The Real Events That Inspired ‘Your Name Engraved Herein’, Taiwan’s Highest-Grossing LGBTQ Film of All Time
Director Patrick Liu did not play the trumpet in his high school marching band. Unlike Chang Jia-Han, the lead character in...
‘Netflix Of China’ iQiyi To Hire Over 200 Staff For Its New Singapore Office By 2025
Chinese streaming service iQiyi unveiled on Tuesday (December 15) its Singapore office at Robinson Road, which will serve as its regional...
Disney Sets Luke Kang as Head of Asia-Pacific, Excluding India
Disney veteran Luke Kang has been appointed president of the Walt Disney Company in much of Asia-Pacific. A separate India head is likely to...
Netflix Acquires Chinese Fantasy Film ‘The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity’
Netflix has announced today (December 16) that it has purchased the rights to Chinese fantasy action film The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of...
Thai Director Baz Poonpiriya’s ‘One for the Road’ to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2021
Among the crop of films premiering at Sundance Film Festival 2021 is Thai director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya’s One For The Road. The...
SEAFIC Open House Returns in January 2021 With Its Online Edition
Happening from 8 - 11 January 2021, the fourth edition of the SEAFIC Open House will return fully online with a...
India’s Oscar Entry ‘Jallikattu’ About Rampaging Bull Gets North American Distribution Deal
XYZ Films has acquired North American rights to India’s Best International Oscar entry Jallikattu. The well-received genre pic charts the catastrophic events that...
Films by Late Malaysian Director Yasmin Ahmad Coming to Netflix
Netflix announced that it’s adding three movies by the late Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad to the platform this month. The new...
Taiwan’s ‘I WeirDO’ Named Best Film at London East Asia Festival
The Taiwanese comedy I WeirDO (怪胎) won the best film award Saturday at the 2020 London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF),...
Disney+ Streaming Service Launches in Singapore on 23 February
The long-awaited Walt Disney streaming service Disney+ will launch in Singapore on 23 February. The service will carry titles from iconic film brands...
Kim Ki-duk, Maverick Korean Director, Dies at 59
Award-winning and deeply divisive South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk has died of COVID-19-related complications while on a visit to Latvia. Variety has confirmed Kim’s...
Malaysian Oscar Hopes Rest on Low-budget Horror Film
Imagine you are living alone in a forest with your two children, surrounded by nothing but a looming wall of vegetation,...