Go East

Immer unübersichtlicher werden die Film-Finanzierungsmodelle und Gewinnerzielungsideen außerhalb der üblichen Förder- und Hollywoodstudiostrukturen. Begehrlich gehen Blicke nach Osten. Vergleiche zum Gesamtzusammenhang auch das Paul-Schrader-Interview im neuen Heft. Zwei Meldungen der vergangenen Tage passen sehr gut dazu:

Ferrara Going East

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Film Annex (http://www.filmannex.com), online film promotion and distribution company, announced today that it has joined forces with acclaimed filmmaker, Abel Ferrara, in a new Chinese-American film venture. They will be attending the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival to seek investors for a slate of films to star both Chinese and American actors. The projects will be filmed in Mainland China as well as their home base New York City... 

“China is a booming market with over 1 billion viewers and we want to produce movies there,” said Film Annex's founder and president Francesco Rulli. Embracing and bringing together Chinese actors and filmmakers with their American counterparts is a great opportunity for all concerned. Film Annex co-founder Tommaso Rulli, who has spent the last decade in Shanghai creating and developing a profitable textile company, will lend his vast experience and expertise in the Chinese market.

“In the vast, one-world aspect of the Internet, Francesco and Tommaso, have shown me the difference in ‘using rather than being used,’ said Abel Ferrara. With that in mind, we are here to take our next logical step as independent and productive filmmakers. The time to personally explore and experience China is now.

RKO offeriert sein Archiv

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The library of classic Hollywood films by RKO Pictures is being put up for foreign-language remake at FilMart. The studio  is now offering 700 feature films through Asia Film Group, a consortium of Asian and Middle Eastern film distributors represented by Meng King, a Los Angeles-based financier. King and RKO's director of development Jon Reiman are in Hong Kong at the market.

"Based upon market research and analysis and producer and distributor feedback", says Meng King, managing partner of Asia Film Group. "We estimate that 3% — 5% of the titles we have, if executed and marketed correctly and released timely, can potentially become box office successes. And with that also comes the ability to further reduce risk in terms of time and cost by working from completed source material," said King in a statement.