Disney’s Korean superhero thriller Moving heads the nominations for this year’s Asia Content Awards at Busan International Film Festival with nods in six categories, followed by Tencent Video’s The Long Season with five nods.
Moving picked up nominations for best creative, best writer (Kang Full), three acting categories and best visual effects. Crime thriller The Long Season was also nominated for best creative, along with best director (Xin Shuang), two acting categories and best visual effects.
Netflix’s The Glory and Delete, from Thailand’s Gdh 559 Company, also scored highly, racking up four nominations apiece (see full list below).
Busan’s awards to recognise streaming and TV content, now known as the Asia Content Awards and Global Ott Awards, recently joined forces with the International Ott Festival, hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Science and Ict and Busan Metropolitan City, to open up its nominations to global content.
Moving picked up nominations for best creative, best writer (Kang Full), three acting categories and best visual effects. Crime thriller The Long Season was also nominated for best creative, along with best director (Xin Shuang), two acting categories and best visual effects.
Netflix’s The Glory and Delete, from Thailand’s Gdh 559 Company, also scored highly, racking up four nominations apiece (see full list below).
Busan’s awards to recognise streaming and TV content, now known as the Asia Content Awards and Global Ott Awards, recently joined forces with the International Ott Festival, hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Science and Ict and Busan Metropolitan City, to open up its nominations to global content.
- 9/12/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Ruja (Chayanit Chansangavej) returns to Thailand from New York with her young daughter Rachel to settle her late father’s estate. Included in her inheritance are two mysterious portraits of a bewitching woman that she is told are worth a fortune, if only they weren’t damaged. Desperate to sell the paintings, Ruja hires Tim (K-pop star Nichkhun), an art restorer, to prepare the canvases for sale. But the cracks in the paint have begun to reveal long-hidden secrets, and as strange phenomena begin to emerge around them, Ruja and Rachel quickly realize their lives are in grave danger.
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- 7/16/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
Opening in theaters and on VOD July 14, Vertical’s “The Modelizer” offers a trailer that sells a romantic comedy that’s part of a new wave of “Hong Kong Films,” which are original features where the subject matter is distinctly Hong Kong but is in English.
Directed by Keoni Waxman and produced, written by and starring Byron Mann (who has seemingly aged about ten minutes since playing Ryu in the 1994 “Street Fighter” movie), the picture is a conventional mix of rom-com tropes (a well-off womanizer must change his ways once he finds someone – played by Rayssa Bratillieri — worth settling down for) and wealth porn, with the obvious hook being that it’s from a locale that isn’t often presented in such a fashion in mainstream Hollywood flicks.
The locale is usually for stranger-in-a-strange-land actioners like Dwayne Johnson’s “Skyscraper” (who co-starred Mann) and Rowann Atkinson’s “Johnny English Reborn...
Directed by Keoni Waxman and produced, written by and starring Byron Mann (who has seemingly aged about ten minutes since playing Ryu in the 1994 “Street Fighter” movie), the picture is a conventional mix of rom-com tropes (a well-off womanizer must change his ways once he finds someone – played by Rayssa Bratillieri — worth settling down for) and wealth porn, with the obvious hook being that it’s from a locale that isn’t often presented in such a fashion in mainstream Hollywood flicks.
The locale is usually for stranger-in-a-strange-land actioners like Dwayne Johnson’s “Skyscraper” (who co-starred Mann) and Rowann Atkinson’s “Johnny English Reborn...
- 6/16/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Hong Kong-American actor Byron Mann (Wu Assassins) has joined the cast of Korean studio Showbox’s Moral Hazard (working title), alongside previously announced Korean stars Yoo Hai-jin (The Night Owl) and Lee Je-hoon (Taxi Driver 2).
Currently in production in Seoul, the film tells the story of Korea’s top Soju manufacturer and its attempts to stave off bankruptcy. While Yoo stars as the CFO of the distillery and Lee as a global investor, Mann plays a Chinese-American investment banker who is also working on the acquisition of the company.
The feature is directed by Choi Yoon-jin, who previously scripted the Korean films Steel Cold Winter (2013) and Office(2015).
In addition to his role in Netflix series Wu Assassins, Mann is known for The Man With The Iron Fists (2012), The Big Short (2015) and Netflix series The Recruit (2022).
He also recently wrote and starred in Keoni Waxman’s romantic comedy The Modelizer,...
Currently in production in Seoul, the film tells the story of Korea’s top Soju manufacturer and its attempts to stave off bankruptcy. While Yoo stars as the CFO of the distillery and Lee as a global investor, Mann plays a Chinese-American investment banker who is also working on the acquisition of the company.
The feature is directed by Choi Yoon-jin, who previously scripted the Korean films Steel Cold Winter (2013) and Office(2015).
