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After notching box office successes with Rewind and A Very Good Girl, ABS-CBN has produced another hit: Un/Happy For You. In its opening five days, the romance film has grossed 150M Philippine pesos ($2.65M), with over 450,000 admissions. The film will open across the U.S. and Canada on August…

Thai breakout hit How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has landed North American distribution. The film has secured a theatrical release through Well Go USA, and in China via Teamer Media, South Korea (NK Contents), UK & Ireland (Vertigo Releasing), the Netherlands (Vedette Film), Belgium…

Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has selected Old Fox as its entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 2025 Oscars. Old Fox is directed by Hsiao Ya-chuan, who won Best Director at the Golden Horse Film Awards last year for the film. Hsiao has directed works like Taipei Exchanges…

EXCLUSIVE: Unscripted series Manila Matriarchs has cast singer-actress Karylle Tatlonghari-Yuzon, as well as fashion professional Myrza Sison and entrepreneurs Joanna Preysler-Francisco and Trisha Bantigue-Tsao. Filming in San Francisco and Metro Manila, the eight-part series will follow the lives of…

The Busan Story Market unveiled 29 original Korean IP selections today, which includes 11 books, eight webtoons, six web novels, and four stories. These projects were selected from a pool of 237 submissions by 110 companies. The event is part of the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), taking place…

Top Indian stars Ishaan Khatter and Bhumi Pednekar will headline the cast of Netflix’s The Royals. Veteran actress Zeenat Aman will also make a special appearance in the series, marking her Netflix debut. With a career spanning more than five decades, she is well-known for her roles in titles like Ha…

Tving led subscriber growth in the first half of 2024, although Netflix remains the streaming industry leader, according to an analyst’s report. Overall, the Korean SVOD market added 705,000 net new subscribers in H1 to total 20.8 million by end-June, according to AMPD, the digital measurement…

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has unveiled three leadership changes, amid other management changes. Nachiket Pantvaidya will become the Business Head of Sony Entertainment Television (SET), marking his third stint with SPNI. He will also continue to serve in his current role as General Manager…

Netflix has landed the Southeast Asia streaming rights for Thai box office hit How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, set to premiere on September 12. The streamer added that the film will also be available in more countries later this year. Besides topping the domestic box office, How to M…

Seoul-based Finecut has secured distribution deals in more than six territories for high school drama film Victory, ahead of the film’s Korean release on August 14. Victory has been acquired by 815 Pictures (North America), Sky Films Entertainment (Taiwan), Lumix Media (Vietnam), PT Prima Cinema…

Nippon TV ‘s Love's In Sight! and Homeroom have landed adaptation deals with Malaysian media conglomerate Astro. These two formats are the Japanese broadcaster’s first-ever adaptation deals in Malaysia. Malaysian independent distributor, Juita Viden, brokered the deal for both formats. Love's In…

Shah Rukh Khan will voice Mufasa in the Hindi version of Barry Jenkins' Mufasa: The Lion King, which releases in India on December 20. His sons Aryan and AbRam will voice Simba and young Mufasa respectively. In the 2019 live-action The Lion King, Khan also voiced Mufasa. "Mufasa has an incredible…