Liz Shackleton

HKIFF Industry has announced the 17 projects selected for the In Development section of this year's Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), including new projects produced by Singapore's Anthony Chen, Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan and Japan's Eiko Mizuno-Gray.  Chen is producing Malaysian project S…

Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) has reportedly dropped four titles from the contenders list for this year's ceremony, along with the Best Asian Chinese-language film category, prompting concerns over government censorship. According to local press reports, three Hong Kong movies have disappeared…

India's box office reached a record-breaking $1.48 billion (Rs133.95 billion) in 2025, surpassing the record achieved in 2023 of $1.35B (Rs122.26B), according to figures from Ormax Media.  Last year was also the biggest ever for Hindi films, which grossed a combined $609.78 million (Rs55…

EXCLUSIVE: Taiwan-based 66cc Company has closed a sale to Japan on Juno Mak's Cannes Midnight title Sons Of The Neon Night, which has been acquired by leading Japanese distributor Toho-Towa.  The Hong Kong crime drama, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sean Lau Ching-wan, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Louis…

One Cool Group's Back To The Past, starring Louis Koo and Raymond Lam, brought some much-needed cheer to the Hong Kong box office on New Year's Eve, grossing a record-breaking $1.48m (HK$11.54m) on its opening day. The strong opening placed the film at number seven in the year-end chart of Hong…

Two veteran producers, Singapore's Leonard Lai and Vietnam's Hang Trinh, are spearheading the launch of a $3M investment venture, Triple Green CineCapital (TGC), to finance and produce commercially-driven features for the fast-growing Southeast Asian market.  The launch is being announced today…

Chen Yu-hsun's A Foggy Tale, a historical drama set during Taiwan's White Terror period, was awarded Best Feature and three other prizes at this year’s Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. The film was also awarded Best Original Screenplay for Chen's script, Best Art Direction (Wang Chih-cheng and You…

EXCLUSIVE: Squid Game Star Anupam Tripathi is leading Korean omnibus film App The Horror, which is currently in post-production. The film was recently on sale at the American Film Market with Hong Kong-based outfit Autumn Sun handling in Asia and Russia and Anthology21 handling rest of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Thai rising star 'Bank' Thiti Mahayotaruk (Hormones: The Series) will head the cast of action comedy Esarn Seven, produced by Bangkok-based production outfit TSixtySix in collaboration with Kliff Studios, 185 Films, True-CJ Creations and White Light Post. TSixtySix is the…

Taiwanese IP development company Mirror Fiction Inc has launched a film and TV production company, Mirror Entertainment, with a $10M (NTD310M) co-investment with Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA).  The Taipei-based outfit is developing ten films and TV series projects over the next five…

Toru Kubota's war documentary My Camera, My Gun was presented with the TAICCA X CNC Award at the close of TCCF Pitching, a four-day pitching event held during Taiwan Creative Content Fest (November 4-7). The Portugal-Japan collaboration received a cash prize of $30,000 from the two sponsors of…

Erica Wang Min-hui, CEO of Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), has just overseen her first edition of the government-backed agency's flagship event, Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), but she is no stranger to the organisation and its various activities.  Wang joined TAICCA in August…