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Golden Scene takes Hong Kong rights to Blood Brothers
On the first day of Filmart, Taiwan's CMC Entertainment has sold gangster epic Blood Brothers to Hong Kong distributor Golden Scene. The debut film by Alexi Tan will open across Chinese-language territories in August.'Golden Scene is known for distributing high quality commercial pictures,' said producer Terence Chang. 'I look ...
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Chang's Butterfly reborn with CMC backing
Taiwan's CMC Entertainment has boarded Chang Tso-chi's gangster drama Butterfly. The long-gestating film has been a regular participant at project markets since it was first announced in 2003. Chang is attending Filmart's HAF with his forthcoming feature, The Dream.Production of Butterfly halted one year ago when funds ran out. CMC's ...
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Emperor, Kadokawa board Chu Yen-ping's Slam Dunk
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has acquired rights for Hong Kong and Macau to Chu Yen-ping's $10m kung-fu basketball movie Slam Dunk. Kadokawa Herald Pictures had previously stepped up for Japanese rights last November. In addition, Emperor Entertainment Group star Charlene Choi has joined the cast of the high-profile ...
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Turning tide in Hong Kong Affairs
When William Monahan accepted his Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar this week for The Departed, he thanked Felix Chong and Alan Mak, the writers of its source material, Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs. But he could have also paid homage to Media Asia's chairman Peter Lam who greenlit the high-concept thriller.Affairs ...
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Data - Market focus - Turning tide in HK affairs
When William Monahan accepted his best adapted screenplay Oscar for The Departed, he thanked Felix Chong and Alan Mak, the writers of its source material, Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs. But he could have also paid homage to Media Asia's chairman Peter Lam who greenlit the high-concept thriller.Infernal Affairs single-handedly ...
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Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market
Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3D animation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second Taiwan Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei. The presentations were a major component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital Contents Exhibition, held Nov 23-25.The ...
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Exile , Love share top honours at Golden Horse Awards
Aaron Kwok secured best actor for the second consecutive year at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday night for his role in Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile. The film also took best film and best supporting actor for child star Goum Ian Iskandar. Jackie Chan had ...
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Dragon Fruit wins top prize at Taiwan projects market
Ivan C. Shih's ambitious 3Danimation fantasy project The Adventures Of Dragon Fruit took the main prize at the second TaiwanFilm & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP) event in Taipei yesterday. The presentations were amajor component of the 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital ContentsExhibition, held Nov 23-25.The Adventures Of DragonFruit ...
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Exile, Love share top honours at Golden Horse Awards
Aaron Kwok secured best actorfor the second consecutive year at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday night for his role in Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile. The film also took best filmand best supporting actor for child star Goum Ian Iskandar. Jackie Chan hadpreviously won best ...
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Tsai Ming-liang withdraws Sleep from Golden Horse
Taiwan auteur TsaiMing-liang has withdrawn his new feature IDon't Want to Sleep Alone from the Golden Horse Film Awards, declaring thathe would no longer participate in the event.Tsai has also withdrawn hisfilm from the affiliated Golden Horse Film Festival, despite its slot as theevent's opening gala on Nov 10.Tsai's film, ...
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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...
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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
Thenominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema wereannounced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film arePatrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.MusicalPerhapsLove dominates the race to thefinishing line with 12 nominations ...
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Taiwan gears up for five-pronged Film & TV Expo
The second TaiwanInternational Film & Television Expo was officially unveiled at a pressconference in Taipei today.To be held November 8-26, itencompasses five major events: 28th Golden Horse Film Festival, 43rd GoldenHorse Film Awards, 51st Asia Pacific Film Festival, 40th Golden Bell TelevisionAwards and 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital ...
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Billionaire Gou plans new Chinese studio
Taiwan-based billionaire Terry Gou isinvesting $200m to build a film studio in northwest China. Gou announced theproject on a visit to his ancestral hometown of Jinchengin Shanxi province, near to where the new studio isplanned in Zhezhou county. Upto 40% of the investment is expected to come from local government ...
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Taipei film festival wraps with record ticket sales
The 8th edition of theTaipei Film Festival closed this weekend with ticket sales of $300,000, almost50% up on last year's box office record.Cheng Yu-chieh's Do Over, receiving its world premiere,was voted best film in the Taipei Grand Awards by both the jury and festival audience.The $30,000 prize was presented at ...
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White knight rides in to save Taiwan's oldest studio
Taiwanese businessman GouTai-chiang is acquiring a majority stake in Taiwan's oldest film studio, the Central Motion PictureCorporation (CMPC), which was facing closure following its sale to the ChinaTimes Group at the end of last year. Gou is chairman of localelectronics subcontractor Foxlink, whose clients include Apple, Microsoft andNokia, although it's ...
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Lin launches Taiwan's first venture capital film fund
Taiwanese entrepreneur AlanLin has launched Media Vantage, Taiwan's first venture capital company specialising in the entertainmentand cultural industries.Lin, president of EmersGroup, has raised $240m over a six-year period towards planned initial capitalof $300m for the fund. While Media Vantage will prioritise television seriesand film projects, general manager Diane Chou, a ...
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Taiwan's oldest studio closes
Taiwan's oldest film company, the Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC), hasofficially closed its studio lots and once-popular theme park in northern Taipei marking the symbolic end of an era for local cinema.No recent films have shot at the studio lots, although Jay Chou's music videofor Jet Li's Fearless was recentlyfilmed ...
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Water takes best picture at Bangkok
DeepaMehta's Water took the best pictureaward at last night's Golden Kinnaree Awards, held during the BangkokInternational Film Festival which comes to a close on Monday. The jury said the film was chosenfor its important and timely universal message about the misuse of religion.Water's producer David Hamilton had come under pressure ...
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Thailand and Malaysia to collaborate on digital content
Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA) and Malaysia's Multimedia Development Corp (MDC) have signed anMoU for greater collaboration between the digital content industries of eachcountry, embracing computer games, feature films and animation. The agreement was signedduring the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival by SIPA's president, ManooOrdeedolchest, and MDC's vice president, ...
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