Sony Group Corporation reported little changed revenues of JPY2.91 trillion ($19 billion) for the July to September period, representing the second quarter of its April to March financial year. But group-level net income surged by 75% to JPY3.39 trillion ($2.21 billion). The ‘Pictures Division,’ which spans the feature film, TV channels and TV content production […]

The next film by leading Asian director Brillante Mendoza and the directorial debut of New York Asian Film Festival director Samuel Jamier adorn the 2025 production slate of Philippines label Fire and Ice Media. The company is headed by Liza Diño-Seguerra, a former actor and previous head of the Film Development Council of the Philippines. […]

Recent Asian feature films including Makbul Mubarak’s “Autobiography,” Lan Pham Ngoc’s “Cu Li Never Cries,” Nelson Yeo’s “Dreaming & Dying,” Jeremias Nyangoen’s “The Women of Rote Island” and Lyda Leak’s “The Night Curse of Reatrei” adorn the non-competitive lineup of the 2024 edition of the Blue Chair film festival in Luang Prabang, Laos. Previously known […]

Governments and agencies across Asia are taking steps to expand and extend the cross-border film coproduction movement. A seminar called ‘From Eurasia to Global Collaboration’ on Thursday, the third day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, represented a handy recap of funding and structural developments from four countries: The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey. Alex […]

In a stunning sweep of the main awards, Japanese drama “Teki Cometh” snared three top prizes at the closing night ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival on Wednesday. The film was named as the Tokyo Grand Prize, or best film, winner. Its helmer Yoshida Daihachi was named best director. Veteran lead performer Nagatsuka Kyozo […]

Reverse engineering a previously English-language script into a bilingual, dual-location thriller is one possible route to giving Taiwanese feature films a better shot in the international marketplace. So too, is adapting a previously successful romantic novel that could be partly filmed in the U.K. Both approaches were spelled out on Wednesday at a panel discussion […]

Thai film director Paween Purijitpanya has directed “Tomorrow and I,” a four-part anthology series for Netflix. It covers topics including cloning, prostitution, religion and global warming. The series expands the streamer’s roster of Thai content and represents its first from the country in the sci-fi register. The show will upload from Dec. 4. Purijitpanya is […]

The Boys Love (‘BL’) genre is getting bigger. Big enough for producers to organize fan meets similar to those for Asia’s mainstream TV shows or pop music stars. In an event organized at Westar, Taipei, the Taiwan-based LGBTQI-streaming platform GagaOOLala hosted its first fan meet for its original BL musical series “First Note of Love” […]

U.S. and Thailand-based EST N8 has picked up the international rights to Japanese fantasy drama “River Returns.” The film which explores the intersection of tradition, nature, and a young boy’s bravery in the face of impending disaster will be given its market debut at the American Film Market this week before heading to a world […]

Executives at The Taiwan Creative Content Fest were told Tuesday that Thailand will soon increase its location production rebate system to 30% of applicable spending, up from the current 20%. They were also told that $6.7 million of new funding is being made available for the year to next October. Both commitments were made by […]

Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest phones and broadband internet company, unveiled an investment and production slate of two new series and two movies on Tuesday, the first day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest. The new titles are part of the giant firm’s effort to build out the creative industries ecosystem and follow a year on […]

The Taiwan Creative Content Agency and Singapore’s public broadcast group MediaCorp, Tuesday, used the opening day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest as the occasion to sign a memorandum of understanding. Signatories includes TAICCA chair Homme Tsai and MediaCorp’s chief content officer Virginia Lim. The speakers said that the agreement is intended to facilitate co-production […]

“Tape,” a Hong Kong remake of Richard Linklater’s iconic 2001 psychological thriller film of the same title, is heading for the American Film Market and theatrical release in its adopted territory. In anticipation of those steps, the producers are unreeling a “Tape” trailer. “Tape” explores the fallout from a traumatic event at a high school […]

Officials and filmmakers were on hand Tuesday in Taipei to hail the Taiwan Creative Content Fest as a stepping stone for local and Asian creators to mount the world stage. “We have great ambitions for TCCF in the years going forward,” said Sue Wang, deputy minister at Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. She was speaking at […]

South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province is to be a prominent fixture at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) this week in Taipei, Taiwan (Nov. 5 to 8). Through its Gyeonggi Content Agency, the province will operate the Gyeonggi Pavilion to introduce the products and services of promising companies and sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with […]

Luke Hemsworth has joined as a leading cast member in Season 2 of Australian crime comedy-drama series “Deadloch.” The Prime Video series is shooting now in Queensland, Australia. Created and written by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, the series sees two female detectives in harsh and tropical Darwin investigating the death of Bushy, the former […]

Miyagawa Eriko, producer of the Emmy-winning drama series “Shogun” will be on hand to lead a training session at this week’s Taiwan Creative Content Fest that takes place before the TCCF’s centerpiece pitching sessions. Miyagawa is joined by Liu Hsinyi, line producer of the British series “Fleabag,” one of the biggest critical and commercial hit […]

Odin’s Eye Entertainment has come on board as international sales agent to “Stealing Pulp Fiction,” an audacious heist comedy from director Danny Turkiewicz. The company will launch it to overseas buyers at the American Film Market that starts in Las Vegas this week. It had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival on […]

A quartet of stars, headed by Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, were on hand Monday in Tokyo to celebrate “Gladiator II” and its master filmmaker Ridley Scott. Mescal, who plays the gladiator Lucius, said that what separates “Gladiator II” from “Gladiator” is that Scott, who also directed the original 2000 film, “had more resources at […]