China’s Top Online Video Sites Headed for IPOs
Youku, China's leading online video company, aims to raise $150 million on the New York Stock Exchange. This signals a belief...
FILM
Shanghai Film Group may acquire MGM
Shanghai Film Group Corp may purchase partial or entire equities of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc or MGM, an American media company that filed...
Splash Licenses ‘SNTV’ to Korea’s FashionN
Entertainment and celebrity news content provider Splash News has licensed SNTV: Splash News TV to T-cast Channels' FashionN in Korea. Splash...
Imira inks pre-ATF sales
Barcelona-based animation house Imira Entertainment has sold a number of programmes across Asia ahead of December's Asian Television Forum (ATF). Skylife...
Film music sends Central Railways cash registers ringing
The music launch of filmmaker Farah Khan's home production Tees Maar Khan had all the usual trappings of a typical Bollywood...
Win-win deals for film producers and TV in India
Always strapped for cash, film producers have found new and willing financiers in television broadcasters. TV channel are striking innovative deals...
Animal Works: Where art meets conservation
Would you risk your life for what you believe in? Tammie Matson "“ co-creator of Animal Works, a coalition of film-makers,...
Film on climate change bad boy says ‘Cool It’
Humanity has what it takes to adapt to global warming and there's no need to panic: so goes the message in...
Indie film “˜Donor’ bags awards in Brussels
An independent Filipino film has received two awards at the 37th Brussels International Independent Film Festival (BIIFF), the Department of Foreign...
SMI Corp expands cinema circuit
SMI Corporation, a Hong Kong-listed film investor and operator of cinemas in China, is spending RMB98.5 million ($14.8 million) in two...
Satoshi Kon’s DREAMING MACHINE resumes production
When director Satoshi Kon began work on The Dreaming Machine (Yume-Miru Kikai) he knew something that his fans around the globe...
Sinema interviews Lincoln Chia on “Sisters”
Sinema interviews Singaporean filmmaker Lincoln Chia on his new film "Sisters" and issues he faced as an independent filmmaker. He shared...