Australia-China co-pro 'Guardians of the Tomb' (formerly 'Nest') stars Chinese mega-star Li Bingbing..
The official co-production treaty between China and Australia entered into force in 2008. Since then, despite growing interest in working with the burgeoning film power, only a handful of official co-productions have been made. They include The Dragon Pearl, 33 Postcards.and The Children of the Silk Road (made under a Mou prior to the signing of the treaty)..
However in the past 18 months, things have started to shift. The biggest co-pro to date, Kimble Rendall.s Guardians of the Tomb (formerly Nest), shot on the Gold Coast early last year, and gangster film Dog Fight shot in Victoria last September. Both films are now in post..
Two other projects, Pauline Chan.s My Extraordinary Wedding and Nadia Tass and David Parker.s Tying the Knot,.have been issued provisional approval but are yet to enter production.
The official co-production treaty between China and Australia entered into force in 2008. Since then, despite growing interest in working with the burgeoning film power, only a handful of official co-productions have been made. They include The Dragon Pearl, 33 Postcards.and The Children of the Silk Road (made under a Mou prior to the signing of the treaty)..
However in the past 18 months, things have started to shift. The biggest co-pro to date, Kimble Rendall.s Guardians of the Tomb (formerly Nest), shot on the Gold Coast early last year, and gangster film Dog Fight shot in Victoria last September. Both films are now in post..
Two other projects, Pauline Chan.s My Extraordinary Wedding and Nadia Tass and David Parker.s Tying the Knot,.have been issued provisional approval but are yet to enter production.
- 4/21/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
China’s Monumental Films will produce with Australia’s Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
Screen Australia announced the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last, to be written and directed by Yiwei Liu at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
The project will be produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The story follows a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland [pictured], providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has come to Queensland as a direct...
Screen Australia announced the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last, to be written and directed by Yiwei Liu at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
The project will be produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The story follows a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland [pictured], providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has come to Queensland as a direct...
- 4/20/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Sydney Films is building a slate of 20 China-Australia co-pros.
Screen Australia and private production outfit Sydney Films announced a slew of China-Australian co-production projects at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
Described as the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last will be directed by Yiwei Liu and produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The film tells the story of a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland, providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has...
Screen Australia and private production outfit Sydney Films announced a slew of China-Australian co-production projects at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
Described as the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last will be directed by Yiwei Liu and produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The film tells the story of a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland, providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has...
- 4/20/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Chongqing.
The extraordinary growth of the Chinese film industry has seen it emerge as a global player. The Chinese industry is looking abroad to futher its filmmaking expertise and help bring its films to an international audience. In If's first China Report, Jackie Keast examines what this means for Australia. As Hollywood and film industries across the world enthusiastically court the Chinese market, can we compete?
The film industry in China is booming. Within just a few years, China has become the world.s second largest market, predicted to eclipse the Us in less than five years..
By 2015, annual ticket sales had reached 44 billion yuan, or $USD6.78 billion — a growth of 48.7 per cent from 2014..
While 2016 saw a slowdown, annual receipts nevertheless tallied 45.7 billion yuan by year.s end.
In 2016, 27 new screens opened across China each day, bringing the country.s total close to 40,000..
Chinese real estate and entertainment conglomerate Wanda...
The extraordinary growth of the Chinese film industry has seen it emerge as a global player. The Chinese industry is looking abroad to futher its filmmaking expertise and help bring its films to an international audience. In If's first China Report, Jackie Keast examines what this means for Australia. As Hollywood and film industries across the world enthusiastically court the Chinese market, can we compete?
The film industry in China is booming. Within just a few years, China has become the world.s second largest market, predicted to eclipse the Us in less than five years..
By 2015, annual ticket sales had reached 44 billion yuan, or $USD6.78 billion — a growth of 48.7 per cent from 2014..
While 2016 saw a slowdown, annual receipts nevertheless tallied 45.7 billion yuan by year.s end.
