Streamlined Insights
Last weekend I finally went to see Ne Zha 2 and began to understand why this Chinese animated film has grossed US$2bn. First the basics – it’s a visually jaw-dropping movie, truly epic in scale, but also contains humour (mostly toilet humour, but still amusing); pathos, with more
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Dreams (Sex Love), from Norway's Johan Haugerud, took the Golden Bear, while China's Huo Meng was awarded best director for Living The Land.
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HKIFF Industry Project Market has launched a new animation section and entered a partnership with Jakarta Film Week.
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Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has selected 15 projects for the Works-in-Progress (WIP) section of this year’s HAF.
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Lunar New Year release, an animation based on Chinese mythology, has overtaken the record set by war drama 'The Battle Of Lake Changjin'.
Streamlined Insights
Before we dig into recent events, I just want to explain that Streamlined is changing its format this year to get back to its roots – which is to make your life easier by summarising all the major news in the content industries of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Over
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Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has selected 25 In-Development projects for this year’s HAF.
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It’s been a familiar story over the past few years – Chinese audiences have been focusing on local movies to the extent that even Hollywood films are not performing well at the China box office. But it’s easy to lose sight of what success looks like in such a
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Local films grossed 5.5% more than US studio titles, headed by Emperor Motion Pictures’ The Last Dance.
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Imported films had a market share of around 21% at the China box office in 2024, with US studio and Japanese anime titles the two most popular categories.
Streamlined Insights
For the last free Streamlined of the year, we’re looking at the 2024 box office of Asia’s biggest theatrical market, mainland China, and a market where local films just broke the all-time admissions record, Indonesia. In addition, the links round-up below includes all the international sales
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Taiwanese horror comedy 'Dead Talents Society' took five prizes in the technical categories.