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Isao Matsuoka, a 52-year veteran of Japanese studio Toho, will receive the APSA 2009 FIAPF Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at next week's Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony.
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Quentin Tarantino, in Japan this month to promote "Inglourious Basterds," took the opportunity to act in some TV commercials for mobile carrier Softbank.
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Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese version of "The Ring" and the second English version "The Ring Two," has been tapped to direct Zanuck Independent's supernatural thriller "Voice From the Stone."
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Warner Brothers Japan is to make a version of “Chushingura,” known elsewhere as “The 47 Ronin,” starring Koji Yakusho (“Memoirs of a Geisha” “Shall we Dance?”) and Koichi Sato (“Nobody to Watch Over Me”).
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"A Brand New Life," a debut feature by a French-Korean filmmaker Ounie Lecomte and produced by Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong, has sold to Japan's Crest International.
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The Japanese live action drama "Ichi" from director Fumihiko Sori ("Ping Pong") is getting a one night stand at a dozen Canadian multiplexes on November 26.
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The final stage of Japan’s leading talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo going private is underway, led by a TV networks consortium in a 54 billion yen ($600 million) deal.
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The big screen version of NTV drama series "Saru Lock" is scheduled to open on February 27 next year, just four months after the final episode was broadcast on the small screen.
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Sony posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss but exceeded expectations amid cost cuts and predicted that the back half of its fiscal year will see stronger film and video game results.
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Sony posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss but exceeded expectations amid cost cuts and predicted that the back half of its fiscal year will see stronger film and video game results.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. reported a 52% slide in quarterly profit on Thursday, hurt by slowing demand for its flagship Wii video game console and the strong yen, and slashed its full-year forecast.
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Imagi Entertainment's "Astro Boy" bombed in Japan, but Chinese viewers seem to have taken a liking to the Japanese cartoon character.
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Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its DSi hand-held video game player with a larger screen in Japan as early as this year to kick-start sluggish demand.
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Japanese pay-TV group Sky Perfect JSAT has revised upwards its forecast earnings for the half-year completed in September.
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Bulgaria’s “Eastern Plays” was the big winner at the 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival, as it took the Sakura Grand Prix for best film, best director for Kamen Kalev, and best actor for Christo Christov, at the closing ceremony on Sunday
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Bob Pisano of the Motion Picture Association Friday called on Japanese lawmakers and film industry executives to do more to tackle online piracy.
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Short, specialized and satisfactory seemed to be the verdict of sales agents and distributors attending TIFFCOM, the Tokyo Film Festival's accompanying market. Actual deals, however, were few in number.
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If movie industry buyers and sellers are tired of the non-stop caravan of film sales events, they scarcely showed it as the Tokyo festival's three-day market got underway Tuesday, less than a week after Pusan's Asian Film Market wrapped.
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Warner Entertainment Japan has hired Taichi Fukuda as general manager for Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, overseeing both home video and digital distribution businesses.
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The big boys continue to rule the Japanese boxoffice, with “Kaiji,” a Nippon Television Network and Toho collaboration, spending a second weekend at No. 1, while “Astro Boy” has rocketed out of sight after only a week in his spiritual home.
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"Babel" director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is back in Japan, a nation he says has long fascinated him -- this time, as head of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
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Tastes of "Sex and the City" and TV formats galore made up a "Hollywood how-to" staged as part of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
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The 22nd edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival opened Saturday at the Roppongi Hills complex where both the TIFFCOM market and most of the screenings will take place.
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The Pusan International Film Festival wrapped up by giving its New Currents Award to Shawkat Amin Korki's drama "Kick Off" and So Sang-min's comedy "I Am in Trouble."
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The 10th Filmex will open for its anniversary edition on November 21 with a symposium featuring “Beat” Takeshi Kitano, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Tokyo Sonata”) and Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Air Doll”).
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"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" |
| Release | Wknd. B.O. | Cume B.O. |
| 1. | The Twilight Saga: New Moon
| 124.1
| 132.1
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| 2. | 2012 | 107.1 | 348.1 |
| 3. | A Christmas Carol
| 18.5 | 60 |
| 4. | This Is It
| 5.7 | 168.2 |
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| Up
| 3 | 379 |
| Figures in millions. Weekend of Nov. 20-22, 2009 |
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