All articles by Liz Shackleton – Page 150
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Shanghai film festival pays tribute to Minghella
The Shanghai International Film Festival has issued the following statement regarding the death of Anthony Minghella who had been appointed president of the festival's competition jury this year: 'The Organising Committee of the Shanghai International Film Festival was greatly shocked upon hearing of the sudden death of Mr. Anthony Minghella.His ...
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CEC strikes financing deal for Osborne's Laundry Warrior
Specialty finance and investment company Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has announced a single-picture financing deal for highly-anticipated, English-language action feature The Laundry Warrior. Total production capital for the project, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth and Korean star Jang Dong-gun, comes from a combination of CEC's financing and third-party equity.Budgeted ...
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Pang Ho-cheung, Ning Hao win top HAF awards
Pang Ho Cheung's The Bus picked up the HAF Award for best Hong Kong project at the close of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)today (March 19). Chinese director Ning Hao's 7 Dreams won the HAF Award for best project from outside of Hong Kong. Both awards, which ...
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Hong Kong's Salon Films forms pan-Asian alliance
Hong Kong's Salon Films has formed an affiliation of pan-Asian production and financing companies to help facilitate international productions in the region. In addition to Salon Films, the partners include China's Hengdian World Studios, leading Japanese talent agency and producer Yoshimoto Kogyo Co, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Cayman Islands-based ...
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EFP gives support to seven films at Hong Kong film festival
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) has, for the first time, been included in the list of non-European film festivals eligible for European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support (FSS) initiative.Four European sales agents and one production company are receiving FFS support for the marketing of seven films.These include Stefan ...
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Mandarin brings Bruce Lee's kung-fu master to big screen
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films is producing a biopic of Ip Man, the kung-fu master of global superstar Bruce Lee, which is set to star Donnie Yen and Simon Yam.Wilson Yip is directing the film which is currently in pre-production, with Sammo Hung as action director. Yip and Yen previously collaborated ...
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Secret Sunshine lights up Asian Film Awards
Korea's Secret Sunshine was the big winner at the second edition of the Asian Film Awards (AFAs) last night, scooping best film, best director for Lee Chang-dong and best actress for Jeon Do-yeon's performance.The AFA prizes follow almost of a year of top honours for Secret Sunshine, which also won ...
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Empress finds champion in Golden Network
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has picked up worldwide rights outside Asia to martial arts epic An Empress And The Warriors from United Filmmakers Organization.Hong Kong's Mei Ah Entertainment is handling Asian sales on the film, directed by action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-tung and starring Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen and ...
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Ramy Choi's Fame to develop new Taiwanese talent
Former Fortissimo Films executive Ramy Choi has launched a production and talent management outfit, Fame Universal Entertainment, which aims to develop up-and-coming talent with a focus on Taiwan.The company is representing several award-winning Taiwanese films as international sales agent - including Singing Chen's Berlin Forum entry God Man Dog, Doze ...
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US independents march on Asia
US interest in Asia's film and entertainment industries is hotting up with Lionsgate becoming the latest mini-major, following The Weinstein Company and Hyde Park Entertainment, to make a major investment in the region. Lionsgate is understood to be one of the main investors in a Hong Kong-based operation being set ...
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Sundream signs output deal with The Weinstein Company
Hong Kong's Sundream Motion Pictures has sealed an output deal and a two-picture co-production pact with The Weinstein Company (TWC), and is also lining up a slate of new productions. Under the output deal, Sundream will handle theatrical and video distribution of all TWC titles deemed suitable for the Hong ...
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Distant Horizon unveils cast of Chan's Don't Look Up
Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan's remake of Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up will start shooting in Los Angeles on April 14, with a cast including Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin and Reshad Strik. Distant Horizon is producing in association with Japan's Action 5 and Hakuhodo. Hong Kong ...
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CHINA: RISING STARS
Jiang Yiyan, actressJiang stars in Zhao Tianyu's romantic comedy Gourmet Of Poison, opposite Francis Ng and actress Yu Nan. Also a pop singer, Jiang is now working with Lu Chuan on the historical drama Nanking! Nanking!, as well as several TV dramas. The magazine Esquire China has already been seduced ...
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HONG KONG: INDIE FINANCE
Launched last April, the Film Development Council (FDC) advises the Hong Kong government on policy for the promotion and development of the local film industry. It also oversees the $38m (hk$300m) Film Development Fund and related areas, such as training and promotion of film literacy.Designed to support small to medium-sized ...
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HONG KONG: TERRITORY OVERVIEW
Looking solely at the numbers, the Hong Kong film industry had a tough time last year, with a further decline in the number of films produced to a record low of 50, according to figures from the Motion Picture Industry Association (Mpia). Their combined share of the Hong Kong box ...
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HKIFF:ADDING THE GLAMOUR
Primarily an audience festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff) nonetheless achieves greater international recognition by taking place at the same time as Filmart and the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF). In turn, it helps to increase the film-maker quotient at both industry-heavy events.Nearly 300 films from ...
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Hong Kong Overview - Financing - A lifeline for independent producers
Launched last April, the Film Development Council (FDC) advises the Hong Kong government on policy for the promotion and development of the local film industry. It also oversees the $38m (hk$300m) Film Development Fund and related areas, such as training and promotion of film literacy.Designed to support small to medium-sized ...
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HONG KONG BOX OFFICE: GOLDEN TICKETS
Hong Kong's overall box office leapt 11% to just over $129.6m (hk$1bn) in 2007, marking the first time the territory's box office has bounced back above the hk$1bn level since 2001.The increase was due partly to new cinema openings, strong US studio product and a strengthening economy. Last year, the ...
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FILMART: ASIA GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS
The oldest and arguably most established film market in Asia, Filmart (March 17-20) has emerged as one of the leading events on the global film industry's calendar.Launched by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC) back in 1997, the market is still dominated by Asian product and those who want ...
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Fortissimo adds Konchalovsky's Gloss to line-up
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside Russia and France to Andrei Konchalovsky's Gloss, which will receive a gala screening at next month's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). Produced by Konchalovsky's Production Center,Glosstakes a satirical look at the current wave of capitalism sweeping through Russia.Since making the film, the ...