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If you are in China and you are planning on watch Transformers II in the cinema, you will see how popular this film it is in China, I just found this article in Variety.com and it seems this movie’s box office has gone huge all over the world.

Here is the article from Variety(By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK)

Aside from its whopping five-day domestic tally — the second highest of all time — Paramount’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” broke records in several countries overseas, leading to a massive $387.3 million worldwide through Sunday, one of the best global launches ever.

The five-day opening gross of $201.2 million from 4,234 theaters domestically easily eclipsed the $152.4 million earned by “Spider-Man 2,” which previously held the five-day record for a Wednesday launch. And “Transformers 2″ nearly matched the best five-day gross of all time: $203.8 million for WB’s “The Dark Knight.”

Overseas, the action tentpole opened to an estimated $162 million, the fourth best international opening of all time, after “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” ($216.3 million), “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” ($193 million) and “Spider-Man 3″ ($164.9 million). The sequel’s foreign cume was $186.1 million when factoring in the $24.1 million earned the previous weekend in the U.K. and Japan.

Although the Michael Bay-helmed pic sucked up most of the oxygen at the box office, other pics scored notable numbers. Disney-Pixar’s “Up” surpassed Par’s “Star Trek” to become the year’s highest-grossing title at the domestic B.O. (The film’s cume through Sunday was an estimated $250.2 million, boosted by the added charge for 3-D tickets.)

Warner Bros.’ “The Hangover” passed $200 million at the worldwide B.O. Domestically, it saw $17.2 million from 3,525 for a cume of $183.2 million. Abroad, film earned $10.1 million from 1,250 runs in 29 markets for a cume of $46.2 million and worldwide tally of $229.2 million.

Several specialty titles popped, including Summit Entertainment’s “The Hurt Locker.” Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the film posted a per-screen average of $36,000 as it opened in four theaters in L.A. and New York, grossing an estimated $144,000.

The weekend’s only wide release besides “Revenge of the Fallen” was Cameron Diaz-Abigail Breslin drama “My Sister’s Keeper.” The film saw modest biz in grossing $12 million from 2,606 runs to come in No. 5 for the weekend.

In other holdover action, Fox’s “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” crossed the $200 million mark internationally as it grossed $5.2 million from 4,000 runs in 62 territories for a foreign cume of $202.3 million and worldwide tally of $365.5 million.

Sony continued to see strong international results for “Terminator Salvation,” which grossed $10.1 million for the sesh from 7,470 theaters in 70 markets for a foreign cume of $193.7 million. Accounting for territories where Sony isn’t distributing, pic’s total foreign gross is $219.5 million.

The romantic comedy “The Proposal,” from the Mouse House, continued to click. The Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds starrer dipped 45% to an estimated $18.5 million from 3,058 runs; cume is $69 million. The pic grossed another $7.2 million overseas for the weekend, putting the worldwide cume at $91.7 million in its first 10 days.

On the domestic front, Focus Features’ dramedy “Away We Go” landed in the No. 10 spot in its fourth week, grossing $1.7 million as it expanded into 495 locations for a per-screen average of $3,390 and cume of $3.4 million.

And Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works,” from Sony Pictures Classics, grossed $386,286 in its second frame for a per-screen average of $11,036 and cume of $765,433.

Miramax’s Michelle Pfeiffer period piece “Cheri” grossed $408,000 as it opened on 76 screens for a per-location average of $5,368.

Not having such a good weekend domestically was Sony’s Jack Black-Michael Cera laffer “Year One,” which tumbled 70% in its second frame to $5.8 million for a domestic cume of $32.3 million.

But the big news, of course, is the “Transformers” sequel, the first tentpole since “Dark Knight” to truly rocket into the B.O. stratosphere.

Paramount co-chair Rob Moore said the pic played to a much broader audience than its predecessor, noting that the first time around, males made up 60% of the audience. This time, that number dropped to 54%.

More important to Moore: Despite negative reviews, more than 90% of those polled as they left theaters said the sequel was as good as, or better than, the first.

“To us, that’s the most compelling data point,” Moore said. “The thing that works so much about this franchise is the level of optimism and fun that’s inherent in it. It transports you to a world that stretches reality but is a ton of fun.”

Par execs were particularly pleased, since the studio pegs the pic’s production and worldwide marketing at $350 million — which the film already surpassed in five days.

In terms of just the three-day weekend, “Transformers 2″ grossed $112 million domestically. That, plus the $163 million international opening, makes for a worldwide weekend bow of $274 million, the third best after “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World End” ($356.1 million) and “Spider-Man 3″ ($315.9 million).

The international haul was led by China at $21.9 million — the biggest opening of all time for an English-language movie. While it played strongest in Asia, “Revenge of the Fallen” performed ahead of the first film in almost every market, proving that the franchise has taken hold, Paramount prexy of international distribution Andrew Cripps said.

“Transformers,” which Par and DreamWorks debuted over the Fourth of July holiday in 2007, opened to $70.5 million domestically on its way to cuming $319.2 million in North America and $700 million worldwide.

Imax also participated in the “Transformers 2″ bounty. The pic played on 169 Imax screens domestically. Five-day opening gross at Imax sites was a record $14.4 million.

