Global streaming giant Netflix has made a significant ongoing commitment to production of original content from Southeast Asia and in the Chinese language.
For 2024, Netflix has unveiled a slate of four Chinese-language series, all hailing from Taiwan. From Thailand, it detailed seven series and one film. From Indonesia, it has committed to five films and a series co-written and directed by the consistently successful Joko Anwar, marking his first partnership with the streamer.
Additionally, Netflix has confirmed the appointment of Maya Huang as its head of Chinese-language content.
The moves stand in sharp contrast to the mid-January happenings at rival global streamer Prime Video, which is cutting staff in the region and ending its brief experiment with Southeast Asian originals.
In Indonesia, Netflix says it is broadening its storytelling with a range of genres including comedy, action, fantasy, and sci-fi thrillers.
“Nightmares and Daydreams,” Anwar’s debut project for the company,...
For 2024, Netflix has unveiled a slate of four Chinese-language series, all hailing from Taiwan. From Thailand, it detailed seven series and one film. From Indonesia, it has committed to five films and a series co-written and directed by the consistently successful Joko Anwar, marking his first partnership with the streamer.
Additionally, Netflix has confirmed the appointment of Maya Huang as its head of Chinese-language content.
The moves stand in sharp contrast to the mid-January happenings at rival global streamer Prime Video, which is cutting staff in the region and ending its brief experiment with Southeast Asian originals.
In Indonesia, Netflix says it is broadening its storytelling with a range of genres including comedy, action, fantasy, and sci-fi thrillers.
“Nightmares and Daydreams,” Anwar’s debut project for the company,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
"Why does everyone want to kill us?" Netflix has unveiled the main official trailer for the animated series spin-off called Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, continuing the Kung Fu Panda movie series on streaming. This series picks up after the last one and continues with the original cast returning for more. It follows Po who partners up with a no-nonsense English knight named Wandering Blade to find a collection of four powerful weapons before a mysterious pair of weasels do, then save the world from destruction. DreamWorks made three Kung Fu Panda movies, the last one debuting in 2016; then made yet another animated series called Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny on Amazon's Prime Video. This next new series features the voices of Jack Black as Po, Rita Ora as Wandering Blade, James Hong as Mr. Ping, Chris Geere as Klaus Dumont, Della Saba as Veruca Dumont, Rahnuma Panthaky,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“The Dragon Master is here.” So proclaims Jack Black’s Po the Panda in the official trailer for Netflix/DreamWorks Animation’s new animated series Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight.
In the trailer, we see the first footage of Black’s Po, in a reprisal of his role from the Kung Fu films, the first time he’s voiced the character in a television series. Black first voiced Po for the original Kung Fu Panda film in 2008, then reprised the role for Kung Fu Panda 2 in 2011 and Kung Fu Panda 3 in 2016.
Rita Ora also stars as no-nonsense English knight Wandering Blade, along with James Hong as Mr. Ping. Cast also includes Chris Geere as Klaus Dumont, Della Saba as Veruca Dumont, Rahnuma Panthaky as Rukhmini, Ed Weeks as Colin and Amy Hill as Pei Pei.
In the series, per the logline, when a mysterious pair of weasels...
In the trailer, we see the first footage of Black’s Po, in a reprisal of his role from the Kung Fu films, the first time he’s voiced the character in a television series. Black first voiced Po for the original Kung Fu Panda film in 2008, then reprised the role for Kung Fu Panda 2 in 2011 and Kung Fu Panda 3 in 2016.
Rita Ora also stars as no-nonsense English knight Wandering Blade, along with James Hong as Mr. Ping. Cast also includes Chris Geere as Klaus Dumont, Della Saba as Veruca Dumont, Rahnuma Panthaky as Rukhmini, Ed Weeks as Colin and Amy Hill as Pei Pei.
In the series, per the logline, when a mysterious pair of weasels...
- 6/16/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Moving Image programme “Once in a Blue Moon – Experimental Images” by Ko I-cheng co-presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) and Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Centre, supported by Spotlight Taiwan Project will be held at the Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre on 16 November 2019 (this Saturday). Two versions will be screened – Director’s Cut and Audience’s Choice. This is a programme of the Taiwan Arts Festival.
The film “Blue Moon” is directed by Ko I-cheng, one of the leading figures from the film movement New Taiwanese Cinema. Blue Moon is about an unpredictable love story in a city. The film is separated into five parts, respectively labeled “red”, “orange”, “yellow”, “green” and “blue”. These parts, on separate reels, can be presented in different orders, weaving 120 possible stories of a romantic triangle. All the versions have different rhythms, stories, feelings and endings. This experimental film breathes the mysteriousness,...
The film “Blue Moon” is directed by Ko I-cheng, one of the leading figures from the film movement New Taiwanese Cinema. Blue Moon is about an unpredictable love story in a city. The film is separated into five parts, respectively labeled “red”, “orange”, “yellow”, “green” and “blue”. These parts, on separate reels, can be presented in different orders, weaving 120 possible stories of a romantic triangle. All the versions have different rhythms, stories, feelings and endings. This experimental film breathes the mysteriousness,...
- 11/15/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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