All articles by Jean Noh – Page 70
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Serenity Entertainment buys Paco for Taiwan from Showgate
Japan's Showgate has sold the hit 3D and live action film Paco And The Magical Book to Serenity Entertainment for Taiwan. Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories Of Matsuko), the film has an all-star cast including Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo), Koji Yakusho (Babel), and Anna Tsuchiya (Sakuran, Kamikaze Girls) - ...
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CJ Entertainment sells Mother to France, Thirst to UK
CJ Entertainment has pre-sold Bong Joon-ho's Mother to Diaphana for France and Park Chan-wook's Thirst to Palisades Tartan for UK. Diaphana previously distributed CJ's Secret Sunshine which it picked up immediately before last year's Cannes - where it took best actress for Jeon Do-yeon, opening it in France on 65 ...
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UK, Thailand take on Ip Man from Mandarin
Mandarin Films has sold biopic Ip Man, about the celebrated kung-fu master of Bruce Lee, to Showbox Media Group for the UK and Rose Media & Entertainment for Thailand.Directed by Wilson Yip Wai-shun (Dragon Tiger Gate), the film stars Donnie Yen - star of recent hit Painted Skin and award-winning ...
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Gold View returns to homeland with The Clone
Japanese sales and production company Gold View has picked up the Wim Wenders executive-produced film The Clone Returns To The Homeland for international sales.When astronaut Kohei Takahara dies in the line of duty he is resurrected as a clone, but he and those around him find they face unexpected spiritual ...
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Sahamongkol closes deals for Ong Bak 2, Chocolate
Thailand's Sahamongkol has sold Tony Jaa's upcoming Ong Bak 2 and hit action flick Chocolate to Madman for Australia and New Zealand, CP Digital for Russia/CIS, and Mirax for Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Czech Republic.Star TV also picked up all rights for Chocolate in Taiwan. Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet ...
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Fine Cut picks up sales on Break Away and Searching For The Elephant
Seoul-based Fine Cut has picked up international sales rights to LeeSong Hee-il's Break Away and SK Jhung's Searching For The Elephant (working title) starring heartthrob Jang Hyuk (Volcano High).Break Away is LeeSong's second feature after the controversial gay drama No Regret, which was at Pusan and Berlin.Based on true events, ...
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Cathay sells classics library to i-Cable for Hong Kong pay-TV, internet
Cathay Organisation has sold its Cathay Classics Films library to i-Cable Hong Kong for Hong Kong and Macau pay-TV and internet. Separately, Cathay is issuing a DVD box set with musicals starring Grace Chan aka Ge Lan, one of the foremost actresses of her era - Wild Wild Rose, Mambo ...
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Korea's Studio 2.0 sells film package to Rose Media in Thailand
Korea's Studio 2.0 has sealed a raft of deals led by Rose Media picking up melodrama Heartbreak Library for Thailand. The film stars Lee Dong-wook, whose TV series My Girl has raised his popularity in that country. Rose also snapped up the post-Korean War boys drama Once Upon A Time ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to food industry doc Food Inc
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's feature documentary Food, Inc. The film world premiered at Toronto and is due to screen at the Berlinale, with a US release scheduled for the first half of 2009. Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment negotiated the ...
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Mirovision, M to partner on Youth Is Reckless
Korea's Mirovision is partnering with M Production to produce Youth IsReckless, by Lee Myung-se, the director of the visual extravaganza M,martial arts mystery Duelists, and crime action film Nowhere To Hide.Youth Is Reckless is based on the Book of Five Rings, a classic samuraitreatise by Miyamoto Musashi, which Lee was ...
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M-Line pre-sells Kitchen to Japan's Showgate
New Korean sales outfit M-Line has pre-sold romantic drama Kitchen to Showgate for Japan.The $1.2m film is due for a February 2009 release in Korea. Starring Ju Ji-hun, from the pan-Asian TV series Princess Hour, the film follows members of a suicide club who end up in a gruesome survival ...
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Shochiku sells Tadashi Mori's Panda Diary to Wild Bunch
Japanese entertainment conglomerate Shochiku has sold documentary PandaDiary to Wild Bunch for France, Benelux, Germany and Italy.Directed by Tadashi Mori, the documentary follows the lives ofendangered pandas who have never lived in the wild forest. Shot in theChendu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China and AdventureWorld in Japan, ...
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CJ sells Bong Joon Ho's Mother to Bitters End for Japan
CJ Entertainment has sold The Host director Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming Mother to Bitters End for Japan.The $6m thriller is aiming for Cannes and a June 2009 release. Hot interest from Japanese buyers got the film a significant pre-sales price, according to CJ. The film stars young, popular actor Won ...
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Fortissimo announces pre-market sales on Gigantic, Food Inc
Fortissimo Films today announced a raft of pre-market sales to major territories, including Matt Aselton's Gigantic starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel to BIM Distribuzione for Italy. Robert Kenner's food industry expose, Food, Inc. which saw its international premiere at Toronto, was picked up by Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, United ...
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Showbox takes on Ski Jump, library, from KM Culture
Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has picked up KM Culture's upcoming sports action film Ski Jump (tentative title) directed by Kim Yong-hwa, who previously directed the hit 200 Pounds Beauty. Showbox has also made a deal to handle all KM Culture's upcoming and library titles for international sales, which include 200 Pounds ...
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AFM buzz - South Korea
The South Korean investment/production bubble has popped and the local industry is suffering from the after-effects of an injection of too much blind and eager money into the sector. But the few new films that have managed to struggle through are worth checking out.Period films are going strong. CJ Entertainment ...
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KOFIC unveils Korean film industry rescue package
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced a plan to revitalise the ailing local film industry, starting with the creation of film funds worth a combined $55.5m - including a $3.4m fund for international co-productions and another of the same amount for 'diversity films' (ie arthouse films). After coming under ...
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TIFFCOM wraps successful edition despite competition
Tokyo's TIFFCOM (Oct 22-24) wrapped Friday night with delegates agreeing the market was good for meetings involving Japanese counterparts, and was getting bigger and better. Despite being sandwiched between MIPCOM and the AFM, and taking place at the same time as the Rome Film Festival, the market was busier than ...
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Canada's Evokative picks up Korean drama Crying Fist
Evokative Films has picked up Canadian rights to Ryoo Seung-wan's boxer drama Crying Fist, following negotiations at the recent Asian Film Market in Pusan. Starring Choi Min-sik, Crying Fist premiered in Cannes' Directors Fortnight in 2005 where it won the FIPRESCI award, and also screened at numerous other festivals including ...
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TIFFCOM: Asia strives for regional, multi-platform content
Asian territories need to work together to create content that can work across national borders and different distribution platforms, said delegates at a TIFFCOM seminar organised by UniJapan and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC). 'Economy-wise, we have Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and we need to try to ...