Streamlined Insights
Streamlined is a bit late this week as I’m in Mumbai and spent most of last week bouncing off the back seat of taxis and rickshaws. I’m learning a lot here, but Mumbai traffic didn’t get any better during the pandemic (in fact seems to be much
News
Five-part anthology launches on CTE horror and suspense channel Thrill on October 3.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Entering its third year, the Series section of the 2022 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion selected 20 projects.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) selected 48 film projects, of which eight are works-in-progress.
News
FINAS will be working with the Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines and Taiwan Creative Content Agency on the lab.
Streamlined Insights
Another box office themed newsletter this week. As in Europe and North America, summer box office revenues in East Asia’s biggest markets – China, Japan and South Korea – have given some cause for optimism. I recently wrote a report on post-pandemic box office recovery for the Hong Kong Trade
Korea & Japan
The 3rd edition of TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Gap Financing Market is taking place online October 25-27 and has selected 20 projects.
Streamlined Insights
This week I’m looking at two separate box office phenomena – the opening of what is being billed as the Hindi film industry’s biggest ever film, Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva, and whether it can stem the tide of flops that Bollywood has endured this year, and the surprise success
Streamlined Insights
This has taken much longer than intended, but I’m attempting to bring Streamlined back as a weekly newsletter to shine a light on the many film and TV industries outside of ‘the West’, which the international industry often regards as ‘the Rest’, even though these are the regions that
Middle East & North Africa
A New Old Play was named best film in the Chinese section, while Mediterranean Fever took best film in the World section.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Golden Horse has set Coo-Coo 043 as this year's opening film, while Cheng Wei-hao’s Marry My Dead Body will close the festival.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Wen Chen-Ling and Ding Ning head the cast of boxing drama co-financed by Hong Kong's Celestial Tiger Entertainment.