Barunson E&A, the Korean production banner best known for backing Bong Joon Ho’s multi-Oscar winner Parasite, has boarded Zona Merah: Dead City, a feature film adaptation of the hit Indonesian horror series Zona Merah.
The Seoul outfit will handle international sales on the project, produced by Indonesia’s Screenplay Films, and launch it at the upcoming Cannes Marché alongside Inherit, the new horror feature from Thai hitmaker Banjong Pisanthanakun. The deal extends Barunson’s ongoing push into Southeast Asian cinema, as the Korean company continues to assemble a portfolio of saleable genre titles from the region.
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The original Zona Merah debuted as an original series on Vidio, the Emtek Group-owned platform that has emerged as Indonesia’s leading domestic streamer. Set in the fictional town of Rimbalaya, the show follows Maya as she searches for her missing younger brother Adi amid a rapidly spreading zombie outbreak, racing to
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