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Taiwanese top actress Shu Qi has finished production on her directorial debut feature, Girl, which is scheduled for a 2025 release. She is known for starring in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mumbo, Three Times and The Assassin, as well as Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are The One. She has also won two…

After becoming the first Singaporean filmmaker to win Locarno’s Golden Leopard for A Land Imagined, Yeo Siew Hua will break new ground again with mystery thriller Stranger Eyes, which is the first Singapore film to premiere in-competition at the Venice Film Festival. The Singapore-Taiwan-France-U.S…

Netflix has unveiled plans to bolster its Chinese-language content slate, anchored by the streamer’s hub and partnerships in Taiwan. The streamer’s head of Chinese Language Content, Maya Huang, detailed her team’s originals strategy in Taiwan and also unveiled the English-language teaser and release…

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…

GagaOOLala will release Taiwanese-Thai musical First Note of Love on August 12. The LGBTQ+- and Boys' Love (BL)-focused streamer collaborated with Warner Music Taiwan and Star Hunter Entertainment on the series, which stars Charles Tu and Michael Chang. Tu starred in HIStory4: Close to You, In My Hear…

Warner Bros. Discovery Strikes Film Deal With Former Staffer; ‘The Intern’ To Be Remade Warner Bros. Discovery is getting into business with one of its longest-serving execs in Asia and will remake The Intern as part of the agreement. The entertainment powerhouse has struck a first-look film deal…

EXCLUSIVE: The newly-installed leaders at Taiwan’s GrX studio highlighted the firm’s desire to make inroads in the Korean market as well as a strategic shift to focus on English-language titles. Earlier this month, the studio announced Dennis Wu as Strategy and Chief Investment Officer and Shing-ming…

A trailer for Zero Day, a Taiwanese TV series portraying a Chinese attack on the island has stirred a tide of emotional response. The nearly 18-minute teaser depicts China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) landing in Taiwan after a presidential election, where a “political power vacuum” has also left…

UPDATE: President Joe Biden signed a massive national security bill that requires that ByteDance divest TikTok or face a ban on app stores as soon as nine months from now. Biden gave remarks after signing the bill, highlighting the $95 billion outlay for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. He did not…

Taiwan’s major awards body Golden Horse will have a consolidated presence at Cannes’ Marché du Film for the first time, under the umbrella ‘Golden Horse Goes to Cannes’. With support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture under the ‘1plus4’ Taiwanese content plan, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival…

An anchor for Taiwan’s iNews was live on air relaying a message from the country’s earthquake early warning system when the actual 7.4 temblor hit Tuesday. Video shows the newscaster did not even pause as she began to report on what would later be recognized as the island’s biggest shake in decades…

Sony Pictures Television has struck a deal to rep six titles from Taiwan’s Studio76 in 11 Asian markets. The multi-year, multi-territory distribution agreement covers Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei and other parts of South East…