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Fortissimo's Sunflower blooms in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Fortissimo's Sunflower blooms in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Fortissimo's Sunflower set to bloom in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Cineclick, Happinet board Barmak's Opium War
Korean sales agent CineclickAsia has picked up worldwide sales rights to Opium War, the second film from Afghan director Siddiq Barmakfollowing Osama which won aGolden Globe for best foreign-language film in 2004. The deal marks the firsttime that Cineclick has handled a non-Korean feature. The Seoul-based company willalso co-finance and ...
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Celestial, Image pact on Shaw Brothers titles
Hong Kong's CelestialPictures has signed a long-term deal with Image Entertainment for US andCanadian video distribution of 30 titles from its Shaw Brothers library. Titles covered by the dealinclude martial arts classics such as The Shadow Boxer, Heaven And Hell and The Magic Blade, along with a range of other ...
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Chang boards Korean war epic Christmas Cargo
Terence Chang is teaming upwith Korean production company Blue Storm and sales agent Cineclick Asia toproduce $20m Korean war epic Christmas Cargo. Chang, who is John Woo'spartner in Lion Rock Productions, will executive produce the project. BlueStorm president Bae Yong-kook will produce in association with Cineclick Asiamanaging director Suh Young-joo. ...
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Hong Kong's Focus sells First Cuts, Love to Japan
Hong Kong star Andy Lau'sFocus Films has sold its entire FOCUS: First Cuts series of Chinese-languagefeatures to Japanese distributor and talent management company IMX. In addition, the company hassold romantic drama All About Love,starring Lau, Charlie Young (Seven Swords) and Charlene Choi (Twins Effect) to Japan's Movie Eye Entertainment and ...
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Cineclick generates market buzz with Korean duo
Korean sales agent CineclickAsia is introducing two new productions to international buyers at the AFM- Blue Swallow, based onthe true story of Korea's first female aviator, and Bong Joon-ho's $10m monstermovie The Host. Both films were stirring upbuyer interest at the recent market Pusan film market, held alongside the PusanInternational ...
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Fortissimo adds The Bridge to AFM slate
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights outside North America to documentary The Bridge, which marks the directing debut of former studioproduction executive Eric Steel. Filmed at the Golden GateBridge in San Francisco, the documentary examines the stories of the people whochose to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge in ...
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Hong Kong court convicts BitTorrent user
A Hong Kong court has convicted a 38-year-old man for uploading films to theinternet using BitTorrent (BT) technology, in a case that is regarded locallyas the world's first criminal conviction of a BT user.Chan Nai-ming, who used thealias "Big Crook", was convicted by a Hong Kong magistrateof three charges of ...
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Asian producers unveil historical epic Battle Of Wisdom
The four co-producers behind pan-Asian historicalepic Battle OfWisdom officially unveiled the production at a press conference in Beijingtoday. Japan'sComstock and South Korea's Boram Entertainment have joined previously announcedpartners Huayi Brothers from mainland China and Hong Kong's Sundream MotionPictures in the $16m film. Directed by Hong Kong director Jacob Cheung, the ...
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HK government appoints film committee members
The Hong Kong government has appointed 11 members to the newly-established FilmDevelopment Committee (FDC), which was first unveiled by chief executive DonaldTsang last week. Jack So, deputy chairman oflocal telco PCCW, will chair the committee with Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology, John Tsang, servingas vice-chairman. The other ...
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HK government to set up film development board
Hong Kong's new chief executive Donald Tsang has outlinedplans to set up a film development board to support the territory's ailing filmindustry. Speaking in his first policyaddress on Wednesday, Tsang said the board would improve government consultationwith the Hong Kong film industry, review its present conditions andfuture opportunities and formulate ...
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Shoe Fairy flies to Japan's IMX
Hong Kong star Andy Lau's Focus Films has sold Robin Lee's TheShoe Fairy, the first film to emerge from its Focus: First Cuts series, toJapan's IMX.Produced by Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment, the film combines fairytaleimagery and computer graphics in a love story between a woman, her new husbandand her collection ...
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Pusan market wraps with flurry of deals
Although sellers weren't expecting much action until the AFM, the marketat the Pusan filmfestival closed with several major sales on Wednesday (Oct 12).Among the biggest deals, start-up Korean sales agent iHQsold Sad Movie to Japan's Gaga for asum that was more than 80% of the film's $3.5m budget. The melodrama, ...
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Fairy Tale, Heartbreak share top PPP award
Korean directorLee Kwang-mo's Fairy Tale Of A Picture Tree and Thai project HeartbreakPavilion shared the top prize at this year's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) -the $20,000 Busan Award - supplied by the city of Busan. When it goes intoproduction, Fairy Tale will mark the first film from Lee since hismultiple ...
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Pusan unveils plans for 'biggest' Asian film market
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF)has unveiled ambitious plans for a full-scale market which it claims will bethe biggest and most comprehensive in Asia. To be held alongside PIFF in October 2006, the four-day event has beenchristened the Busan Film Market (Busanis the new name for the city although the ...
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Lee joins Celestial as production chief
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has appointed respectedproducer Philip Lee as vice president, New Film Contents, as part of its driveto become more involved in production and content acquisition.One of Hong Kong's leading production executives, Lee's credits include the role ofassociate producer on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and line produceron Zhang ...
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Fortissimo adds Hart Sharp collection to library
Fortissimo Films hasexpanded its library of TV rights by acquiring the five-film catalogue of NewYork-based production company Hart Sharp Entertainment.Titles covered by the dealinclude films such as Dark Harbour, directed by Adam Coleman Howard; Lift,from DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter; and award-winning You Can Count On Meby Kenneth Lonergan.Fortissimo, whichestablished ...
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Hong Kong's See Corp set to produce digital slate
See Corporation, a Hong Kong-basedcontent company backed by local tycoon Lawrence Yu, plans to invest $3.8m-5.2m(HK$30-40m) in a slate of high definition (HD) films, in an attempt to boost Hong Kong's flagging production industry.The company has lined up severalhigh-profile filmmakers to work on the digital slate including Fruit Chan andGordon ...