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Family Ties, The Host triumph at Korea's Grand Bell awards
Kim Tae-yong's Family Ties won Best Film at South Korea 's Grand Bell Awards on Friday night (June 8). The dramatic comedy about a totally unconventional but non-dysfunctional family also garnered the award for Best Script for Kim and co-writer Sung Ki-young. Bong Joon-ho's sci-fi monster hit The Host, which ...
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Japan's Skip City digital fest unveils lineup
Japan's Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival has announced the lineup for its fourth edition. Competition features include Heartlines, directed by Angus Gibson (Mandela), Children Of The Moon, Climates, Without You, Steen Rasmussen's Skymaster - A Flying Family Fairytale, Maria's Navel, Skies Above The Landscape, Tangier, Paper Dolls, German-set Chinese ...
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Bollywood invades Yorkshire for IIFA weekend
The Indian film industry has invaded the UK's Yorkshire region for the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) awards, known as the Bollywood Oscars. The awards themselves will be given out Saturday night in Sheffield, but related events started Thursday and run during the four-day event in Leeds, Hull, Bradford and ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Sarkies' Out Of The Blue
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to Robert Sarkies' drama Out Of The Blue and will release the film later this summer.NZ Film has worldwide sales rights, and NZ Film's Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson negotiated the deal with Metrodome's Tom Stewart and Kate Falconer.NZ Film's Drumm also struck ...
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Naomi Kawase: force of nature
Naomi Kawase, director of Cannes award-winner The Mourning Forest, tells Jason Gray why the elements are on her side. A dense forest. A young woman follows a wild-haired old man as they struggle upwards through thick underbrush. They are covered in mud and sweat. The young woman helps the man ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival: going for growth
Shanghai is expanding market activities in 2007. Sen-lun Yu reports.Celebrating its 10th edition this year, the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), held June 16-24, is gradually expanding its film market and intends to demonstrate China's business potential.Aside from the Jin Jue Competition, the festival's main competitive section, and the Asian ...
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China: cheaper thrills
Faced with a rapidly expanding cinema sector, Chinese producers are looking to end their reliance on martial-arts epics. Sen-lun Yu looks at the new funds aiming to generate an upturn in cheaper commercial homegrown product. Chinese film-making may be best-known internationally for its eye-popping martial-arts films and its lavishly mounted ...
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Global Film Initiative buys US rights to Bet Collector
Global Film Initiative has taken all US rights to award-winning Filipino drama The Bet Collector (Kubrador). The deal was negotiated by French sales outfit Wide Management's Matteo Lovadina. After making its world premiere in Moscow last year, the picture has travelled to about 40 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards. ...
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Cineclick Asia announces slew of Cannes deals
Seoul-based seller Cineclick Asia has announced a raft of Cannes sales including a UK deal on Kim Jee-woon's The Good, The Bad And The Weird which went to Tartan Films. The film was previously sold to France's ARP during the market. Academy Award-winning Afghan director Siddiq Barmak's Opium War has ...
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Pathe picks up buzz titles from Cannes
Pathe has acquired rights to a quartet of buzz features from Cannes. Deals have been sealed for UK and French rights to Focus Features International's Blindness; UK rights to 2929 International's What Just Happened' and Fortissimo's Mama's Boy; and UK and French rights to Edko Films' Blood: The Last Vampire, ...
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Teeth Of Love sweeps inaugural Xian film festival
Zhuang Yuxin's Teeth Of Love picked up awards in three categories at the inaugural Xian Qujiang Film Festival for New Talents which wrapped in the Chinese city of Xian last night. The film, which follows the love stories of a Beijing woman through three stages of her life - as ...
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Shrek The Third to get digital-only release in China
As Shrek The Third stays in the top three at the US box office, Chinese state-owned film agencies have confirmed that it won't be released in China until late August, and will then only be given a digital release. According to China Film Digital Cinema Corp, the film will be ...
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Japan's Bandai Visual lines up Tamagotchi feature
Japanese video producer-distributor Bandai Visual has announced an animated feature film starring the popular tamagotchi virtual pets. The first feature foray for the franchise, entitled Eiga De Tojo! Tamagotchi Dokidoki! Uchu No Maigotchi!', is set for a December release through Toho. The production consortium includes Bandai Visual, WiZ, Toho, Asatsu-DK ...
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Toho-Towa unveils Universal release slate
Japanese distributor Toho-Towa has announced its upcoming slate of Universal Pictures releases. As previously announced, the third film in the Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Ultimatum, will be the first Universal release through Toho-Towa, the foreign film distribution arm of Toho Studios. Bourne will be released in November 2007, three months ...
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Fortissimo Cannes deals led by Live! and Pleasure Factory
Fortissimo Film Sales had a strong Cannes, with hot sellers including Tim Hamilton's comedy Mama's Boy, reality TV satire Live!, the Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones project Shine A Light, Singapore red-light story The Pleasure Factory and Bela Tarr's Competition Title The Man From London. Fortissimo co-chairman Wouter Barendrecht said: 'We ...
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Australia distributor to kick off theatrical runs with You Kill Me
Australia 's newest theatrical distributor, All Interactive Distribution, has picked up five titles and will make its first theatrical release, John Dahl's You Kill Me, in September. The US independent film, which is sold by Capitol Films, goes out in US cinemas later this month. It stars Ben Kingsley and ...
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Dai Nipponjin beats 'Beat' Takeshi at Japan's box office
Comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto's debut film Dai Nipponjin has beaten veteran helmer Takeshi Kitano's Kantoku Banzai! at the Japanese box office. Dai Nipponjin earned $1.86m (Y226.9m) to grab the number two position behind Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End while Kantoku Banzai! (Glory To The Filmmaker!) grossed $333,501 (Y40.6m), just ...
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Pusan film festival to launch financing, distribution arms
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) is set to start its own production venture capital firm and a distribution arm. At a provisional council meeting at the Busan City Hall yesterday, the PIFF organising committee approved the establishment of a venture capital firm tentatively called the Korean equivalent of 'Asia ...
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Showbox and Freestyle unveil plans for D-War's US release
South Korea 's Showbox Mediaplex has announced plans to release the effects-laden creature feature D-War on 1,500 screens in the US, through Freestyle Releasing. Showbox says the film is likely to open in August and see Labour Day weekend box office as well. Freestyle previously released The Illusionist in the ...
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Joost to host Bollywood content from New York's Saavn
Internet television service Joost has signed a deal with New York-based film, music and TV show packager Saavn for the Internet distribution of Bollywood music videos from the Saavn library. Initially, Joost users worldwide will be able to choose from around 150 clips from Bollywood movies featuring songs such as ...