Just Didn't Do It has been selected as Japan 's official entry to the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan announced Friday. I Just Didn't Do It follows the struggles of a young man, played by Ryo Kase (Letters From Iwo ...
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Rule Number One starts shooting with change of investors
Kelvin Tong's horror thriller Rule Number One is set to start principal photography in Hong Kong next Wednesday (September 19), making him the first Singapore director to cross over to mainstream Hong Kong cinema. Two Singaporean production outfits - MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Scorpio East Pictures - and Hong Kong ...
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A match made in Bollywood
A Chinese-language, partially studio-backed film, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, may have just walked off with the top prize from Venice, but these days the US studios seem more intent on learning Hindi than Mandarin Chinese.Over the past few months, the studios have announced a string of local-language production deals in ...
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Cargo 200 (Gruz 200)
Dir: Alexey Balabanov, Russia 2007, 86minsAlexey Balabanov's eleventh feature is one of his bleakest. Set in provincial Russia in 1984 as the USSR enters its death throes, it portrays a society that is sickly, violent and cynical. The title refers to the name given to corpses of Russian soldiers being ...
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Beirut Film Festival cancelled
This year's Beirut International Film Festival, due to run Oct 3-10, has been cancelled. 'The presidential elections are coming up and this is the most precarious and unstable time for us,' festival director Colette Naufal told Screendaily. 'The limbo now that means it's very difficult to plan - if the ...
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Tokyo Filmex to close with Lee's Secret Sunshine
Tokyo Filmex has announced that Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine will be the closing film of this year's edition (Nov 17-25). Additionally, Lee will serve as the head of the competition jury. The film won the best actress award at Cannes this year for Jeon Do-yeon's performance. Earlier this week, the ...
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MegaStar Media opens Vietnam's biggest multiplex
MegaStar Media last night officially opened its first cinema in Ho Chi Minh City, which is also the biggest in Vietnam, as part of its continuous efforts in redefining the country's exhibition landscape. Vietnam's minister of culture, sports and tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh, was among the guests at the gala ...
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Tokyo Project Gathering unveils 38 projects
The organisers of the third Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) have unveiled the 38 projects that will take part in this year's edition (Oct 21-24). The financing and co-production market will take place at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex at the same time as the TIFFCOM contents market and the Tokyo International ...
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We Are Together finds a home Down Under
Rialto Distribution has acquired the theatrical and home video rights for documentary feature, We Are Together (Thina Simunye) for both Australia and New Zealand.The deal was negotiated by Rialto's CEO, Kelly Rogers and by Annie Roney from ro*co films international on behalf of the producers, Rise films.Rialto's Rogers said, 'We ...
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Eros to release Om Shanti Om on 2,000 screens
Eros International is preparing its widest ever release for Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om, which will open on more than 2,000 screens worldwide on November 9. Produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, the film stars Bollywood's number one star, Shah Rukh Khan. It also marks the debut of model Deepika Padukone. ...
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Before The Rains
Dir: Santosh Sivan US/India. 2007. 98minsA bittersweet journey from blinkered loyalty to rueful independence, Before The Rains captures the crumbling of British rule in 1930s India through a doomed love affair and its tragic consequences. In its more obvious moments it strays perilously close to the conventions of romantic fiction ...
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Sydney film fest launches international competition
In June 2008, the Sydney Film Festival will become the first in Australia to have an official FIAPF-approved competition, organisers announced today. The New South Wales state government has committed nearly $1.8m (A$2m) additional funding over the next four years. Twelve features will be in competition, judged by a jury ...
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Blood Brothers (Tian Tang Kou)
Dir: Alexi Tan, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, 2007. 95minsThe closing film at the Venice film festival, Blood Brothers is a dark gangster fable set in 1930s Shanghai - and a stylish but hollow debut for John Woo protege Alexi Tan. For all the film's lush cinematography, spot-on period detail and all-star Asian ...
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Film Financing Circle announcedfor Abu Dhabi Festival
Organisers of Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) have announced details of the accompanying Film Financing Circle (FFC), which takes place at the Emirates Palace hotel, the festival centre, October 15-17. 'Since the conception of the festival, I have wanted to offer an arena where global ...
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China Clipper to fly with China's Hengdian, Canada's Long Tale
Vancouver-based Long Tale Entertainment has signed with Chinese production colossus Hengdian Studios for the $30m Canada-China co-production China Clipper.Long Tale's Harry Sutherland put the package together with US MoviePlus, the LA-arm of worldwide film finance entity set up by Stuart Little producer Steve Waterman and Chris Brough, founder of Vancouver's ...
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Korea selectsSecret Sunshine as foreign-language Oscar entry
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has chosen Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine as South Korea 's submission to the Academy Awards' best foreign-language film category. The film was previously in competition at this year's Cannes festival, where it garnered the best actress award for Jeon Do-yeon. KOFIC announced that a jury ...