Akunna Cook’s Next Narrative Africa Fund has spent the past year making the case that African storytelling is a serious global market that the entertainment industry has consistently underestimated. Now the organization has some numbers […]
Patrick Brzeski
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Bang Si-hyuk, the founder and chairman of K-pop powerhouse Hybe — the agency home of supergroup BTS — is facing possible arrest after South Korean police moved Tuesday to secure a warrant for his detention […]
Disney+ is making moves to boost its output of live-action originals from Japan, a longstanding ambition for the company’s Asia-Pacific content team that has been given greater urgency as the House of Mouse works to […]
Perfect Crown is Disney‘s new streaming king in the Korean drama category. The smash-hit rom-com, which launched on Disney+ on April 10, has achieved the platform’s biggest-ever viewership for a Korean series within five days […]
Netflix is keeping its K-drama pipeline pumping. The streamer revealed Thursday that it has begun production on The Facade of Love, a new romance series from Mo Wan-il, the hitmaking director behind the JTBC juggernaut […]
Beloved specialty distributor Janus Films has acquired all U.S. rights to The Samurai and the Prisoner, the latest feature from influential Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, which will soon make its world premiere at the 79th […]
There’s a moment early in Beast — a raw, pulse-quickening opening sequence when the film lights up the screen and tips its hat to what’s to come. Directed by Tyler Atkins and anchored by a […]
In Beast, Australian director Tyler Atkins (Boasch & Rockit, aka Ocean Boy) sets out to do something more ambitious than simply stage bone-crunching fight sequences. His debut feature in the MMA arena is as much […]
Korean auteur Na Hong-jin is finally headed back to Cannes. A decade after his visceral supernatural freakout The Wailing wowed festivalgoers, the genre mercenary is set to return to the Croisette this May with the […]
Disney+ is deepening its push into live esports. The streamer said Thursday that it has expanded an existing partnership with the Korea eSports Association (KeSPA) to livestream a wider slate of major Korean and pan-Asian […]
Celebrated Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho’s much-anticipated foray into 3D animated filmmaking is beginning to come into focus. The multi-Oscar winner and his producers on Thursday revealed a title, story summary, target release date and […]
Banjong Pisanthanakun, the Thai filmmaker behind genre landmarks Shutter and Pee Mak, is returning to the director’s chair for Inherit, a horror feature produced by GDH 559, Thailand’s most creatively versatile and commercially consistent studio. […]
Netflix has begun production on Long Vacation, a new Korean romance series from Lee Jung-hyo, the director behind the global mega-hit Crash Landing on You, and writer Jung Hyun-jung, one of Korea’s most prolific romance […]
Shinya Tsukamoto, the iconoclastic Japanese filmmaker best known for the body-horror landmark Tetsuo: The Iron Man, has set a Japan release for his latest feature, Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?, an English-language drama based […]
Japanese director Nanako Hirose, who trained under Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda at his Tokyo-based film collective Bunbuku Inc., has unveiled her second feature, Between Two Lovers, a romantic drama centered on a married woman […]
The stakes were impossibly high, but the long-awaited results appear to have delivered. Nearly four years after K-pop supergroup BTS stepped away from the public eye to fulfill South Korea’s mandatory military service, the world’s […]
Disney+ has set spring launch dates for two of its anticipated Korean originals, with the romantic comedy Perfect Crown premiering April 10 and the crime thriller Gold Land debuting April 29 as the streamer continues […]
Netflix is heading back to the streets of Shinjuku. The streamer has set City Hunter 2, a sequel to its hit Japanese live-action adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s beloved manga, with a global launch planned for […]
Eric Schrier, Disney’s head of international local originals, admits he was “a little hesitant” when he first heard the pitch to remake the hit FX series The Americans as The Koreans — a big-budget, local-language […]
Netflix and BTS may have lucked out with the weather for their much-hyped, globally streamed reunion concert — the forecast for Saturday night in Seoul is calling for clear skies — but a less predictable […]
PCCW Media has locked down a June 2026 launch for The Season, its glossy Hong Kong-set limited series co-produced with SK Global, the studio behind Crazy Rich Asians. The rollout, announced at Hong Kong’s Filmart […]
Japan’s Nippon TV and Hong Kong producer-studio MakerVille are bringing the bittersweet comedy-drama Life’s Punchline to Hong Kong with a new Cantonese-language remake set for a 2026 broadcast on ViuTV. The deal was announced on […]
Malaysia used the opening day of Hong Kong’s Filmart to make a pitch to international producers: the money for its screen-production incentive isn’t going away. Malaysia’s National Film Development Corporation (FINAS) told industry attendees that […]
KC Global Media Distribution has acquired exclusive worldwide rights to Eat With Xiami, an 11-episode culinary travel series currently streaming on China’s Bilibili platform. The deal was announced Tuesday morning at Filmart, Asia’s leading film […]
While Hollywood’s unions and studios are engaged in an ongoing power struggle over AI’s future role in filmed entertainment, Asia‘s screen industries are rushing toward a full embrace of the technology. For an indication of […]
The Ink Factory has expanded the cast of its Chinese-language adaptation of The Night Manager, adding a slate of new supporting players and special appearances. The additional lineup was unveiled on the eve of Hong […]
The 19th Asian Film Awards honored three of the region’s most recognizable stars Sunday night at Hong Kong’s Xiqu Centre as Zhang Ziyi was presented with the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award, Liu Haoran the […]
The Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF), the $50 million investment vehicle aimed at scaling film and television production across Africa and its diaspora, has unveiled its inaugural slate of development projects, featuring work from talent […]
The Hong Kong International Film Festival will mark its 50th anniversary next month with a pair of Asia premieres from two of the region’s most closely watched young auteurs. Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s We Are […]