In addition to his role in Netflix series Wu Assassins, Mann is known for The Man With The Iron Fists (2012), The Big Short (2015) and Netflix series The Recruit (2022).
He also recently wrote and starred in Keoni Waxman’s romantic comedy The Modelizer,...
- 5/8/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
"Do you want to see what's underneath?" Film Movement has revealed a new US trailer for a Thai horror film titled Cracked, from a filmmaker named Surapong "Top" Ploensang. This already opened in Thailand last year, along with other Southeast Asian countries, but is just now making its way over to America with a release set for in 2023. Thai actress / model Chayanit Chansangavej plays Ruja, who returns to Thailand from New York with her young daughter Rachel to settle her late father's estate. She inherits a painting from her father and hires Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror. The film also stars Nichkhun, Nutthatcha Padovan, and Byron Bishop. This looks legit terrifying, with some scary af shots in this trailer. The paintings are also suitably unsettling, which is important for this kind of film. This horror is...
- 5/5/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Keoni Waxman’s romantic comedy The Modelizer, written by and starring Byron Mann (The Big Short), slating the film for a day-and-date release on July 14th.
Set in Hong Kong’s high octane, ultra-rich fast-lane, The Modelizer follows Shawn Koo (Mann), son of a Chinese tycoon family, and his partner-in-clubbing Narin “Bucky” Sakpiporn (K-pop star Nichkhun), who enjoy a lavish lifestyle of parties, privilege and international model girlfriends. After a string of short-term relationships, Shawn gets a wake-up call, realizing that all the money in the world is not enough to buy the love of a woman. As he begins falling for the charming yet defiant Camila (Rayssa Bratillieri), a Brazilian model unaccustomed to his lifestyle, Shawn must change his tactics and clean up his act if he intends to win her heart.
Also starring Dominika Kachlik, Han Hrzic, Celinde Schoenmaker, Julia Nickson...
Set in Hong Kong’s high octane, ultra-rich fast-lane, The Modelizer follows Shawn Koo (Mann), son of a Chinese tycoon family, and his partner-in-clubbing Narin “Bucky” Sakpiporn (K-pop star Nichkhun), who enjoy a lavish lifestyle of parties, privilege and international model girlfriends. After a string of short-term relationships, Shawn gets a wake-up call, realizing that all the money in the world is not enough to buy the love of a woman. As he begins falling for the charming yet defiant Camila (Rayssa Bratillieri), a Brazilian model unaccustomed to his lifestyle, Shawn must change his tactics and clean up his act if he intends to win her heart.
Also starring Dominika Kachlik, Han Hrzic, Celinde Schoenmaker, Julia Nickson...
- 4/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Executives appointed to oversee international push.
Barunson E&a, the South Korean production company behind Oscar-winner Parasite, is to expand into international co-production, financing and sales, beginning at the American Film Market next week.
The Seoul-based firm will divide its global operations into a sales division and a co-production and financing division, and is set to present an initial line-up of three features and a reality TV series at the AFM.
Korean and international operations will be overseen by Yoonhee Choi as managing director while Sylvie Eunyoung Kim will lead the global business as head of international division.
Formerly at Cj Enm,...
Barunson E&a, the South Korean production company behind Oscar-winner Parasite, is to expand into international co-production, financing and sales, beginning at the American Film Market next week.
The Seoul-based firm will divide its global operations into a sales division and a co-production and financing division, and is set to present an initial line-up of three features and a reality TV series at the AFM.
Korean and international operations will be overseen by Yoonhee Choi as managing director while Sylvie Eunyoung Kim will lead the global business as head of international division.
Formerly at Cj Enm,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Executives appointed to oversee international push.
Barunson E&a, the South Korean production company behind Oscar-winner Parasite, is to expand into international co-production, financing and sales, beginning at the American Film Market next week.
The Seoul-based firm will divide its global operations into a sales division and a co-production and financing division, and is set to present an initial line-up of three features and a reality TV series at the AFM.
Korean and international operations will be overseen by Yoonhee Choi as managing director while Sylvie Eunyoung Kim will lead the global business as head of international division.
Formerly at Cj Enm,...
Barunson E&a, the South Korean production company behind Oscar-winner Parasite, is to expand into international co-production, financing and sales, beginning at the American Film Market next week.
The Seoul-based firm will divide its global operations into a sales division and a co-production and financing division, and is set to present an initial line-up of three features and a reality TV series at the AFM.
Korean and international operations will be overseen by Yoonhee Choi as managing director while Sylvie Eunyoung Kim will lead the global business as head of international division.
Formerly at Cj Enm,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Barunson E&a, the production company behind Oscar-winner Parasite, is set to officially launch its new international ventures at the upcoming American Film Market as it looks to expand into co-production, financing and sales.
