Film Production in Australia, Japan, China and Asia-Pacific regions

New Zealand plans for a Wellywood sign

12 March, 2010

Sir Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning film director, is at the centre of a war of words over plans to install a version of the celebrated "Hollywood" hillside sign in New Zealand. by Paul Chapman

Fox International to set up documentary film production centre in Abu Dhabi

Fox International Channels, a subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, will soon set up a documentary film production centre in Abu Dhabi in partnership with the capital’s media zo

Majority of features still shot on film

9 March, 2010

In a digital world, analogue is considered to be on the path of extinction, but film capture is not ready to go quietly into the night.

Abu Dhabi pumps oil riches into media projects

With an economy based on pumping oil and landmarks that include one of the Mideast's grandest mosques, buttoned-down Abu Dhabi has little obvious in common with freewheeling media magnets like Hollywo

Fashionistas embrace 3D

6 March, 2010

BS-TBS, the satellite broadcasting arm of the Tokyo Broadcasting System network, is joining with publisher Shueisha and Panasonic to simulcast a fashion show in 3D at three theaters in Japan on March

3D revolution is here to say, says Avatar creator

1 March, 2010

Cinema’s master of escapism says the era of 3D is upon us said James Cameron, on the Gold Coast to promote his Australian feature epic Sanctum, says audiences now thirst an enhanced reality, rather th

Majidi to make film on childhood of Prophet Muhammad

1 March, 2010

Oscar-nominated Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi is making a film on the childhood of Prophet Muhammad (S).

James Cameron keen to shoot in Australia

26 February, 2010

Avatar director James Cameron is working as executive producer on the film Sanctum on the Gold Coast.

Taiwan to give $200 mln to local film industry

24 February, 2010

Taiwan plans to provide US$200 million in subsidies to bolster the local movie industry against competition from Hong Kong and Hollywood, an official has said.

Out of Thin Air

24 February, 2010

The documentary film 'Out of Thin Air' is about the fledgling Ladakhi film industry.