State-owned Wasu will deliver Bollywood content and Indian originals as part of its SVOD services.
CHIME NEWS
HBO Asia’s Adventure Of The Ring starts production
Taiwanese filmmaker Nelson Yeh is on board as showrunner with actor-director Kitamura Tayoharu as director.
Nintendo, Tencent reveal plans for Switch release in China
Tencent will localise some games and use its cloud infrastructure to power Nintendo’s online services in China.
iflix pulls out of Middle East market following Africa exit
Pan-Asian streamer recently closed a $50m funding round with investors including Fidelity International.
Netflix ramps up production of Korean originals
New slate includes five dramas and one movie as streamer taps into global demand for Korean content.
Netflix unveils first look of Sacred Games second season
Kalki Koechlin and Ranvir Shorey have joined the cast of Season 2 of the Hindi-language original.
CHIME FEATURES
INTERVIEW: Gaurav Gandhi on why India is a key territory for Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video has so far launched half a dozen Indian originals across three languages and has a further 30 in development.
Korean cinema grapples with rising competition on VOD platforms
BUSAN: Korea’s film industry needs to harness big data and marketing strategies in order to compete with other forms of content on VOD platforms.
CHIME FESTIVALS
FESTIVALS: Korea’s Height Of The Wave wins special jury prize in Locarno
Special mentions went to The Science Of Fictions, directed by Indonesia’s Yosep Anggi Noen, and Maternal, from Italy’s Maura Delpero.
FESTIVALS: Mosaic Portrait, Ode To Nothing to premiere in Karlovy Vary
Zhai Yixiang’s Mosaic Portrait and Dwein Baltazar’s Ode To Nothing are among the films screening in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival.
FESTIVALS: Still Human takes two top prizes in Udine
Oliver Chan’s Still Human won both the Audience Award and the Critics Award at this year’s edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Italy.
FESTIVALS: A First Farewell, You Have The Night score at HKIFF
Lina Wang’s A First Farewell and Ivan Salatic’s You Have The Night won the top prizes at this year’s Firebird Awards at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.