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Warner Bros signs Hong Kong VoD deal with Video Online
Start-up video-on-demand operator VideoOnline Communications has signed a multi-year VoD and subscription VoD agreement with Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) for Hong Kong rights to all current feature-length films in addition to hundreds of library titles. The agreement allows VideoOnline to offer legal downloads of Warner Bros content through ...
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Hong Kong's first IMAX cinema to open with Panda Adventure
Hong Kong 's first IMAX cinema, the seven-screen UA MegaBox, is set to open in June withthe screening of large-format title China: The Panda Adventure. The 50-minute film is being screened to tie in with the 10-year anniversary of Hong Kong 's reunification with China and the arrival of pandas ...
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Kitaro sets opening week box office record for Shochiku
Live-action creature feature Kitaro has become producer-distributor Shochiku's highest-grossing first week release ever. Released on April 28 on 339 screens, Kitaro earned $8.5m (Y1.02bn), achieving the standard Y1bn mark of a box office hit faster than any previous release in the studio's history. Kitaro opened in the number two position, ...
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Mandarin finds Tsui Hark's Missing on Cannes slate
Hong Kong 's Mandarin Films Distribution has added the latest picture from Tsui Hark, romantic thriller Missing, to its Cannes slate. The film features a hot cast of young Asian actors including Lee Sin-je, Isabella Leong, Chang Chen and rising Chinese star Guo Xiao Dong. Produced, directed and written by ...
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Capitol strikes UK , Australian deal with Lionsgate for The Edge Of Love
Lionsgate has taken UK and Australian rights to John Maybury's The Edge Of Love, previously known as The Best Time Of Our Lives. Capitol Films is handling sales on the project, which is starting principal photography this week. The film is shooting in Wales before moving to London and Pinewood ...
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Australian government radically overhauls film sector
The Australian government has announced the most fundamental structural and financing shake-up of Australian film for nearly 20 years. As expected, and as proposed by the industry itself, a tax rebate is to be introduced for producers from July 1 this year. It will allow filmmakers to claim back 40% ...
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Hong Kong's Johnnie To splits from Milkyway Image
Leading Hong Kong director Johnnie To is parting ways from Milkyway Image, the production outfit he founded with fellow filmmaker Dennis Law, which is listed on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). To is paying $3.3m (HK$26m) to acquire two Milkyway Image subsidiaries - Milkyway Image Hong Kong and Luminous ...
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InnoForm snaps up Singapore rights to Chinese trio
Further positioning itself as a major buyer, InnoForm Media has acquired Singapore rights to three major Chinese titles - Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords from ARM Distribution, Benny Chan's Invisible Target from Universe Films Distribution and John Woo-produced Blood Brothers from CMC Entertainment. InnoForm aims to join the day-and-date pan-Asian ...
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Amritraj, Hyde Park set Asian ambitions
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has created an Asian division Hyde Park Asia with ambitions to produce both international and local films in the region while securing local backing from various institutions and investors.Amritraj says he already has an office opened in India and is planning to open one shortly ...
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Korea to host Cinema Digital Seoul film festival in July
A new film festival was unveiled in Seoul today - the Cinema Digital Seoul 2007 Film Festival (CinDi 2007) - which has secured sponsorship from the CJ Culture Foundation and Korean Culture & Arts Foundation. Korean Academy of Film Arts director and a digital filmmaker, Park Ki-Yong, jointly heads CinDi ...
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Jeonju's top award goes to Ying Liang's The Other Half
The eighth Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) wrapped its nine-day run today with the top Woosuk Award going to The Other Half, directed by Ying Liang. Local distributor Sponge also picked up Koji Hagiuda's Genius from Bitters End at the fest's industry screenings. The Indie Vision jury on awarding The ...
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India's PNC, Motion Pixel Corp team for five-picture slate
Indian media and entertainment company Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) has signed a five-picture deal with Florida-based animation house Motion Pixel Corporation (MPC) and its animation studio Estudio Flex in Costa Rica. The deal covers five 3D animated full-length feature films, which will feature Indian and international actors, songs and dances ...
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Double Edge to co-finance two US films with Inferno
Taiwan and US-based Double Edge Entertainment will co-finance with Inferno Distribution the psychological thriller The Heaven Project, which has started principal photography and stars Paul Walker and Piper Perabo.The company also co-financed with Inferno the family comedy Smother starring Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler and Dax Shepard, which is currently in ...
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Easternlight takes on Three Kingdoms for sales at Cannes
Easternlight Films will handle international sales at Cannes on Hong Kong director Daniel Lee's martial arts epic Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon, based on the popular Chinese classical novel The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms.Andy Lau and Maggie Q star in the story of a common man who ...
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New Yorker Films gorges on Still Life for US
New Yorker Films has picked up Jia Zhang-Ke's Venice 2006 Golden Lion winner Still Life and has scheduled an autumn platform release in New York City followed by a nationwide roll-out.Still Life chronicles the changes that sweep through an ancient town when a hydro-dam project forces families to uproot and ...
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Filipino Oscar-contender finds US home
TLA Releasing has acquired North American non-theatrical, video, and select TV rights from Unitel Pictures International to Filipino director Aureaus Solito's The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros.The distributor plans a DVD release on Aug 28 on the story of a gay pre-teen growing up with petty thieves in the slums of ...
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Spider-Man 3 makes record-breaking opening
Spider-Man 3 grossed a sensational estimated $29.15m in its first day in 16 international territories on May 1, eclipsing the opening day results of the first two episodes in the same territories. Ten of the territories (eight Asian, seven European and Egypt) generated record opening or single day marks, ...
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First Pakistani film to shoot in India opens on home turf
The first ever Pakistani film shot entirely in India, Javaid Fazal's The Return, was released on April 27 in its home country, where it played to packed houses over the first three days. Producer Shoab Alam said that the entire music and post-production work was also completed in Mumbai. He ...
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No Mercy For The Rude takes audience prize at Udine
Udine's Far East Film Festival wrapped its ninth edition Saturdayas organizers lauded the growth and appeal of a once niche festivalthat has edged its way to become Europe's most complete sampling ofAsian cinema.The non-competitive festival announced audience award -winnersSaturday night. South Korean noir title No Mercy For The Rude directedby ...
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Luhrmann's Australia starts production in Sydney
Filming started today in Sydney on the long-planned romantic action adventure Australia , Baz Luhrmann's fourth film and his third with 20th Century Fox. The cast is headed by Nicole Kidman, as English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, and Hugh Jackman, the rough hewn cattle-drover who initially repulses her, then catches ...