All articles by Liz Shackleton – Page 182
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Fortissimo picks Zhang's Sunflower
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up international rights to Sunflower, the next picture from Chinese director Zhang Yang, which Peter Loehr is producing through his Los Angeles and Beijing-based production company Ming Productions. China's Asian Union Film and Singapore's Raintree Pictures are co-financing the $1.9m film which is currently being ...
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Japanese Story sold to US
Fortissimo Film Sales has sold North American rights to Un Certain Regard title Japanese Story to Samuel Goldwyn Films following a packed final market screening. The deal was negotiated on behalf of Fortissimo by Cinetic Media's John Sloss with Goldwyn's Meyer Gottlieb in Los Angeles and Tom Quinn and Peter ...
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McTiernan to direct $45m Murder In Canton
John McTiernan is attached to direct a $45m action adventure Murder In Canton, based on the Judge Dee mystery novel, which Samuel and Victor Hadida's Davis Films and Peter Loehr's Ming Productions will co-produce with backing from TF1. French production house D+ Productions, headed by Francoise DeDeu, will also produce. ...
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McTiernan to direct $45m Murder In Canton
John McTiernan is attached to direct a $45m action adventure Murder In Canton, based on the Judge Dee mystery novel, which Samuel and Victor Hadida's Davis Films and Peter Loehr's Ming Productions will co-produce with backing from TF1. French production house D+ Productions, headed by Francoise DeDeu, will also produce. ...
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Fox creates US DVD label for Fortune Star
Fortune Star, the production and distribution arm of Asian regional broadcaster Star TV, has signed a distribution deal with sister company Fox Home Entertainment for release of its classic martial arts library titles in the US.According to Fortune Star general manager Peter Poon, Fox will launch the first batch of ...
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China may 'punish' Cannes duo
China's film censors are reportedly threatening to punish the makers of two films which are screening in Un Certain Regard - Yu Lik-Wai's All Tomorrow Parties and Wang Xiaoshuai's Drifters. Zhou Jiandong, director of the China Film Bureau, said that both films had violated regulations according to a report from ...
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China may 'punish' Cannes duo
China's film censors are reportedly threatening to punish the makers of two films which are screening in Un Certain Regard - Yu Lik-Wai's All Tomorrow Parties and Wang Xiaoshuai's Drifters. Zhou Jiandong, director of the China Film Bureau, said that both films had violated regulations according to a report from ...
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Weg India on US shopping spree
Indian sales and distribution company Weg India is becoming an aggressive buyer of US product snapping up Indian rights to five pictures during this market so far. Among the pictures acquired by Weg are three from Franchise Pictures - The In-Laws, starring Michael Douglas, The Whole Ten Yards with Bruce ...
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Hsu's latest joins 'Changing China' series
Taiwan's Arc Light Films has set Hsu Hsiao-Ming's Love Of May as the next film in the 'Changing China' series that it is co-producing with France's Pyramide group. A romantic drama about the relationship between a girl from the Chinese mainland and a Taiwanese boy, the film will star Chen ...
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Australia calls for cultural exception
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) is calling for recognition of the special status of Australia's film and media industries in trade agreements between Australia and the US. The AFC held a briefing in Cannes yesterday (Monday) to coincide with the start of negotiations in Hawaii for a Free Trade Agreement ...
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Taiwan overhauls film funding policy
Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) has overhauled its film funding policy in an attempt to reinvigorate local production and encourage co-productions with international partners. The Taiwanese film industry is renowned for its arthouse films - from auteurs such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang - that win awards at festivals ...
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Celestial goes wild in France
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has signed a multi-year video distribution deal with France's Wild Side Films for numerous titles from its classic Shaw Brothers library. Wild Side will release more than 40 Shaw Brothers titles - including The One-Armed Swordsman and The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin - in French-speaking territories ...
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China hot for Infernal Affairs
Media Asia's Infernal Affairs franchise is such a hot property on the Chinese mainland that a local distributor has snapped up the first two films before either has been cleared by the mainland authorities for theatrical release.China's Stellar Megamedia Corp (SMC) has acquired mainland theatrical rights to both Infernal Affairs ...
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China hot for Infernal Affairs
Media Asia's Infernal Affairs franchise is such a hot property on the Chinese mainland that a local distributor has snapped up the first two films before either has been cleared by the mainland authorities for theatrical release.China's Stellar Megamedia Corp (SMC) has acquired mainland theatrical rights to both Infernal Affairs ...
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Film Library offers Dragon Blade, Green Tea
Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based sales agent The Film Library has picked up international rights to US$10m Hong Kong animation Dragon Blade and Green Tea directed by mainland Chinese director Zhang Yuan. Dragon Blade, directed by Australian stunt co-ordinator Antony Szeto, is the first feature-length 3D computer-animated film to be ...
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Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic
Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...
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Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic
Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...
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Golden Scene scares up Lau's Park
Hong Kong buyer Golden Scene is also attending Cannes as a seller for the first time this year with horror title The Park, directed by Andrew Lau, whose credits include hit crime thriller Infernal Affairs.The film, which stars Bobo Chan, Tiffany Lee and Edwin Siu, wrapped in Thailand at the ...
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Universe handles Hui's Goddess
Universe Films Distribution has picked up international rights to the next film from Hong Kong director Ann Hui, Jade Goddess (working title), which is currently shooting in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. The cast is headed by rising mainland actress Vicky Zhao, Hong Kong star Nicholas Tse and ...
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Celestial gets drunk on Kung Fu masters
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has picked up international rights to action title Drunken Monkey directed by and starring veteran kung-fu master Lau Kar-Leung. Lau, who directed classics such as 36th Chamber Of Shaolin and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, came out of retirement to make the film which was produced ...