Edko Films’ action thriller “The Furious” claimed the number one spot at the China box office during the June 12–14 weekend, unseating a long-running local juggernaut with an RMB76.1 million ($11.2 million) frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Having debuted on June 11, the film has amassed a cumulative total of $13.9 million. Directed […]

South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have launched a public-private consultative body to negotiate a voluntary theatrical holdback agreement, aiming to finalize terms by August without waiting for pending legislation. The committee – formally titled the Public-Private Consultative Body for Improving Korean Film Distribution Structure – held […]

The U.K. and Ireland box office found its force over the weekend as Disney’s “Star Wars” spinoff “The Mandalorian and Grogu” captured the top spot, debuting to £5.2 million ($7.1 million). Universal’s musical biopic “Michael” moved to second place in its sixth week of release but sustained momentum, taking $2.4 million for a robust cumulative […]

Singapore-based film investment group Triple Green CineCapital (TGC) has formalized a partnership with Chánh Phương Films on “The Scourge” (Tai Ương), the Vietnamese video game horror adaptation that Skyline Media launched to buyers at the Cannes Film Market this month, marking TGC’s debut investment in Vietnam. TGC made its industry debut at Indonesia’s JAFF Market […]

“Cricket is at a crossroads,” says Uday Shankar. As vice-chair of JioStar – the behemoth Indian platform that serves more than 500 million viewers, spends some $3.9 billion a year on content, and was built, in no small part, on the back of cricket rights – he is not speaking as a neutral observer. The […]

The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has unveiled the competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards, spanning five categories across fiction, documentary, animation, and short film. The festival runs June 12-21. The main competition features 12 titles drawn from 15 countries and territories, all of them world premieres. Among the contenders are Indonesia’s “My Own […]

The title of Vivek Couto’s opening address at APOS 2026 uses the word “reset.” He has a more precise term in mind. “It’s not actually being reset,” says Couto, CEO and executive director at Media Partners Asia, which produces the annual summit running June 16–18 in Bali. “It’s actually being redefined. The whole industry is […]

The leaders of three of the world’s most influential film festivals told Shanghai on Sunday that the role of the festival circuit in discovering and developing new voices has never been more critical – and that personal connection, not data, remains the truest compass for identifying talent. Tricia Tuttle, director of the Berlin Film Festival, […]

Rory Kinnear will play economist and Bloomsbury Group figure John Maynard Keynes in the world premiere of “The Standard of Living,” a new play by three-time Olivier Award winner James Graham, producers Brian and Dayna Lee and director Nicholas Hytner revealed Monday. Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova, making her West End debut, will star alongside […]

India’s largest streaming platform, JioHotstar, is recruiting for more than 75 AI roles as the platform moves to build out a dedicated artificial intelligence division, the company revealed Wednesday. The push spans engineering, production automation and creative technology, with the streamer positioning India’s multilingual scale and engineering base as the foundation for a broader global […]

Fresh from its world premiere in the Midnight Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival, Yeon Sang-ho’s action-horror zombie extravaganza “Colony” re-energized the South Korean box office during the weekend of May 22–24. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the big-budget feature grossed a spectacular $9.4 million […]

There are no trailers on a boat. This is the logistical reality that Toby Stephens found himself confronting somewhere in the middle of shooting “The Season,” Hulu’s new drama about the bad behavior of Hong Kong’s sailing elite – a show that, almost by design, offered its cast nowhere to hide. “Normally when you’re filming, […]