All articles by Liz Shackleton – Page 156
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Lust, Caution has strong opening in HK, Taiwan
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution had a record-breaking opening in Hong Kong and Taiwan on September 25, which was also the date of this year's mid-autumn festival public holiday. In Taiwan, the Venice Golden Lion winner grossed $1.07m (NT35m) in two days. It claimed the biggest mid-autumn holiday single day record, ...
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Warner Bros, TWC sign up for two Imagi features
Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based Imagi Animation Studios has signed a deal with Warner Bros Pictures and The Weinstein Company for worldwide distribution of its upcoming 3D animated features Gatchaman and Astroboy. The three companies previously partnered on Imagi's first theatrical production, TMNT, which opened in March 2007 at the ...
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Forbidden Kingdom moves to South Korea for effects work
Relativity Media's kung-fu action adventure The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan, has wrapped in China and will now move to South Korea for visual effects work. A consortium of three South Korean effects houses - Macrograph Inc, Digital Tetra Inc (DTI) and Footage - has been assembled ...
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Hong Kong selects Exiled as Oscar submission
Hong Kong's Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong (FMFP) has selected Johnnie To's Exiled as the territory's entry for the best foreign-language film category of next year's Academy Awards. The Macau-set gunplay drama premiered in competition at the Venice film festival in 2006 and was sold widely by ...
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Columbia, French buyers get busy at Beijing Screenings
State-owned China Film Group announced a slew of sales and co-production deals on the last day of the four-day Beijing Screenings (Oct 18-21). The largest announcement was a co-operation agreement between China Film, Columbia TriStar, Korea's CJ Entertainment and two Hong Kong companies - Media Asia and Emperor Motion Pictures ...
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China Film Group reveals plans to launch IPO
China Film Group chairman Han San Ping announced the state-owned conglomerate's intention to list on the Chinese stock market through an IPO, at the opening of the Beijing Screenings yesterday (Sep 18). Han said the group was 'in talks with Asian financial institutions' about the listing which would enable it ...
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Sony, Eros to co-finance slate of Hindi films
Sony Pictures Entertainment and global Bollywood producer-distributor Eros International plan to co-invest in a slate of Hindi films, to be released in India and around the world. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreement, Sony and Eros will jointly develop, produce and acquire multiple films for the new slate. Sony ...
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A match made in Bollywood
A Chinese-language, partially studio-backed film, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, may have just walked off with the top prize from Venice, but these days the US studios seem more intent on learning Hindi than Mandarin Chinese.Over the past few months, the studios have announced a string of local-language production deals in ...
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Tokyo Project Gathering unveils 38 projects
The organisers of the third Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) have unveiled the 38 projects that will take part in this year's edition (Oct 21-24). The financing and co-production market will take place at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex at the same time as the TIFFCOM contents market and the Tokyo International ...
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Tsi resigns as director of Hong Kong film festival
Peter Tsi has resigned as executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), citing personal reasons. The festival, whichtakes placeat the same time as Hong Kong Filmart in March/April, has been forced to change direction over the past few years due to a sharp decrease in government funding. ...
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Chan makes English-language debut with Don't Look Up
Distant Horizon has announced that award-winning Hong Kong director Fruit Chan will direct the English-language remake of Japanese filmmaker Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up. The company's president Anant Singh also announced that the film will be produced in association with Japan 's Action 5. One of Nakata's early films before ...
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Blood Brothers has strong opening in mainland China
Alexi Tan's Blood Brothers, produced by Lion Rock Productions and Taiwan 's CMC Entertainment, has raked in around $3m (RMB23m) in mainland China between its opening on August 16 and last Sunday (Aug 26). The film, distributed in China by Beijing-based Huayi Brothers, grossed $1.6m (RMB$12m) on its opening weekend, ...
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Warner Bros enters Hindi-language film production
Warner Bros has announced its long-anticipated move into local production in India by boarding action comedy Made In China, to be directed by Nikhil Advani and star action hero Akshay Kumar. Indian production houses Ramesh Sippy Productions and Orion Pictures, founded by Advani and Mukesh Talreja, will produce the film ...
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India's Adlabs lines up multi-territory release for Marigold
Indian studio Adlabs has lined up an Aug 17 day-and-date release in the US, UK and India for Hollywood/Bollywood romantic comedy Marigold. The long-gestating fusion pic, starring Ali Larter and Bollywood star Salman Khan, will be rolled out on 80-100 prints in the US, around 50 in the UK and ...
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Imagi appoints Cheung to head Hong Kong animation
Imagi International Holdings has appointed former DreamWorks CGI animator Tim Cheung as vice president, animation. According to Imagi deputy chairman, co-CEO and chief creative officer Francis Kao, Cheung will oversee the animation for all of Imagi's CGI feature films and will manage company's team of around 400 Hong Kong-based animators. ...
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Desert Dream wins best film at India's Cinefan festival
Korean-French co-production Desert Dream , directed by Zhang Lu, was awarded best film in the Asian-Arab competition of this year's Cinefan film festival, which wrapped in New Delhi on Sunday night (July 29). The film, which premiered in competition at Berlin this year, follows a mother and son who escape ...
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Osian's launches fund for Asian, Arab filmmakers
Indian arts organisation Osian's, organiser of the Cinefan film festival which is currently in progress in Delhi, is launching a development fund to support filmmakers from India, Asia and the Arab region. Dubbed the Film Fund: Osian's Originating Development (FOOD), thefund will provide grants ranging from $10,000-$25,000 for pre-production expenses ...
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Chan to star in Tokyo-set drama Shinjuku Incident
Hong Kong's JCE Movies is set to produce Japan-set drama The Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Derek Yee. Chan will also produce the film through JCE - his joint venture with Albert Yeung's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) - while EMP will handle international sales. The Hong Kong ...
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Cinefan opens with Iran-Azerbaijan co-production Raami
Osian's Cinefan 9th Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema opened in Delhi on Friday night (July 20) with the international premiere of Iran-Azerbaijan co-production Raami. The feature debut of documentary filmmaker Babak Shirinsefat, the film follows a musician searching for his Armenian wife, who fled to Iran during the conflict ...
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Hong Kong's Sundream appoints Nan Wong as distribution chief
Hong Kong distribution executive Nan Wong has joined local producer-distributor Sundream Motion Pictures as general manager of distribution. Wong was formerly deputy general manager of local distributor Intercontinental Film Distributors, which handles Buena Vista product in Hong Kong. In her new role she will be responsible for Sundream's international film ...