Indra and Erlina Suharjono, two veterans of the Southeast Asian film industry scene, have launched new corporate venture I.E. Entertainment.
The new company will be involved with developing, producing, marketing and distributing the next generation of Asian film and television. It will work with Asian filmmakers and production studios to create fresh slates that speak to shifting tastes and audiences, and will handle licensing and merchandising for live-action and animation content.
The new company debuts by picking up exclusive distribution and remake rights to the iconic Cathay-Keris Films’ Chinese and Malay libraries controlled by one-time leading studio Cathay Organization. These include 166 Chinese-language titles and 91 Malay titles from the 1950s and 1960s, considered the golden age of Singapore cinema. All titles have been restored and archived in Hong Kong and Singapore.
The first two Cathay-Keris properties being re-developed into contemporary features are “Sun, Moon and Star Part 1 & 2” (1961) and “The...
The new company will be involved with developing, producing, marketing and distributing the next generation of Asian film and television. It will work with Asian filmmakers and production studios to create fresh slates that speak to shifting tastes and audiences, and will handle licensing and merchandising for live-action and animation content.
The new company debuts by picking up exclusive distribution and remake rights to the iconic Cathay-Keris Films’ Chinese and Malay libraries controlled by one-time leading studio Cathay Organization. These include 166 Chinese-language titles and 91 Malay titles from the 1950s and 1960s, considered the golden age of Singapore cinema. All titles have been restored and archived in Hong Kong and Singapore.
The first two Cathay-Keris properties being re-developed into contemporary features are “Sun, Moon and Star Part 1 & 2” (1961) and “The...
- 4/8/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on Vietnamese films, but it evolved to become a yearly review of the cinema of East and Southeast Asia, the only such event in the country.
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
Three
This diversity is already visible in the choice...
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
Three
This diversity is already visible in the choice...
- 10/28/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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