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Second Naresuan film conquers Thai box office
Following the success of the first instalment of Thai historical epic, The Legend Of King Naresuan, the second film in the trilogy, Declaration Of Independence, stormed the Thai box office on its four-day opening weekend, raking in a whopping $3.9m (130m baht) in Bangkok. The second instalment, also directed by ...
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Japanese box office hit Dororo spawns two sequels
TBS producer Takashi Hirano has announced that he plans to make two sequels of Japanese box office hit Dororo. The sequels will be filmed next year in the back-to-back style of Lord Of The Rings, with a tentative release set for 2009. The combined budget for the films will be ...
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Cyborg to close next month's SXSW festival
The closing night film for the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival will be Park Chan-wook's new film, I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK.Fresh from its European premiere at the recent Berlinale, Cyborg will have its North American premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival when it brings ...
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Neo's Just Follow Law has strong opening in Singapore
Singaporean director Jack Neo's Just Follow Law had a strong but not record-breaking four-day opening during the Chinese New Year holiday, scooping $421,000 from 35 prints for second place in the chart. Ghost Rider topped the chart with $678,000 on 39 prints over the four days, while Hong Kong drug ...
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Hong Kong film festival to feature 16 world premieres
This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival will feature 16 world premieres as part of an expanded line-up that reflects its new industry and international ambitions. Among the world premieres are Indonesian director Riri Riza's Three Days To Forever; Fruit Chan's 30-minute short Xian Story; Things We Do When We ...
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Directors sign up for Cannes' 60th-anniversary shorts
The Cannes Film Festival has officially announced the names of the directors taking part in Chacun Son Cinema, a feature which will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the event this May. International filmmakers will shoot a three-minute short which will then be compiled to make up the feature to be ...
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London Australian Film Festival to open with Jindabyne
The 13th London Australian Film Festival will open March 15 with Ray Lawrence's Jindabyne and close on March 25 with Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes. The 10-day event returns to the Barbican to present 25 new features, including for the first time all the 2006 Australian Film Institute award winners. ...
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Chinese authorities ban film shooting in nature reserves
China has issued a new regulation that bans film shooting in nature reserves, scenic spots and at sites of historical interest across the country, according to state-owned news agency Xinhua. People who violate the regulation - issued by four government departments including the State Environmental Protection Administration and the Ministry ...
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BR Films sets March 9 Indian release for Mehta's Water
Distributor BR Films have scheduled the Indian release of Deepa Mehta's Oscar nominated Water for March 9. Ravi Chopra of BR Films confirmed that the company would be releasing up to 100 prints nationally with a focus on multiplexes. The controverisal film had originally been slated for a release in ...
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Chinese film takes Golden Bear
Chinese director Wang Quan'an had an ideal start for the Chinese New Year by winning this year's Golden Bear for his third feature Tuya's Marriage (Tu ya de hun shi) on the eve of the Year of the Pig.The tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in ...
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Hula Girls takes top prize at Japanese Oscars
Lee Sang-il's Hula Girls was named best picture of 2006 at the 30th Japan Academy Awards, which took place on Friday night (Feb 16).The film picked up a total of four major prizes from 13 nominations, including best director for Lee Sang-il, best supporting actress for Yu Aoi and best ...
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India's BR Films sets March 9 release date for Water
Indian distributor BR Films has scheduled the local release of Deepa Mehta's Oscar-nominated Water on 100 prints nationwide, with a focus on multiplexes, on March 9. 'We decided to shift the release as we were not ready before. Now we have enough time to get to the consumer and the ...
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Italian box-office up massive 79.1% year-on-year; other regions struggle
Global box office takings of nine major territories collectively fell 9.7% year-on-year this week, pushed by dips in the French, Korean and North American markets, according to Screen International's Screen Index. France dropped by 32.6% compared to the same week last year despite new entries from studio Oscar-nominated films. Blood ...
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Berlinale to show Lost In Beijing in uncensored version
China's Li Yu's Lost In Beijing will have its world premiere tonight (Friday) in the Berlinale's official competition at the Berlinale Palast in the uncensored version after all. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com exclusively, festival director Dieter Kosslick announced: 'We are showing the film tonight in the version which the producer is ...
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Sony Classics gets North American rights for The Children Of Huang Shi
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Roger Spottiswoode's The Children Of Huang Shi. The epic tale is set in war-ravaged China in 1938. Production on the project ends today in Shanghai, with a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Arthur Cohn ...
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German-Indian film agreement signed in Berlin
Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, India's Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, and Germany's Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Nuemann signed a German-Indian film agreement in Berlin on Friday afternoon providing a legal framework for cooperation between producers from Germany ...
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World Cinema Fund casts its net wider
As of this summer, the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) will be open to projects by film-makers from South East Asia and the Caucasus in addition to the existing focus regions of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Central Asia. 'After the positive development of the WCF in the ...
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Studios offer triple punch of Ghost Rider, Good Shepherd and Hot Fuzz
A diverse trio of studio-distributed films make their international debuts this weekend, with Sony launching comic book-based action outing Ghost Rider and Universal opening spy drama The Good Shepherd and British comedy Hot Fuzz. Ghost Rider, with Nicolas Cage as the Marvel Comics title character, opens through Sony Pictures Releasing ...
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Indian drama Parzania faces unofficial ban in Gujarat
Rahul Dholakia's controversial drama Parzania has been unofficially banned in the state of Gujarat, where cinema owners have opted not to screen the film for fear of a political backlash from the ruling party. The English-language film, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika, is based on a true incident of the ...