The president of China Film Co-Production Corporation told an Afm panel on Friday that local producers want collaboration with American and international counterparts in order to make better films that can travel.
Speaking at the Producing In China session at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Miao Xiaotian noted how the local talent pool was not yet sufficiently deep to sustain by itself the roughly 600 films that get made annually in his country.
The local production base is booming – Xiaotian estimated it could go up from $4.8bn in 2014 to $7bn this year – as China plays catch-up with Hollywood practices and standards in many areas.
April Ye, CEO of Film Finances China, explained how until recently not a single Chinese film or TV show was bonded.
That is changing as her company, which launched earlier this year, introduces the product to the local industry.
“Directors used to be the boss of state-owned productions,” said Ye, explaining...
Speaking at the Producing In China session at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Miao Xiaotian noted how the local talent pool was not yet sufficiently deep to sustain by itself the roughly 600 films that get made annually in his country.
The local production base is booming – Xiaotian estimated it could go up from $4.8bn in 2014 to $7bn this year – as China plays catch-up with Hollywood practices and standards in many areas.
April Ye, CEO of Film Finances China, explained how until recently not a single Chinese film or TV show was bonded.
That is changing as her company, which launched earlier this year, introduces the product to the local industry.
“Directors used to be the boss of state-owned productions,” said Ye, explaining...
- 11/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
With China‘s National Day holiday week still in swing, the box office got an extra boost this frame thanks to the timely release of Breakup Buddies, a sort of follow-up to 2012’s smash hit Lost In Thailand. Playing on half the screens in the massive market, the film grossed just under $38M in China this weekend, sending its cume since release on September 30 to about $93M. (It also went out in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand at the weekend.) The original film was arguably responsible for a reversal in China’s fortunes in December 2012, when box office share was lagging behind that of U.S. films. That year ended with Hollywood out front but Lost In Thailand made global headlines and bolstered the unofficial practice of blackout periods when no foreign studio movies are released, allowing high-profile local titles to goose box office in the People’s Republic.
- 10/6/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Indomina Releasing is on a bit of a shopping spree.
The new distributor has acquired North American theatrical and home entertainment rights to "Griff the Invisible" and "True Legend," as well as U.S. rights to "Fire of Conscience." "Griff" was picked up in the wake of its world premiere in Toronto, while "Legend" and "Conscience" were acquisitions at the Austin-based Fantastic Fest.
Leon Ford's "Griff," which stars Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood") and Maeve Dermody ("Beautiful Kate"), is about a working stiff moonlighting as a superhero who meets a woman who shares his passion for the impossible.
Nicole O'Donohue produced the film, while Jan Chapman and Scott Meek are executive producers. Screen Australia, Screen Nsw and Fsm financed the project. The deal was negotiated by Indomina vp acquisitions Rob Williams and Fortissimo senior vp Winnie Lau on behalf of the filmmakers.
"True Legend" stars Vincent Zhao ("Dragon Gets Angry...
The new distributor has acquired North American theatrical and home entertainment rights to "Griff the Invisible" and "True Legend," as well as U.S. rights to "Fire of Conscience." "Griff" was picked up in the wake of its world premiere in Toronto, while "Legend" and "Conscience" were acquisitions at the Austin-based Fantastic Fest.
Leon Ford's "Griff," which stars Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood") and Maeve Dermody ("Beautiful Kate"), is about a working stiff moonlighting as a superhero who meets a woman who shares his passion for the impossible.
Nicole O'Donohue produced the film, while Jan Chapman and Scott Meek are executive producers. Screen Australia, Screen Nsw and Fsm financed the project. The deal was negotiated by Indomina vp acquisitions Rob Williams and Fortissimo senior vp Winnie Lau on behalf of the filmmakers.
"True Legend" stars Vincent Zhao ("Dragon Gets Angry...
- 9/28/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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