Metro Manila fest hails record edition
Box office takings hit a record high of P530 million at the annual Metro Manila Film Festival, which wrapped earlier this...
Is the Arts Creation Fund money well spent?
IT SOUNDS like an arts scheme that is too good to be true. Say you want to write a novel or...
Filmmakers Debut Enhanced Online World For Their Independent Film
There were 3,661 feature film submissions to the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, the year that filmmakers Jentri Chancey and Lorie...
New Script Development Fund for Chinese Film Industry
Forget the moves of Jackie Chan, or the stereotypical portrayals of Asian culture that have populated the cinema of the West...
DreamWorks Animation Goes to Bollywood
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. announced that it is fast-tracking the development of Monkeys of Bollywood, a Bollywood-style animated musical adventure set...
Online piracy websites attract billions of visits yearly
A study on illegal traffic levels on 43 file-sharing sites has found that they attract more than 53 billion visits per...
Independent film Zeitgeist attracts following
Saskatoon will be part of what hopes to be the largest premiere screening of an volunteer-based, independent movie this weekend. The...
Chinese Delegation Tours L.A for Box-Office Success Formula
Five Chinese film veterans and ambitious newcomers are seeking to hire Hollywood help to achieve their goal: exportable movies. Though China's...
A Malaysian success
MALAYSIAN filmmaker Liew Seng Tat's script has been selected for The Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab. In this workshop, some of the...
Double Negative Adopts Shotgun Software for Production Tracking and Collaboration
Shotgun Software, developers of the Shotgun web-based production tracking and collaboration system, announced that Double Negative has purchased a global Shotgun...
Korean box office falls in 2010
Theatrical audiences in South Korea dropped last year to 148 million from 156 million in 2009, a decline of 5%. The...
B.C. film industry pushes for more co-operation with China
Representatives of B.C.'s film and television production industry say more effective international co-production agreements are essential for the health of their...