The company’s global operations will be divided into a sales division and a co-production & financing division. The inaugural lineup includes three films and a reality TV project that features a quintet of K-pop idols (see below).
Yoonhee Choi will oversee all Korean and international operations as Managing Director, and Sylvie Eunyoung Kim will manage the global business as Head of International Division.
Formerly at Cj Enm, Choi led the overseas distribution of numerous Korean and global productions including Parasite, The Handmaiden and The Spy Gone North, as well as producing 2021’s Seo Bok, Hard Hit and Nothing Serious.
Formerly at K-Movie Entertainment, Kim spearheaded overseas distribution of such titles as The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil,...
The company’s global operations will be divided into a sales division and a co-production & financing division. The inaugural lineup includes three films and a reality TV project that features a quintet of K-pop idols (see below).
Yoonhee Choi will oversee all Korean and international operations as Managing Director, and Sylvie Eunyoung Kim will manage the global business as Head of International Division.
Formerly at Cj Enm, Choi led the overseas distribution of numerous Korean and global productions including Parasite, The Handmaiden and The Spy Gone North, as well as producing 2021’s Seo Bok, Hard Hit and Nothing Serious.
Formerly at K-Movie Entertainment, Kim spearheaded overseas distribution of such titles as The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Sales roster includes Amp House, Bone Cold, The Brink Of, Burden.
Giulia Prenna is attending Mipcom with the sales arm of her Mind The Gap Productions to kick off talks on a slate of five features led by Keoni Waxman’s rom-com The Modelizer.
The Los Angeles-based producer of 2021 SXSW drama The Fallout with Shailene Woodley launched the sales division during the pandemic and attended Cannes Marché with the new venture for the first time. She will bring the sales slate to the AFM at the start of November.
The Modelizer centres on a wealthy Hong Kong bachelor who only...
Giulia Prenna is attending Mipcom with the sales arm of her Mind The Gap Productions to kick off talks on a slate of five features led by Keoni Waxman’s rom-com The Modelizer.
The Los Angeles-based producer of 2021 SXSW drama The Fallout with Shailene Woodley launched the sales division during the pandemic and attended Cannes Marché with the new venture for the first time. She will bring the sales slate to the AFM at the start of November.
The Modelizer centres on a wealthy Hong Kong bachelor who only...
- 10/17/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Asian streaming firm Viu is approaching profitability by staying its lane and sticking with the business principles that have made it a regional success story – Asian content, AVOD and SVOD models under one roof, and resistance to over-expansion.
“The industry for streaming has matured very rapidly [in part due to Covid],” said CEO Janice Lee, speaking Wednesday at the Apos convention in Singapore. “But what makes Asia different is that Asia has not yet reached mature market status.”
After some six years in business Viu is now Ebitda positive. “We always been focused on monetization. Our AVOD-svod mix remains the sustainable model,” said Lee, who also confirmed the company has been able to raise subscription prices in selected markets. The launch of advertising-supported models is now a direction being embraced by the sector giants Netflix and Disney.
“We continue to see growth in all of our 16 markets and are not looking to grow elsewhere and spread ourselves thinner,...
“The industry for streaming has matured very rapidly [in part due to Covid],” said CEO Janice Lee, speaking Wednesday at the Apos convention in Singapore. “But what makes Asia different is that Asia has not yet reached mature market status.”
After some six years in business Viu is now Ebitda positive. “We always been focused on monetization. Our AVOD-svod mix remains the sustainable model,” said Lee, who also confirmed the company has been able to raise subscription prices in selected markets. The launch of advertising-supported models is now a direction being embraced by the sector giants Netflix and Disney.
“We continue to see growth in all of our 16 markets and are not looking to grow elsewhere and spread ourselves thinner,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
“Dark Asset,” a spy action thriller film, starring Byron Mann and Helena Mattsson, has completed its principal photography and will seek a release in 2022. The film was written and directed by Michael Winnick.
The film tells of a charming guy, portrayed by Mann who attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him. But who is to say that the tale is not true? Or that the unimpressed woman is not actually the hunter?
Mattsson plays the femme fatale, while Robert Patrick plays a mysterious military scientist.
A co-production between Lankis Entertainment, Cherokee Productions and Across The Board Entertainment, “Dark Asset” is produced by Shani Rigsbee, Narbeh Tatoussian, Lan Kay, Ned Kisner and Sargon Yoseph. Winnick, Mann, Patrick, Lan Kisner, Andy Lyon and Michael Walker are executive producing. It is being launched in time for...
The film tells of a charming guy, portrayed by Mann who attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him. But who is to say that the tale is not true? Or that the unimpressed woman is not actually the hunter?
Mattsson plays the femme fatale, while Robert Patrick plays a mysterious military scientist.
