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Fox signs letter of intent to invest in Showbox films
Leading Korean investor and distributor Showbox Mediaplex announced on the KOSDAQ today (April 17) that major US studio 20th Century Fox has signed a letter of intent (LOI) regarding co-financing and international distribution of Korean films. According to the LOI, Fox would invest in Showbox films, which would then be ...
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Chow Yun-fat climbs down from Woo's Red Cliff
Three days after shooting started, Chinese star Chow Yun-fat has dropped out of John Woo's $70m epic drama Red Cliff. According to producer Terence Chang, the reason for the sudden withdrawal was that completion bond company CineFinance would not approve the terms raised by Chow. It is the second time ...
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Owen takes the lead in Tykwer-directed thriller for Sony
Clive Owen has signed on to star in Columbia Pictures' action thriller The International which will be directed by Tom Tykwer.Eric Singer wrote the screenplay for the film which is being produced by Mosaic Media Group's Charles Roven and Richard Suckle alongside Lloyd Phillips.Owen will star as an obsessive Intepol ...
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Former Polybona exec launches Life Pictures
Former Polybona Film Distribution executive Guan Yadi and commercials director Li Weiran have launched a new production company, Life Pictures, which aims to produce three features over the next year. The three projects in development include In Your Face - 3.05 meters, a coming-of-age story about basketball and Beijing's young ...
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ContentFilm takes on world sales of August starring Josh Hartnett
ContentFilm International has taken on worldwide rights to Austin Chick's August, which start shooting today in New York City. Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn will star. Charlie Corwin, David Guy Levy and Clara Markowicz of Original Media are producing alongside Hartnett and Elisa Pugliese of 57th ...
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Sony Classics to finance, distribute Mamet's Redbelt
Sony Pictures Classics will fully finance and handle worldwide distribution on longtime collaborator David Mamet's American Samurai tale Redbelt.Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in the story of a martial arts master who enters prize fights for the first time in his life to pay off debts and regain his honour after ...
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China Film Group unveils new plans to support young film-makers
Chinese government-owned China Film Group announced to introduce 'young filmmaker developing project' and 'author film series' to develop young filmmakers and mid-budget filmmaking, as a new direction of the group's film production plan in 2007, according to China Film president Han Sanping. While the group is involved in big-budget co-productions ...
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Japanese pay TV company Wowow establishes feature film label
Major satellite pay tv provider Wowow has announced the establishment of a feature film label, Wowow Films. 'In looking at the image Wowow has for its subscribers, the overwhelming response was 'movies'. We're answering that demand by eagerly entering feature film production,' said Wowow CEO Nobuya Wazaki. Wowow Films announced ...
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Marshall reunites with Weinsteins for Nine
Harvey Weinstein and Rob Marshall are reuniting for the first time since the Oscar winning 2003 musical Chicago on an adaptation of the Broadway show Nine.Marshall will direct the production with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, composer and lyricist for the original 1982 Broadway production that won the Tony ...
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The smart money is on Singapore
As the Singapore International Film festival opens, Screen International examines how the territory is aiming to pull in new backers. A key global economic hub, Singapore has set its sights on becoming a media-financing centre for the 21st century and is positioning itself as a meeting point of finance and ...
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Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two
There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...
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Set report: Kim Ki-duk's Breath
Kim Ki-duk's eyes gleam with concentration as he surveys his actors taking their places for the final scene of Breath, the director's 14th film. It is a freezing cold day in Seoul and Kim is shooting in a former Japanese colonial prison where Korean independence movement fighters were once tortured ...
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Buy the book
From Oscar-feted films such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal to the new wave of fantasy films led by Eragon, book adaptations are scoring at the global box office and reaping critical acclaim. The literary option market is showing no sign of deflation, with producers ...
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Sarsgaard, Hopper, Harry join starry Animal cast for Lakeshore
Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper and Deborah Harry will join Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson in Lakeshore Entertainment's Philip Roth adaptation Dying Animal.Production is set to start in Vancouver in May with Isabel Coixet directing from an adapted screenplay by Nicholas Meyer (The Human Stain).Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary ...
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Greenberg, Kassorla option Kassorla's Miracle
Randy Greenberg, the former head of Universal's international theatrical division, and TV producer Jackie Kassoria have teamed up to option psychologist and talk radio host Irene C Kassorla's book Miracle At Springfield Hospital.The story charts Dr Kassorla's early career in London when she revived a catatonic schizophrenic mental patient who ...
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India's UTV to float film production arm on London AIM
Indian media conglomerate UTV Software Communications is to transfer all its worldwide film production activities into one of its overseas subsidiaries, which will move to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.The move is a clear signal of the interest of the group in ...
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TWC, Lionsgate team on domestic for The Forbidden Kingdom
Principal photography is set to begin on May 2 in China on the action epic The Forbidden Kingdom featuring the first ever pairing of Jackie Chan and Jet Li.Lionsgate will co-release with The Weinstein Company (TWC) in the US in summer 2008 and Lionsgate UK will release in the UK. ...
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Tyldum replaces Hennie as director of Fallen Angels
Norwegian director Morten Tyldum will replace Aksel Hennie as director of Fallen Angels, the second theatrical production for SF Norge's $12.9m (Euros 9.8m) Varg Veum detective series, Norway 's largest film project to date. Tyldum's 2003 feature debut, Buddy, won the Amanda - the national film prize - for best ...
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Media Asia set to go private with eSun takeover
Media Asia, the Singapore-listed Hong Kong producer of Infernal Affairs, is set to go private through a buyout led by Hong Kong-listed media conglomerate eSun Holdings. eSun, which already owns 37.33% of the company, is offering to acquire all outstanding shares to make Media Asia its wholly owned subsidiary. The ...
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Yu establishes Ming Yue Tang to develop Chinese co-productions
Hong Kong-based production house October Films has established a Beijing-based company, Ming Yue Tang Film and TV Cultural Ltd, to develop Chinese-language co-productions between China, Hong Kong and Korea. Daniel Yu, former COO of Andy Lau's Focus Films, will be in charge of developing the company's first four projects. Yu ...