In 2016, 27 new screens opened across China each day, bringing the country.s total close to 40,000..
Chinese real estate and entertainment conglomerate Wanda...
- 1/30/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Principal photography has begun in Perth on John V. Soto.s (The Reckoning, Needle) latest sci-fi drama Love You Twice.
Jacqueline McKenzie (The Water Diviner, Deep Blue Sea, The 4400) stars as the lead, alongside Myles Pollard (Drift, The Turning), Hayley McElhinney (The Babadook), Shannon Berry (Hunters) and Ryan Panizza. Ben Mortley (Lantana) is a new addition to the cast and will play the role of .Regg., a scientist.
Soto is directing and co-wrote Love You Twice with author Michael White (Equinox, The Medici Secret). It follows a particle physicist (McKenzie) grieving over the loss of her husband who uses a revolutionary invention to bring him back, with dire consequences for their family.
Love You Twice is a Filmscope Entertainment and Convergence Productions film. Soto is producing with Deidre Kitcher, while executive producers are Malcolm and Kate Rudd, Coppelia Tingley, Pauline Chan and Gia Zhang RenJie.
The film has a...
Jacqueline McKenzie (The Water Diviner, Deep Blue Sea, The 4400) stars as the lead, alongside Myles Pollard (Drift, The Turning), Hayley McElhinney (The Babadook), Shannon Berry (Hunters) and Ryan Panizza. Ben Mortley (Lantana) is a new addition to the cast and will play the role of .Regg., a scientist.
Soto is directing and co-wrote Love You Twice with author Michael White (Equinox, The Medici Secret). It follows a particle physicist (McKenzie) grieving over the loss of her husband who uses a revolutionary invention to bring him back, with dire consequences for their family.
Love You Twice is a Filmscope Entertainment and Convergence Productions film. Soto is producing with Deidre Kitcher, while executive producers are Malcolm and Kate Rudd, Coppelia Tingley, Pauline Chan and Gia Zhang RenJie.
The film has a...
- 11/6/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Australia’s biggest ever delegation to the Beijing Film Festival includes producer Alan Lindsay, who is seeking Chinese partners for the animated family film Piccolo The Dolphin Prince, written and directed by Greg Mclean, whose gory breakout film was Wolf Creek.
“It is Romeo and Juliet set in the world of dolphins,” said Lindsay, who is managing director of Vue Group. Since Mclean brought him the concept two years ago there has been considerable R&D on the dolphin characters and continued development on the underlying theme of the human impact on dolphins.
Lindsay will also be meeting with potential partners on Silver Spoon (working title), which he describes as “Downton Abbey set in Shanghai during the turbulent 1930s”. The live action drama inspired by real life focuses on a Chinese family that owns a lavish department store and once lived in Australia.
Lindsay regards China as his “second home” and has developed many partners there. His latest...
“It is Romeo and Juliet set in the world of dolphins,” said Lindsay, who is managing director of Vue Group. Since Mclean brought him the concept two years ago there has been considerable R&D on the dolphin characters and continued development on the underlying theme of the human impact on dolphins.
Lindsay will also be meeting with potential partners on Silver Spoon (working title), which he describes as “Downton Abbey set in Shanghai during the turbulent 1930s”. The live action drama inspired by real life focuses on a Chinese family that owns a lavish department store and once lived in Australia.
Lindsay regards China as his “second home” and has developed many partners there. His latest...
- 4/16/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Pauline Chan.s Darkroom Films and Filmscope Entertainment have signed co-production deals with two Chinese partners for cross-cultural comedy My Extraordinary Wedding.
The alliance means the film budgeted at $5 million, written and directed by Chan, will get a wide release in Chinese cinemas. Due to shoot in Western Australia and China in the first half of next year, the film will follow a wedding that turns into a wild chase from Perth to Busselton and beyond.