The “Transformers” franchise was among the projects that reverted to Paramount after its split with DreamWorks, although Steven Spielberg remained an exec producer on the sequel and DreamWorks’ logo appears at the opening of the pic and in ads.

Adam Goodman, who arrived at Par six months ago from DreamWorks, helped guide both “Transformer” pics. Just days before the “Transformers” sequel opened, Paramount chair-CEO Brad Grey announced that Goodman was being upped to Paramount Film Group prexy as production toppers John Lesher and Brad Weston were exiting the studio.

Grey also lauded Bay’s ability to connect with audiences. He said the entire Par family is “proud to be behind him, and we look forward to our collaboration with him in the future.”

“Transformers 3″ is tentatively slotted to open July 1, 2011.

In the meantime, “Revenge of the Fallen” is expected to remain a sizable B.O. force in the coming days, looming over such new fare as 20th Century Fox’s 3-D toon “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” which opens Wednesday.

Also opening Wednesday is Universal’s Johnny Depp gangster pic “Public Enemies.”

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Yu Nan, one of the jury members for the Asian New Talent Award during the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, had an exclusive interview with correspondent from Daily News yesterday. As a jury member, Yu Nan expressed her excitement to see so many spirited works, and she hoped these fresh film directors could stick to their own style, not to be distracted by material gain. Besides work, for the first time, Yu Nan replied to questions related to love in her real life and confessed that she was hoping for true love.

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As one of the most anticipated films of the year, WHEAT, directed by He Ping, one of the greatest filmmakers of the time, is confirmed to premiere as the opening film of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival.

He Ping was the jury chairman for SIFF’s Asian New Talent Award 2006 while the film is produced by Classics Media and PolyBona.

Wheat is the latest production of He Ping, a masterpiece concentrating 6 years of great effort after his Warriors of Heaven and Earth in 2003. The film has been progressing in a low profile ever since the very beginning. However, as the latest work by an extraordinary director among the 5th generation, WHEAT is regarded by the insiders as one of the most expected films of the year after the film’s trailer and poster being released at home and abroad.

With spectacular scenes, rich details, a well-connected story and lyrical visual language, while at the same time revealing a cultural connotation rarely seen in Chinese entertaining films these years, WHEAT was commented by a well-respected filmmakers as “an entertaining film for learned people”.

WHEAT will obviously be the most surprising Chinese film of the year and will change totally the aesthetic experience of the audience.

In addition to the top-class director, a group of top-class actors and actresses including Fan Bingbing, Huang Jue, Wang Xueqi, Wang Zhiwen and Wang Ji join the film. Besides, famous for his discovering and fostering young film talents, He Ping offers Du Jiayi and Wang Jiajia important roles. This makes both the insiders and the audience looking forward to seeing the film.

Actually, from the beginning of the year, SIFF started to discuss with the director and the producer of the film on the possibility of WHEAT’s being the opening film of SIFF 2009. Although the two sides are both excited about the idea, the producer didn’t make a final decision since the real short time for the post-production and director’s willing not to bring down the artistic and industrial criteria. After 6 months’ post-production, WHEAT caught up with the schedule and is now on its way.

“I will try my best to make the perfect integration of art, entertainment and film techniques as always.” said He Ping. For a film with perfect scenes, this remark is the best promise. “He has always been so slow in shooting films. This time he spent 6 years making a film, it must be a most expected one.” a highly expectiation of his fans on the internet.

As is early released, SIFF’s film of this year is unprecedented both in quantity and quality, which is most surprising. Now that WHEAT will open the festival, naturally people will be more looking forward to this grand meeting.

Director He Ping and his staff will hold a press conference in Shanghai on June 12th, after which does it begin the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival.

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If you haven’t heard of Spark 2009, you can actually take a look at this Wiki Page

Spark09 was a conference in Shanghai, China that defines its mission as “Igniting new ideas, opportunities and potential in 2009″. It was created due to the negative emotional effect the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009 had on businesses and individuals.

The presentations, each 20 minutes in length, covered the four areas of Humanity, Environment, Business, and Science. Topics included “How can a pig farmer save the world?”, “How can buildings defy gravity?”, and “How does cooking with spice save the panda?”. Speakers were from 51Give, Arup, Bayer, Frog Design, Haworth (company), IDEO, Microsoft, and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Spark09 was organised by ClarkMorgan which is a corporate training company with headquarters in Shanghai, China. All 19 talks of Spark09 are provided for free viewing online.

This year’s Spark meeting was hold in the tallest building of China : Shanghai World Financial Center

We are glad that we sponsored a meeting like Spark 09, and can’t wait to see the Spark 10.

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Just a quick update for you guys who will come to Shanghai International Film Festival, we will have our booth in Shanghai International Film Festival Market Area, Our film booth number is 221, hope to see you in the Festival.

Our manager Charlie Moretti will join this festival, same time our distribution manager Gregory will show up in the festival, too. Feel free to contact us for the visit! Hope to see you there!

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Arriving on foreign soil, where everyone speaks a different language and the tastes, smells and sights are all so unlike anything you are used to, can be a daunting experience. An experience that immediately hits expats on arrival in modern, cosmopolitan Shanghai.