A co-production between Lankis Entertainment, Cherokee Productions and Across The Board Entertainment, “Dark Asset” is produced by Shani Rigsbee, Narbeh Tatoussian, Lan Kay, Ned Kisner and Sargon Yoseph. Winnick, Mann, Patrick, Lan Kisner, Andy Lyon and Michael Walker are executive producing. It is being launched in time for...
- 11/2/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Celinde Schoenmaker (Rocketman), Julia Nickson (Rambo First Blood Part II), Rayssa Bratillieri (Malhação Vidas Brasileiras) and Hana Hrzic (Métèque) have joined the cast of the romantic comedy Hong Kong Love Story. They join previous announced cast members Byron Mann (Wu Assassins), Dominika Kachlik (M jak milosc) Nichkhun, and Kenneth Tsang (Die Another Day). Production is set to begin in Hong Kong on December 18.
Based on real events, Hong Kong Love Story follows Mann and Nichkhun as scions of tycoon families as they stumble their way around Hong Kong to find love. Their friendship gets tested when a Polish model played by Kachlik comes into their lives.
On the stage in London’s West End, Schoenmaker played Fantine in Les Misérables as well as Christine in Phantom Of The Opera. She played Elton John’s ex-wife in Rocketman and appeared in the Red Light series which was nominated for best foreign...
Based on real events, Hong Kong Love Story follows Mann and Nichkhun as scions of tycoon families as they stumble their way around Hong Kong to find love. Their friendship gets tested when a Polish model played by Kachlik comes into their lives.
On the stage in London’s West End, Schoenmaker played Fantine in Les Misérables as well as Christine in Phantom Of The Opera. She played Elton John’s ex-wife in Rocketman and appeared in the Red Light series which was nominated for best foreign...
- 12/16/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Wu Assassins and Little Fires Everywhere actor Byron Mann is set to star alongside award-winning Polish actress Dominika Kachlik, K-pop star and actor Nichkhun and legendary Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang are set to star in Hong Kong Love Story.
Filmmaker Keoni Waxman will direct the romantic comedy based on a spec written by Mann. This marks a reunion between the pair who previously worked together on The Ravine.
Based on real events, Hong Kong Love Story follows Mann and Nichkhun as scions of tycoon families as they stumble their way around Hong Kong to find love. Their friendship gets tested when a Polish model played by Kachlik comes into their lives.
In addition to Little Fires Everywhere and Wu Assassins, Mann’s TV credits also include The Expanse, Arrow and Altered Carbon. On the feature side, he has appeared in Skyscraper and The Big Short. He recently wrapped...
Filmmaker Keoni Waxman will direct the romantic comedy based on a spec written by Mann. This marks a reunion between the pair who previously worked together on The Ravine.
Based on real events, Hong Kong Love Story follows Mann and Nichkhun as scions of tycoon families as they stumble their way around Hong Kong to find love. Their friendship gets tested when a Polish model played by Kachlik comes into their lives.
In addition to Little Fires Everywhere and Wu Assassins, Mann’s TV credits also include The Expanse, Arrow and Altered Carbon. On the feature side, he has appeared in Skyscraper and The Big Short. He recently wrapped...
- 10/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Two K-pop superstars have officially been given an animated makeover! During a New York Comic Con panel on Sunday, Oct. 11, the stars and producers behind Disney's colorful cartoon series Big Hero 6: The Series announced they scored two musically-gifted guest stars for season three: Nichkhun Horvejkul and Jae Park, members of Irl boy bands 2Pm and DAY6, respectively. So what roles will they take on? They both play animated boy band members who just so happen to fight crime and battle fantastical villains as a side hustle. Specifically, Nichkhun will play twins Dae and Hyun-Ki, one half of the boy band 4 2 Sing, while Jae Park will play another set of twins, Kwang-Sun and Ye Joon, also 4 2 Sing...
- 10/11/2020
- E! Online
Other nominees include Korean dramas such as Kingdom Season 2, The World Of The Married and Crash Landing On You
Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) has announced nominees for the second Asia Contents Awards, with Taiwanese drama The Victims’ Game and Chinese Ott series The Bad Kids both garnering five nominations, including one each in the top best creative category.
Recognising outstanding Asian content from TV, Ott and other diverse platforms, the Asian Contents Awards received 75 submissions from 17 countries this year. The final selection has 28 works from 12 countries competing in seven categories.
Produced by Greener Grass Production and released on Netflix,...
Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) has announced nominees for the second Asia Contents Awards, with Taiwanese drama The Victims’ Game and Chinese Ott series The Bad Kids both garnering five nominations, including one each in the top best creative category.
Recognising outstanding Asian content from TV, Ott and other diverse platforms, the Asian Contents Awards received 75 submissions from 17 countries this year. The final selection has 28 works from 12 countries competing in seven categories.
Produced by Greener Grass Production and released on Netflix,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
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