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Festival report: Shanghai International Film Festival
Shanghai-born Wong Kar-wai heads up the international competition jury for this year's Shanghai International Film Festival(SIFF), replacing the late Anthony Minghella.Sixteen films compete for the festival's main Jin Jue Award, which is heavy on European entries. Local films are represented by Hasichaolu's Urtin Duu and Gao Qunshu's Old Fish (a.k.a. ...
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Shanghai announces line-up, Wong Kar-wai to head jury
The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced its line-up, with Wong Kar-wai as president of its main competition jury. The fest will take place June 14 - 22.Sixteen films compete for the festival's main Jin Jue Award, which is heavy on European entries. Local films are represented by ...
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China's Chengtian buys controlling stake in Golden Harvest
Mainland China's Chengtian Entertainment Group has picked up a 55.9% majority stake in Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Group.Beijing-based Chengtian previously secured its place as the largest single shareholder in the Hong Kong entertainment group last November. The latest series of deals took Chengtian's 19.7% stake in Golden Harvest to 55.9%.Chengtian ...
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Portico pacts with Vividas to bring streaming to Taiwan
Taipei-based Portico Media has signed a deal with Vividas Group to become the exclusive agent of its internet video streaming technology in Taiwan. Portico also has a non-exclusive licensing deal for the Greater China region. While there are no content deals to announce at this stage, Portico believes that the ...
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Lust, Caution sweeps Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the 44th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei with seven wins including best feature, best director, best actor and best adapted screenplay. The film had received eleven nominations. Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories took best actress for Joan Chen's performance and best original screenplay. The ...
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Dream, Nanking share top prize at Taipei projects market
Clara Law and Yim Ho shared the top award at the 3rd Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) held Dec 4-6, dividing the cash prize of $15,500. Ironically, runner-up Sherwood Hu walked away with $9,300. Law's $2m Like A Dream follows an American-born Chinese who travels from New York ...
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Golden Horse Awards announces new nominations
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced additional nominations for the Golden Horse Film Awards to be held on Dec 8 in Taipei. The unusual reconvening of the jury on Sunday night fills gaps created by the withdrawal of Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Li Yang's Blind Mountain under pressure ...
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Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion unveils line-up
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced the 17 feature films and television series selected for the third edition of the Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP). The event takes place December 4-6 as part of the 5th Taiwan International Film & TV Expo (TIFTE). Modeled on other project ...
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Lust, Caution leads nominations for Golden Horse awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the nominations for Taiwan's 44th Golden Horse Film Awards with nods in eleven categories including Best Feature Film. Also competing for the top prize and in multiple categories are Zhang Yang's Getting Home, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories, Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Doze ...
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Lust, Caution rejected as Taiwan's Oscar entry
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles has rejected Taiwan's submission of Lust, Caution as its official nomination for the foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards. With no official financing or major cast from the island, Ang Lee's spy thriller, which was filmed in mainland ...
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Taiwan gears up for 5th Film & Television Expo
Details have started to emerge about the 5th Taiwan International Film & Television Expo (TIFTE) which will take place from Nov 17 and culminates with the Golden Horse Awards on Dec 8. Five events will take place under the umbrella of the expo: 41st Golden Bell Television Awards (Nov 17) ...
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Lust, Caution has Oscar-qualifying opening in Taiwan
Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) is expected to imminently announce Lust, Caution as the country's official bid for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards. The uncut version of the film opens in Taiwan and Hong Kong tonightahead of its North American opening, which enables it to qualify for the ...
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Thai horror Alone finds company in Taiwan
Thai horror film Alone has scored the biggest opening ever for a Thai film in Taiwan. The Phenomena and Dedicate production from the directors of Shutter opened in Taiwan on July 27 and made $187,000 over the three-day weekend in Taipei. In its first five days on release, it has ...
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BANGKOK: Right Beyond launches first Taiwanese-Thai co-production
At the Bangkok Film Market, Right Beyond Films has launched international sales of The Fatality, billed as the first ever co-production between Thailand and Taiwan. In the horror film, an unsuccessful man in Taipei attempts suicide only to wake up in the body of a coma victim in Bangkok with ...
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Fortissimo seduced by Lee's Help Me Eros
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide sales rights outside Taiwan and Malaysia to Help Me Eros, directed by Taiwanese actor-turned-filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng. The film tells the story of a stock-broker who finds comfort in marijuana, suicide hotline counsellor Chyi and local betelnut seller Shin after a market crash leaves him ...
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Tsai Ming-liang takes top prize at Taipei Film Festival
The Taipei Film Festival has awarded its $30,000 grand prize to Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone. Tsai, a regular competitor at the Taipei Film Festival, had withdrawn the film from last year's Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards. 31 recent Taiwan films competed for the grand prize ...
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Edward Yang dies of cancer aged 59
Director Edward Yang, who ignited the Taiwan New Wave with his debut feature That Day On The Beach, died on Friday afternoon at his home in Beverly Hills from colon cancer, aged 59. Born in Shanghai in 1947, Yang moved to Taiwan with his family two years later. He graduated ...
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Chou's Secret directorial debut set for summer release
Hong Kong's Edko Films officially unveiled Taiwanese star Jay Chou's directorial debut Secret in Shanghai today. The shooting of the film, budgeted at $2.5m, was as tight-lipped as the film's title.Edko announced that the film will be released almost simultaneously in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong in late July or ...
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Taiwan's Gay Pride
Taiwan can stake its claim as the gay movie capital of Asia in 2007. Internationally, its position was crowned in February when lesbian drama Spider Lilies won the Teddy Award for best feature at the Berlin International Film Festival. At home, the three local releases of the year to date ...
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Taiwanese drama Spider Lilies blossoms in home market
Zero Chou's idol drama Spider Lilies had a strong opening this weekend in Taipei, securing $71,400 on four prints for independent distributor Atom Cinema, and clinching fifth position in the chart. The film's striking screen average of $17,850 is the third largest of the year, behind only 300 and Ghost ...
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