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Zhang Side dominates top Chinese awards
Yin Li's Zhang Side dominated the 15th Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Awards. The biopic about a celebrated Chinese soldier took the best picture, best director and best actor awards. For the first time the awards shortlists were decided by moviegoers across the country. According to China Film Association, ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai plans November shoot for Zuo You
Chinese filmmakerWang Xiaoshuai will be shooting $1.25m drama Zuo You (literally Left And Right) as his 10th feature film, the Cannes-winningdirector announced at the Golden Rooster Baihua Film Festival in China's Hangzhou City today.Beijing-basedDebo Film, producer of Wang's previous film ShanghaiDreams, will again be the main production and financing company ...
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Father wins China's first mobile phone movie awards
The inaugural Mobile PhoneMovie Awards - organised by Beijing-based Zonbo Media, Xian city government andXian Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone - closed yesterday in China's Xian city with eight awards given out to youngshort filmmakers across the country.Father,directed by Qin Xiaopeng, took the top prize, the best film award, winning$1,265 (RMB10,000).Another ...
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PUSAN: Tilly joins glittering Asian cast in Silver Valley
US actress Jennifer Tilly has joined Chinese actress Hao Lei (Summer Palace) and Hong Kong star Aaron Kwok in the cast of period drama Silver Valley, which is currently shooting in China's Shanxi province.Directed by California-basedfilmmaker Christina Yao, the $10m film is co-produced by Taiwanese producerPeggy Chiao's Arc Light Films, ...
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China confirms Golden Flower as Oscar entry
As anticipated, China has selected Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower as its submission for the best foreign-languagefilm category at next year's Academy Awards.Beijing New Picture Film Co,which produced the film, confirmed the decision made by a selection committee organisedby the Film Bureau under China's State Administration of Radio, ...
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Japan's Avex buys into Chinese talent agency
Japan's Avex Group has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in the holding companyof Beijing-based talent agency and production house, Chengtian EntertainmentGroup. The two companies also planto establish a joint venture, Avex China, with dates to be announced. Two undisclosed US companies have also acquired a combined 5% stake inthe ...
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Zhang Yimou's new film gets Oscar-qualifying run
Beijing-based NewPicture Film Co has announced that Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The GoldenFlower will be eligible to be the Chinese candidate for the bestforeign-language film category at next year's Oscars. The film will have anOscar-qualifying run in Shenyang city in Northern China for a week, starting Sept 23.The film'sofficial release ...
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China box office up 40% with Hollywood in the lead
China's box office grew by 40% to $125m (RMB1bn) in the first half of 2006,compared to the same period last year, according to local reports, of which revenue-sharingHollywood imports accounted for 51%. The other 49% of the marketwas shared by flat-fee imported films and local productions. Sony's The Da Vinci ...
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Stephen Chow plans August start for A Hope
Hong Kong actor anddirector Stephen Chow announced that he will shoot his new film A Hope (working title) in August in China's Southeastern city Ningbo. Budgeted at $20m,the film will be co-financed by Chow's Star Overseas Limited, China Film Groupand Beijing Polybona Film Publishing.Chow will star inthe sci-fi film with ...
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Cars drives into China's crowded summer schedule
Now that China's month-long blackout on foreign blockbusters isover, there's a bottleneck of Hollywood films waiting for release. Disney has just confirmedthat Pixar animation Cars will bereleased in China on August 22, but the release of PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has been delayed indefinitely, accordingto local media. Disney's ...
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Crazy Stone becomes China's biggest local film in 2006
Ning Hao's black comedy Crazy Stone has become the highest-grossinglocal production at the Chinese box office so far this year, with box officereceipts of $775,000 (RMB6.2m).The low-budget comedy, distributed by Warner China Film,was also the best performing domestic production during the "Local FilmProtection Month", which ended two days ago.Ronny Yu's ...
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Four Minutes takes top prize at Shanghai festival
German drama Four Minutes, directed by Chris Kraus,won the Jin Jue best film award at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival(SIFF) on Sunday night, while Chinese director Qi Jian's The Forest Ranger was awarded the Jury Grand Prix.The nine-day festival had astar-studded closing night with Ed Norton, Catherine Deneuve and ...
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Piracy in China cost the industry $2.7bn last year
The Motion Picture Association (MPA)released a new research result on piracy in China onMonday, which suggested that local filmmakers and industry players are sufferingmuch more from widespread film piracy than foreign film companies. Few localindustry members, however, expect the situation to improve anytime soon.The research suggests that in 2005, thetotal ...
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Sil-Metropole backs Ma Liwen romantic comedy
Hong Kong-based Sil-MetropoleOrganization has teamed up with Emperor Motion Pictures and Beijing-basedZhenhua Investment Co to co-finance Ma Liwen's Tao Hua Yun (lit trans: TheLuck Of Romance) which started shooting yesterday in Beijing.Vivian Wu (The Last Emperor), Ge You (The Banquet) and Fan Bingbing (Battle Of Wits) star in the $2.5m ...
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Tong developing rival Mulan project
Hong Kong-born director StanleyTong has announced that he plans to start shooting $25m period drama, The Legend Of Mulan, in October withbacking from Beijing-based Starlight Media. The news follows theannouncement that Harvey and Bob Weinstein are in negotiations with Zhang Ziyito star in a Mulan project that is being developed ...
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Shanghai teams with Warner China Film on Phone Call
Shanghai Film Group isjoining forces with Warner China Film HG Group to produce contemporary drama The 601st Phone Call.Director Feng Xiaogangserves as the producer of the film while TV actor Zhang Guoli takes thedirector's seat. Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung and Zhou Bichang, winner of China's top-rated SuperGirl TV contest, ...
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Beijing Rosat lines up three-picture slate
Beijing-based Rosat Film andTV Productions is lining up a slate of three films including period martialarts drama Green Dragon Scimitarwhich is scheduled to start shooting in September. Budgeted at $12.5m, the filmis about the life of Guan Yu, a general in China's Three Kingdoms period. Rosat founder Li Shaohong is ...
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King Kong breaks box office records in China
Peter Jackson's King Kong has lumbered past the RMB100m($12.4m) threshold at the mainland Chinese box office to become thetop-grossing imported film of the past five years and the third biggest foreignfilm in the history of Chinese cinema.Up until Monday (Feb 27), King Kong had taken in RMB100.49m sinceits release on ...
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Hong Kong conglomerate New World steps into China
Hong Kong conglomerate New WorldGroup, which is owned by Media 8 Entertainment investor Henry Cheng, is to stepinto film production in Chinawith PK.com to be directed byBeijing-based filmmaker Xiao Jiang (Electric Shadows). Hong Kongidol Jaycee Chan, son of action star Jackie Chan, and Taiwanese heartthrob ChenBo-lin will head the cast ...