The Chinese partners are Zhejiang Hengdian Film Production Company (Hengdian) and China Film Assist (Cfa), whose combined distribution networks encompass 5,600 screens nationwide.
Chan and Filmscope Entertainment.s Deidre Kitcher will produce with Hengdian.s Zhijiang Liu and Cfa.s Geng Ling. This will be the third collaboration between Chan and Liu following 33 Postcards, which she wrote and directed, and Mario Andreacchio.s The Dragon Pearl, which she produced.
.Each of the producers brings their special expertise and resources,...
The alliance means the film budgeted at $5 million, written and directed by Chan, will get a wide release in Chinese cinemas. Due to shoot in Western Australia and China in the first half of next year, the film will follow a wedding that turns into a wild chase from Perth to Busselton and beyond.
The Chinese partners are Zhejiang Hengdian Film Production Company (Hengdian) and China Film Assist (Cfa), whose combined distribution networks encompass 5,600 screens nationwide.
Chan and Filmscope Entertainment.s Deidre Kitcher will produce with Hengdian.s Zhijiang Liu and Cfa.s Geng Ling. This will be the third collaboration between Chan and Liu following 33 Postcards, which she wrote and directed, and Mario Andreacchio.s The Dragon Pearl, which she produced.
.Each of the producers brings their special expertise and resources,...
- 11/12/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Today we have the trailer for the "33 Postcards" drama, starring Guy Pearce, Zhu Lin, Claudia Karvan, Elaine Jin, and Lincoln Lewis. Check it out below. Plot: Dean Randall (Pearce) has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are changed forever. The new movie is directed by Pauline Chan (Little White Lies) and recently appeared at the Sydney Film Festival. At this point, there is no Us distributor on board. Trailer: If you cannot see the player, click here.
- 9/15/2011
- WorstPreviews.com
33 Postcards is a film of special significance, as it marks the first official Chinese-Australian (New South Wales) film collaboration. At the Sydney Film Festival this year, where it had its world premiere, it won the Community Relations Commission Award. Just a couple of weeks later at the Shanghai International Film Festival, where it had its Chinese premiere, its lead actress Zhu Lin won the New Talent Award. Directed by Pauline Chan and inspired by real life events, 33 Postcards tells the story of a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei (Zhu Lin) who has been dreaming of meeting her Australian sponsor of many years, Mr Randall (Guy Pearce). Her opportunity comes when her orphanage travels to Australia to compete at a music festival. However,...
- 7/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
The Dungog Film Festival has partnered with Sydney Theatre to expand its script reading program In The Raw to Sydney.
In the Raw has been expanded to a stand-alone event, held bi-monthly and commencing on February 7.
In The Raw is a program where actors read unproduced screenplays in front of a live audience, offering filmmakers a chance to get their works heard by key industry players and tested with their intended audience. Projects like Pauline Chan’s screenplay Mei Mei (currently in post-production) graduated from In the Raw.
“Having hosted the premieres of such great Australian films as Lucky Miles, Romulus My Father and Men’s Group, Sydney Theatre has long been a friend of the Australian film industry and sees this partnership as an important development in this deepening relationship,” said Sydney Theatre executive producer Jo Dyer.
Tickets can be reserved online, by phone or in person at the Sydney Theatre box office.
In the Raw has been expanded to a stand-alone event, held bi-monthly and commencing on February 7.
In The Raw is a program where actors read unproduced screenplays in front of a live audience, offering filmmakers a chance to get their works heard by key industry players and tested with their intended audience. Projects like Pauline Chan’s screenplay Mei Mei (currently in post-production) graduated from In the Raw.
“Having hosted the premieres of such great Australian films as Lucky Miles, Romulus My Father and Men’s Group, Sydney Theatre has long been a friend of the Australian film industry and sees this partnership as an important development in this deepening relationship,” said Sydney Theatre executive producer Jo Dyer.
Tickets can be reserved online, by phone or in person at the Sydney Theatre box office.
- 1/13/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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