Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Japan & Korea Set To Become Asia’s Next Offshore Production Hotspots, Says ‘Mortal Kombat’ & ‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Producer E. Bennett Walsh
deadline.comU.S. producer E. Bennett Walsh, who has made films including Mortal Kombat, Meg 2: The Trench and The Kite Runner across the APAC region, says he’s got his eye on Japan and Korea as the next hot destinations for footloose Hollywood productions. “I think the opportunity in Asia is in Korea and Japan,” said Walsh. “Tokyo Vice recently had a great experience in Japan and there are more opportunities for productions like that.
Some pieces of the Marvel movies have filmed in Korea, but that was just scratching the surface.” Japan recently introduced an official production incentive to fund up to one half of the qualifying Japanese spend of international productions, while Korea has been operating incentives for several years.
In addition, Japan’s largest studio Toho recently formed a joint venture production services outfit with established Japan-based producer Georgina Pope (Equals, Giri/Haji). “The opportunities in Japan have been under-estimated – the crew base is developing, and the language barrier is changing.
Everything is becoming more accessible because of the [Tokyo 2020] Olympics,” Walsh said. Walsh was speaking at the MPA Chanel X BAFA Film Workshop, organized by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and BIFF Asian Film Academy (BAFA), at the on-going Busan International Film Festival.
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