Ellen Y. D. Kim has been appointed director of the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm), the industry platform of Busan International Film Festival (Biff).
Kim begins her four-year term on Friday (March 8) and joins from Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), where she has spent eight years as programme director.
The move comes eight months after the resignation of Oh Seok Geun, who stepped down as Acfm director in June 2023 as one of a string of high-level departures from Biff last year.
The appointment also marks Kim’s return to the leading festival and industry platform in South Korea having...
Kim begins her four-year term on Friday (March 8) and joins from Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), where she has spent eight years as programme director.
The move comes eight months after the resignation of Oh Seok Geun, who stepped down as Acfm director in June 2023 as one of a string of high-level departures from Biff last year.
The appointment also marks Kim’s return to the leading festival and industry platform in South Korea having...
- 3/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
Jack Neo’s Money No Enough 3 has collected a record-breaking $7m over Chinese New Year in Malaysia and Singapore.
The comedy drama, about post-Covid financial woes, stars a trio of Singapore’s most well-known actor-comedians – Neo, Mark Lee and Henry Thia – alongside an ensemble of local celebrities. It had led the box office in both territories since opening on February 1 in Singapore and February 9 in Malaysia as of yesterday (February 28).
With cumulative takings of $3.2m in Singapore, it has become the top performing Asian film since the Covid pandemic in 2020, overtaking Korean blockbuster Train To Busan: Peninsula and Japanese anime Demon Slayer.
The comedy drama, about post-Covid financial woes, stars a trio of Singapore’s most well-known actor-comedians – Neo, Mark Lee and Henry Thia – alongside an ensemble of local celebrities. It had led the box office in both territories since opening on February 1 in Singapore and February 9 in Malaysia as of yesterday (February 28).
With cumulative takings of $3.2m in Singapore, it has become the top performing Asian film since the Covid pandemic in 2020, overtaking Korean blockbuster Train To Busan: Peninsula and Japanese anime Demon Slayer.
- 2/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Commission
The BBC has commissioned feature documentary “Abba: Against The Odds” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Swedish group winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place this year in Sweden. The documentary will be produced by multi-award winning documentary makers Rogan Productions (“Freddie Mercury: The Final Act”) and directed by James Rogan. It will tell the story of Abba’s greatest period of musical achievement framed between the albums “Arrival” (1976) and “Super Trooper” (1980).
The film is funded by several European broadcasters including BBC, Ard/Wdr, France Télévisions, Svt and Dr. It will feature access to Svt (Swedish public television) archives including rare footage that captures the band’s rise to fame and the negativity they faced at home.
In the U.K. the film will be shown on BBC One and iPlayer in May. BBC Studios will distribute the film internationally and will present it to buyers at BBC Studios Showcase,...
The BBC has commissioned feature documentary “Abba: Against The Odds” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Swedish group winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place this year in Sweden. The documentary will be produced by multi-award winning documentary makers Rogan Productions (“Freddie Mercury: The Final Act”) and directed by James Rogan. It will tell the story of Abba’s greatest period of musical achievement framed between the albums “Arrival” (1976) and “Super Trooper” (1980).
The film is funded by several European broadcasters including BBC, Ard/Wdr, France Télévisions, Svt and Dr. It will feature access to Svt (Swedish public television) archives including rare footage that captures the band’s rise to fame and the negativity they faced at home.
In the U.K. the film will be shown on BBC One and iPlayer in May. BBC Studios will distribute the film internationally and will present it to buyers at BBC Studios Showcase,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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