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All Asia articles – Page 88
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NewsJia Zhangke returns to China’s Pingyao International Film Festival
Co-founder and former Venice director Marco Muller takes new role.
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NewsSouth Korea’s CJ ENM to invest $4.5bn in content over five years
The media giant is aiming to become more globally competitive with their films and TV series, as well as bolster their OTT platform TVing.
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News‘Two Distant Strangers’ star Andrew Howard to shoot ‘Kupu Kupu’ in Indonesia
Production on privately backed road movie scheduled to start on September 20 in Bali, Java.
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NewsKorea’s Bifan unveils NAFF project market line-up
The industry event will run entirely online from July 8-13.
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News‘F9’ scores $59m China opening day, races to $70m international
Records tumble in Asia, Middle East.
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NewsNetflix India director of original film departs
Srishti Behl Arya oversaw more than 35 original films since joining in May 2018,
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NewsChina box office: ‘Wrath Of Man’ grosses $17.5m in first week
Guy Ritchie action thriller took third place over the weekend behind local thrillers Cliff Walkers and Break Through The Darkness.
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NewsTaiwan authorities close Taipei cinemas as Covid cases start to climb
Cinemas had remained open since the start of the pandemic due to a low rate of infections and deaths.
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NewsChina box office: ‘Cliff Walkers’ overtakes ‘My Love’ during May Day holiday
Zhang Yimou’s spy thriller topped the May 7-9 weekend box office with $24.3m for a cumulative total of $117.5m.
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NewsArgentinian doc ‘Splinters’ wins top prize at Korea’s Jeonju film festival
Documentary ‘Landscapes Of Resistance’ and black comedy ‘Friends And Strangers’ also pick up awards.
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NewsDocaviv sets on-site format, Israeli Competition titles (exclusive)
The Oscar-qualifying festival will run in cinemas from July 1-10.
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NewsDisney+ Hotstar to launch in Malaysia with premieres of local films
Streamer has multi-year agreements with leading Malaysian studios, including Skop Productions and Primeworks Studios.
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NewsChina box office: ‘My Love’, ‘Cliff Walkers’ top May Day holiday weekend
Romcom starring Greg Hsu and Zhang Ruonan grosses $65.1m, while Zhang Yimou’s spy thriller takes $37.7m in opening three days.
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NewsVirtual AAPI festival kicks off with fundraising component to rectify racial inequality
Selections include The Paper Tigers, Minding The Gap, Abacus: Small Enough To Jail.
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NewsThailand’s Purin Pictures announces grant recipients for spring 2021
Fund for Southeast Asian projects is handing out grants to two fiction and two documentary projects in latest funding round.
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Reviews‘Faceless’: Hot Docs Review
Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy movement is seen through the eyes of four anonymous young activists
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Reviews‘I’m Wanita’: Hot Docs Review
Can a middle-aged Australian country singer finally get her big break?
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Reviews‘Cliff Walkers’: Review (formerly ‘Impasse’)
Zhang Yimou masters yet another genre with this 1930s-set spy potboiler
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Reviews‘Cafe By The Highway’: Moscow Review
A scarred young woman befriends a Russian man who is searching for a lost space capsule in rural China
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NewsChina box office: ‘Detective Conan’ stays on top in quiet weekend
Box office slumps ahead of busy May Day holiday weekend when several big local titles are scheduled for release.