Then magnify this feeling if you are starting a business. And more people are starting businesses because Shanghai is hot and its rapid rate of growth makes it a very desirable place to set up shop.

Four expats — from Canada, France, the United States, and Germany — explain how they started their own unique and successful companies. And an Australian is getting ready to start his own.

They are thrilled at the opportunities, while citing regulations as inevitable but not unsurmountable to those with drive, ingenuity and often a Chinese partner.

“My approach was a lot more speculative,” says Charlie Moretti, Bright Shadow Films managing director.

Starting his Shanghai-based film production company in 2004, the French producer explains, “I threw myself in at the deep end. Only buying a one-way ticket here, I thought, ‘I am at an age when I can take a risk so I may as well do it now in a place that is growing and where there is not yet much competition.”

Moretti has been invited to be in the “Who’s Who” guide to Shanghai and his company is starting to be recognized internationally as a small facilitator to the Chinese movie industry. (continue reading…)

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If you guessed California or Florida or Canada or Romania, you’d be off by a few thousand miles. The World’s Largest Studio is a new documentary that promises to provide a picturesque view of Hengdian World Studios, located a few hours’ drive south from Shanghai in the eastern part of China. Producer Charlie Moretti told Shanghai Daily that the film “looks at the lives of the businessmen who started the studios with just 2,000 yuan (US$261), the gardeners who tend the grounds, the actors and actresses and everyone else in between.”

Construction on the gigantic studios, which now cover more than 800 acres, commenced in 1996 when director Xie Jin wanted to recreate 1850s Canton for his film The Opium War. Businessman Xu Wenrong got the job done in just three months and the filmmaker was so impressed he recommended the location to Chen Kaige for his next project, The Emperor and the Assassin. That film required a huge new palace set, and Xu was happy to oblige. “We used up more dynamite than this county had used in its whole history,” he later told People’s Daily Online. A few years after that, Ang Lee filmed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the studios and Zhang Yimou shot Hero. It’s notable that both Chen (The Promise) and Zhang (Curse of the Golden Flower) returned to work at Hengdian with their bigger-budgeted pictures.

The World’s Largest Studio screened for the first time in Shanghai this week. According to Moretti, a 27-year-old Frenchman who co-directed with Matthew Clarke, “people should soon be able to watch the documentary on international channels. We are also exploring the possibility of making an extended DVD.” A handsome-looking teaser, jammed with clips from films shot at the studio, is available on the production company’s web site.

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So here is the list of equipment and software we have been using:

MONITORING:
surround 5.1 setup ADAM S3a + SUB12
surround 5.1 setup DYNAUDIO BM5a + BM9s
COMPRESSOR:
UNIVERSAL AUDIO 2-1176 (2 mono channels / Stereo)
SOUND CARDS:
RME FireFace 800 (with TimeCode IN-OUT & VIDEO IN) – 28 IN OUT AD/DA/DD at 24bit/48kHz (up 24bit/192kHz in Smux mode)
RME HDSP.9652 (with 8 analog output channels card) – 26 IN OUT DD/DA at 24bit/48kHz (up 24bit/192kHz in Smux mode)
CREAMWARE Pulsar II
CONVERTER:
RME ADI.8.DS (8 channels AD/DA, up to 24bit/96kHz)
analog/ADAT/TDIF-1 / DA-88 compatible
CONTROLLER:
MACKIE Control Universal Pro + 2 MCU ext. Pro
MICROPHONES:
AKG C414 B.XLII Stereo Set (for Mono/Stereo/MS micking)
OKTAVA mk-012 Stereo Set (with caps Set: hyper-cardio, cardio, omni)
RODE NT5 Stereo Set
SHURE SM57
SHURE Beta 57
SHURE Beta 52
AKG C2000B (x2)
(+ 6 Shockmounts, 2 articulated mounts & 3 stereo bars)
HEADPHONES:
Sennheiser HD 25-1
Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro
AKG K271S
SHURE Ear Monitor E2
HEADPHONE AMPLIFIERS
2 Presonus HP4 (4 stereo-channels each)
MICROPHONE STANDS:
2 Giant Stands
4 Standard Stands
2 Small Stands
2 Mini-Stands
COMPUTERS:
Proc: Intel Core2Duo E6600 Quad Core
Mother Board: ASUS P5K.E
RAM: CORSAIR TWIN.X (2Gb)
BLACKMAGIC Intensity (HDMI graphic card)
HHD 32Go Raptor [10000 r/min] system
HHD 74Go Raptor [10000 r/min] sessions
HHD 500Go [7200 r/min] data / libraries
HHD 130Go [7200 r/min] video
2 x HHD 500Go ext [7200 r/min] backup
3 SCREENS: 22″ WideScreen
APPLE MACBOOK.PRO 17″ – Intel Core2Duo 2.4Ghz – HHD 160Go.7200r/min
SCREENS:
Projector Screen 250×140 (5.1 Mixing Stage)
40″ WideScreen / HDMI (Rec Room)
VIDEO PROJECTOR:
SONY Bravia / HDMI

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