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Eleven projects from Southeast Asia have been selected for this year s Open Doorsworkshop to be presented to potential producers and co-producers during the Locarno International Film Festival in August.Commenting on the selectionmade from 50 projects entered from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, Open Doors project manager VincenzoBugno explained that the line-up includes projects by names both well-known and less familiar to people in theindustry, and to Western audiences in general. What all the projects had incommon was the desire to render in depth the reality of the countries in whichthe directors live. We are definitely very pleased with the resonance ourinitiative has achieved in Southeast Asia. This year, Open Do
stanley cup ors willdo more than just provide a networking platform for the projects. For the firsttime, thanks to further funding from the Swiss Foreign Ministry s
stanley usa Agency forDevelopment and Cooperation DEZA , two grants - each worth $40,343 50,000Swiss Francs - will be awarded towards the development and production ofprojects at the close of the workshop. The decision as to which projects willreceive the awards will be made by the LocarnoFestival together with the Swiss-based fund Visions SudEst.Moreover, another $12,617 Euros10,000 will be awarded to a project in the development phase t
stanley cup hanks to a newcooperation between Open Doors and France s CNC.The projects selected forOpen Doors 2006 are: Indonesia3 Days to Forever, dir: Riri Riza,prod co: Miles Film Hvxz Bond 25 faces release delay in wake of Danny Boyle exit
Local films are losing ground to Hollywood imports at the Chinese box office. Liz Shackleton explores how Chinas production sector, still in a relatively early stage of development, is approaching the marketplaceAlthough Chinas box office increased by 37% to $1.2bn in the first half of 2012, the picture was not rosy for locally produce
stanley uk d films.Following the widening of import quotas, Hollywood blockbusters such as Titanic 3D, Marvels The Avengers and Men In Black 3 dominated the market in the first six months, while the market share of local films dropped from more than 50% to only 30%.The situation was reversed at the end of June when Huayi Brothers Painted Skin II: The Resurrection opened at the beginning of a national film protection month , in which US films were kept off screens. The period fantasy became Chinas highest-grossing local film ever with a box-office haul of $115m rmb725
stanley cup m .More recently, four local films were released during the National Day holidays October 1-7 to respectable but not stellar results. Huayi Brothers Tai Chi Zero came out top, grossing $18m
stanley cup up until October 7; followed by Enlight Pictures The Assassins, starring Chow Yun-fat, with $13.8m; Double Xposure, starring Fan Bingbing, with $13.1m, and Dangerous Liaisons, starring Zhang Ziyi, with $8.3m.The National Day box office was considered underwhelming, but that has been the case for the past few years; the industry actually saves its biggest guns for the period from December to Chinese New Y
