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Asian Film Finance: Korea opportunities
Now the local bubble has burst, Korean funds are starting to invest in foreign films. JEAN NOH reportsIn the late 1990s, South Korea's government came to the realisation that it takes a comparatively vast number of Hyundai car exports to equal the profits of a single Hollywood hit. Economic motivation ...
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Asia Film Finance: Korea opportunities
Now the local bubble has burst, Korean funds are starting to invest in foreign films. JEAN NOH reportsInthe late 1990s, South Korea's government came to the realisation thatit takes a comparatively vast number of Hyundai car exports to equalthe profits of a single Hollywood hit. Economic motivation to ...
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Asian Film Finance: Ventures Into China
As China’s production levels and boxoffice are booming, the nascent local industry is starting to attractoutside capital and bank financing.
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Asia Film Finance 2008
ASIAN FILM FINANCESpecial features Introduction: The world turns EastThe rise of Asian film fundsKorea opportunitiesAsia opens up to international projectsVentures into ChinaFunding sourcesAsian Film FundsDebt FinancingGovernment organisations
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Puffer replaces Tellenbach as KirchPayTV boss
The Kirch group has dropped KirchPayTV boss Markus Tellenbach. The operation will be taken over from January by Manfred Puffer, who is currently Kirch Holding finance director. KirchPayTV was supposed to float on the German stock market by the end of next year. But growth in subscriber numbers is understood ...
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14th Encounters Short Film Festival is launched
Encounters hosted a preview party as a prelude to the Encounters Short Film Festival (Nov 18-23) at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden on Tuesday.BAFTA-award-winning actor and director, Paddy Considine, triple Oscar winner, Richard Williams, and Clare Kitson, the former Channel 4 commissioner, are among the guests confirmed for the ...
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Six film-makers begin Cannes Residence de la Cinefondation
The Cannes Residence de la Cinefondation has started its autumn session with six new film-makers. The group will spend the nextfour and a half months in Paris whilst honing their first or second feature with the support of the local film industry.Contrary to recent editions which seemed particularly female-heavy, this ...
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Pusan opens with fanfare but mourns death of local star
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) opened tonight (Oct 2) at the Outdoor Theatre of the Haeundae Yachting Center with fireworks and fanfare, a star-studded red carpet, opening film Gift To Stalin and an announcement of a death and an absence. The death was of much-beloved local actress Choi ...
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Cape No. 7 becomes Taiwan's top-grossing film of the year
Taiwan's Cape No. 7 has become the number one film at the Taipei box office in 2008, grossing over $4m. Wei Te-sheng's debut film surged ahead of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Dark Knight at the weekend, but figures were not immediately available as Taiwan endured ...
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Rome pushes 2009 date closer to Venice
The fourth edition of the Rome International Film Festival in 2009 will open a week earlier than this year - bringing it even closer to its Venice rival.The news comes before the third edition of the International Rome Film Festival officially kicks off (October 22-31). While the dates for the ...
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James Earl Jones to receive SAG lifetime achievement award
James Earl Jones will receive SAG's most prestigious accolade the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award For Career achievement And Humanitarian Accomplishment at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 25 2009 in Los Angeles.SAG presents the annual award to a recipient it feels embodies the 'finest ideals ...
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Romero begins production on untitled zombie movie in Canada
Production has begun on George A Romero's untitled latest zombie parable in Ontario, Canada.In keeping with all Romero's other films the project is not a sequel but a new adventure informed by the contemporary social and political climate.The action takes place on an isolated island off the North American coast ...
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IFC Films picks up Man From London for direct to VOD service
IFC Entertainment has acquired US rights from Fortissimo Films to Bela Tarr's Hungarian drama Man From London starring Tilda Swinton.The film, which premiered in competition in Cannes 2007, will go out through IFC's Festival Direct VOD service.Tarr adapted the screenplay with Laszlo Krasznahorkai from Belgian writer Georges Simenon's novel about ...
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Alpine Pictures, Strick deal in Love
Alpine Pictures has teamed with Cape Fear screenwriter Wesley Strick to produce teen thriller Love Is The Drug starring Leelee Sobieski, the fast-rising young actress who appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.Love Is The Drug is billed as a Generation X thriller set against the Los Angeles rave scene ...
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National Federation of the Blind condemns Meireilles' Blindness
The US-based National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has condemned Fernando Meirelle's Cannes opener Blindness as 'harmful' to the blind because it portrays blind people as 'monsters'. The interest group plans to stage protests at 79 cinemas across the US where the film is screening. The Canada-Brazil-Japan coproduction opens October ...
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Cheadle, Swinton, Frears join Penn in Britannia Awards lineup
Don Cheadle will receive the BAFTA/LA Humanitarian Award, Tilda Swinton the Britannia Award For British Artist Of The Year and Stephen Frears the John Schlesinger Britannia Award For Artistic Excellence In Directing at the 17th Annual BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on November 6 in Los Angeles.Cheadle's humanitarian efforts include co-founding Not ...
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Paradiso fills shopping basket at MIFED
Belgian distributor Paradiso Entertainment closed a series of package deals at MIFED with New Line Cinema, Good Machine International and Beyond International. Having previously handled New Line's Rush Hour it snapped up Rush Hour 2 and Nick Cassavetes' hospital-set hostage drama John Q, which is now in production with Denzel ...
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Screen opinion: The D-cinema dilemma
The word 'mutuality' comes across now as a rather dated concept. It's a term which, for those of a certain age, will conjure up images of bicycles on cobbled streets, ration books and powdered eggs. The self-help mutual funds and building societies it once described have often been gobbled up ...
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In focus: Small cinemas' digital cinema threat
There are few certainties about the disruptive digital future for film, but at least there has been agreement in recent times that change is inevitable, permanent and will sweep the whole industry along with it.Business models would emerge, recalcitrant distributors and exhibitors would take the plunge and our attention would ...