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United Kingdom - Small wonder
UK independent publisher Quercus may be small, but it should not escape the notice of any film producers hungry for literary material. Just two years since being launched by publishing industry veteran Anthony Cheetham (who founded Century and Orion) and his business partner Mark Smith, Quercus has picked up a ...
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THE FACE OF PUSAN
One of the most beloved and colourful figures in the South Korean industry, Kim Dong-ho can take some of the credit for putting Korean cinema on the international map. As founding director of the Pusan International Film Festival in 1996, now Asia's biggest industry event, it is Kim who shored ...
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China - A new dawn
The Sun Also Rises, the third film by Chinese maverick director Jiang Wen, adopts an entirely different narrative and visual style to his previous films, the semi-autobiographical In The Heat Of The Sun and satirical drama Devils On The Doorstep.Gone is the stark realism of those films, replaced by a ...
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PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
The Pusan International Film Festival (Piff), Asia's most dynamic cinema showcase, is growing up fast. Celebrating its 12th edition this year, it is expanding broadly with new events and initiatives, while also increasing the premieres in its main sections. A record 92 films (out of 275 films from 64 countries) ...
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PUSAN PROGRAMMER PICKS
LEE SANG-YONG, KOREAN CINEMA PROGRAMMERWho's That Knocking At My Door' Dir: Yang Hea-hoonFeature debut from the director of Cannes shorts competitor My Dear Rosetta, this film is 'a gem' that deals with violence and growing pains.Hello, Stranger (world premiere) Dir: Kim Dong-hyunA glimpse behind the veil of South Korean society, ...
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Q&A WITH FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTOR LEE YONG KWAN
JEAN NOH, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL: You are one of PIFF's founding members. How did it all start'It all started in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was a professor at Kyung-sung University in Busan. I used to get together on the beaches of Gwang-an-li after classes with a group ...
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PUSAN'S AFM STAKES ITS CLAIM
Now in its second year as a fully fledged market, Pusan's Asian Film Market (October 8-11) is still relatively small and takes place at one of the busiest times of the year - but is already considered a key event by many international buyers and sellers.In its first edition last ...
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Co-production PRO & Star Summit Asia
The Asian Film Market is striving to be a full-service market and already encompasses the contents market, projects market PPP and locations and production services convention Bifcom.Last year, the market also launched talent showcase Star Summit Asia, which aims to stimulate co-productions by showcasing Asian talent, and this year is ...
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Dr. T And The Women
Dir: Robert Altman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod co: Sandcastle 5. Int'l sales: Initial Entertainment Group (1) 310 315 1722. Prod: Robert Altman, James McLindon. Scr: Anne Rapp. DoP: Jan Kiesser. Prod des: Stephen Altman. Editor: Geraldine Peroni. Music: Lyle Lovett. Main cast: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, ...
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ASIAN FILM MARKET BUZZ
THAILANDThailand's Mono Film (which sold the remake rights for romantic drama Me ... Myself to Korea's K&Entertainment earlier this year) is showing the latest footage of Fighting Beat (Pahuyut) - a martial-arts drama set on Phi Phi Island and directed by Piti Jaturaphat - and Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn's romantic comedy Gig ...
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International - The Russians are coming
Russian films made their mark this weekend as three titles from the territory collectively accounted for 4.7% of the international revenue from the top 40 films over the three-day period. Two new entries - Mongol and 12 - both made the top 30 this weekend while Day Watch, the follow-up ...
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Chasin' Jason
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 21-23(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$14,159,7173,902$145,587,801492(New)Resident Evil: Extinction (US)$7,878,375992$8,144,67043(9)I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (US)$5,099,7801,661$26,864,423284(2)The Simpsons Movie (US)$5,035,2741,544$332,055,644115(11)Superbad (US)$4,981,3311,043$9,908,56186(7)Ratatouille (US)$4,656,0002,535$216,416,000277(8)No Reservations (US)$4,603,5662,199$30,348,573458(3)Hero (Jap)$4,418,753475$39,168,88019(New)The Mafia, The Salesman (S Kor)$4,236,119442$4,970,196110(4)Hairspray (US)$3,968,5961,794$48,521,4783011(5)Shrek The Third (US)$3,285,3321,107$464,034,6491612(New)A Love (S Kor)$3,266,741388$3,862,268113(6)Rush Hour 3 (US)$3,071,3882,150$74,081,4293214(14)Disturbia (US)$2,868,1271,594$31,928,5223015(13)Atonement (UK-Fr-US)$2,833,663594$13,897,057216(New)Mongol (Rus-Ger-Kaz-Mon)$2,776,244356$2,776,244317(12)Run, Fat Boy, ...
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Box office: data - Shining example
One of the world's largest-scale experiments has suggested strong audience demand for digitally restored archive material.The UK Summer of British Film season, organised by the UK Film Council and the BBC, showed classic films at 136 theatres signed up to the National Digital Cinema network. Audiences across the country were ...
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CJ, China Film to co-produce Cheung's Tangka
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment has announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China 's largest film company, China Film Group, to co-produce Tibet-set drama Tangka. The film will be directed by Jacob Cheung who most recently directed pan-Asian co-production A Battle Of Wits , starring Andy ...
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Studios clear decks ready for autumn schedule
The weekend looks to be a slow one as the distributors churn through the remnants of summer and prepare their autumn line-ups. Universal/UPI's The Bourne Ultimatum has led the way for the last few weekends and may stay top in the absence of any obvious strong challenge. The ...
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Jun returns to Korean film with Chung's Superman
Pan-Asian Korean star Gianna Jun (My Sassy Girl), formerly known as Jun Ji-hyun, is making her local comeback in the upcoming film from Chung Yoon-chul, director of the hit Marathon. The actress/model just finished shooting Edko Films/Pathe France's Blood: The Last Vampire with director Chris Nahon this August. Her last ...
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Dir. Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi. Canada/US. 2007. 84 min.Its title promises little but this big-hearted documentary delivers much. Beginning as a misguided if not utterly foolhardy travelogue - risking one's life in the world's most dangerous city to track down an amateur music group - it segues into a potent ...
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Mainland China still undecided on Oscar entry
Two days before the entry deadline, China's Film Bureau, under the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), says it still hasn't decided on which film it will submit to the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards. However, it looks likely that The Knot, a love story ...
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Antalya Golden Orange film festival unveils line-up
Turkey's 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (October 19-28) has unveiled a strong 12-film competition line-up for national feature films. Four of these will be world premieres, including Handan Ipekci's Hidden Faces, Dersu Yavuz Altun's Murky Waters, Refugee by Reis Celik and Zeynep's Eight Days by Cemal San. Rounding out ...
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Screwvala re-elected as Producers' Guild president
UTV Motion Pictures CEO Ronnie Screwvala has been re-elected as president of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India. Screwvala, founder CEO of the UTV Group, has led the company to become a global integrated media company. The other office bearers to be re-elected are Adlabs' Manmohan Shetty and ...