Astro Shaw ups ante with production, pickups
Malaysian film and TV conglomerate Astro Shaw has picked up rights in several territories to upcoming action film Bunohan (formerly Bunga...
Japanese bestsellers to flood big screen
"Norwegian Wood," "Confessions," "Closed Note" and "Paradise Lost." These Japanese films, set to be released in Seoul next month, have one...
Vintage Bollywood studio faces uncertain future
Mehboob Khan has carried equipment at the Filmistan Studio for the last 40 years, rubbing shoulders with some of the greatest...
A Director Who Can Recall His Past Lives
In the 10 months since Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" was awarded the Palme d'Or...
Porn Stars, Clad? They Seem to Appeal to Indonesian Filmgoers
It was a cloak-and-dagger moment in Indonesia's culture war between peddlers of titillation and Islamist conservatives. In a run-down maternity hospital...
Japan crisis evokes comparisons to its pop culture disaster narratives, historic events
Like Hollywood in the 1970s, with its queasy procession of upside-down ships, crippled airplanes and towering infernos, postwar Japanese popular culture...
Kim appointed chairman of KOFIC
Kim Eui-suk has been appointed as chairman of the Korean Film Council. The appointment was announced by the Ministry of Culture...
Cloud over 3-D erotic film’s fate
SINGAPOREANS thinking that the eye-popping 3-D remake of the 1991 Hong Kong erotic classic Sex And Zen will be screened here...
ScreenSingapore garners support from global film community
The Board of ScreenSingapore (BOSS) has announced the initial tranche of high profile names from across the global film community who...
Dain Said Talks BUNOHAN
Malaysia's Dain Said first appeared in the pages of Twitch with Dukun. The debut feature from the prominent commercial director was...
Can 3-D technology save the moviemaking business?
2-D or not 2-D? That question - whether movies are worth the multimillion-dollar investment to become three-dimensional - has split filmmakers,...
Hollywood makeover for YouTube
Google is deepening its ties with Hollywood by enlisting top stars to supply original content for YouTube in a bid to...