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EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians-backer Peter Luo’s Stars Collective has signed Google engineer-turned-viral-YouTuber Jonathan Ma aka Joma to a managing, development and production deal, and he has set first project: a dark comedy/drama about the birth of Bitcoin and the true identity of mysterious founder Satoshi.

EXCLUSIVE: USA Today bestselling author Shawn M. Warner‘s Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor has been optioned by Stars Collective, which will explore film and TV adaptations of the bestselling YA novel.

EXCLUSIVE: Horror movie The Monkey, the adaptation of the Stephen King short story, wrapped shoot a week ago and we can reveal that lead cast joining Theo James (The White Lotus) includes Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: Attorney at Law), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of The Rings), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (The Hardy Boys) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek).

EXCLUSIVE: Film projects with genre supremos James Wan, Sam Raimi and Roy Lee attached as producers are set to be turned into video games by ambitious new Sino-American fund Stars-Hana, which we revealed in October.

Ever wonder where Garfield the cat came from? How he met his “owner” Jon Arbuckle? How pizza entered the picture? A new trailer for Columbia Pictures and Alcon Entertainment’s The Garfield Movie can help.

EXCLUSIVE: Stars Collective, a Los Angeles-based film finance and mentorship arm, has announced the launch of Stars Asian International Film Festival – a new capsule film showcase to take place in Los Angeles November 12-16. 

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Luo’s LA-based finance and training vehicle The Stars Collective is teaming up with Chinese financier Hana Investments on an ambitious “cross media fund to invest in comics, films, games, collectibles, consumer goods, artificial intelligence and metaverse technology.”

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off starring in season two of HBO’s The White Lotus, Theo James has been set to lead new horror movie The Monkey, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and Peter Luo’s Stars Collective (Crazy Rich Asians, Midway, Marshall, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) have partnered on the new Imagination Award that grants $25,000 each to three metaverse-based projects that show innovation “in a rapidly evolving mediascape.”

Sony has dated Tom Hanks “A Man Called Otto” to be released on Christmas Day, and Sandra Oh’s “Umma” to be released on March 18, the company announced on Friday.Meanwhile, the Jack Black Ice Cube comedy “Oh Hell No” has been pulled from the release schedule.“A Man Called Otto,” is a comedy starring Hanks that’s an English-language remake based on the Swedish book and film “A Man Called Ove.”Marc Forster is attached to direct the film, and David Magee is writing the script based on Fredrik Backman’s book. Ove has been renamed Otto for the Americanized film version of the story.Hanks plays the title character Otto, who is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, and who gives everyone in his neighborhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life, an unlikely and reluctant friendship develops with his new neighbors.

EXCLUSIVE: Hongyu “Neo” Li has been tapped as a Development Executive & In-House Writer​ for Starlight Media, the production and finance company behind titles including Crazy Rich Asians, Maligant and Wuhan Wuhan.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentHollywood-based Chinese film financier Peter Luo and Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti (“Shakespeare in Love”) have boarded upcoming female-led Syrian war drama “Nezouh,” directed by Soudade Kaadan, whose debut “The Day I Lost My Shadow” won the 2018 Venice Film Festival’s Lion of the Future.“Nezouh,” which is Kaadan’s followup to “Shadow,” is set against the backdrop of the Syrian conflict in Damascus where a young woman named Zena and her family

EXCLUSIVE: Details are emerging about Justin Chon’s (Blue Bayou) under-the-radar music drama Jamojaya, starring rapper Rich Brian. Recently wrapped in Hawaii, the film’s producing team includes Peter Luo (Crazy Rich Asians) and former Columbia/TriStar head Chris Lee.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHollywood financier Starlight Cultural Entertainment and its talent development offshoot Stars Collective have established a partnership with the Beijing Film Academy.It will focus on the incubation, development, packaging, financing, production and distribution of content for a global audience.

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Taylor is swapping 1970s New Jersey for 1980s California for his next project.

Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media, came to industry attention in Hollywood at a somewhat awkward moment for an ambitious Chinese film financier. Starlight began making waves in the business in mid-2017, when a slew of development and co-financing deals it had done with prominent Hollywood directors came to light.

EXCLUSIVE:  Peter Luo’s Stars Collective has acquired the rights to the Thomas Mendolia directed horror short “Mr. Thisforthat” and will develop and produce a feature adaptation that Mendolia is attached to direct, and Michael Karr, who wrote the short, will write.

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Crazy Rich Asians and Marshall backer Starlight is to extend its diversity funding program Stars Collective.

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca F. Kuang’s series of fantasy novels including The Poppy War, are set to be adapted for television after Peter Luo’s Starlight Media optioned the rights.

David Steward II’s Lion Forge Animation, based in St. Louis, is one of the only Black-owned animation studios in the U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Sam Raimi is producing a new supernatural horror feature, one which British Independent Film Award winning filmmaker Rob Savage will direct. The feature, written by Micah Ranum, is set in one location.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments.Yen will also produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is lead financing alongside SA Inc.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterA feature documentary is in the works, Wuhan! Wuhan!, which promises to offer a uniquely comprehensive insight into the Chinese city that was the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media which has backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, is putting together the U.S.-China co-production with Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti (Hidden Figures, Shakespeare in Love), superstar actor Donnie Yen, alongside Peter Luo and Huan Li (Road

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMartial arts superstar Donnie Yen is set as executive producer of cinema-verite style documentary “Wuhan! Wuhan,” which chronicles a day-and-a-half in the life of the Chinese city where the earliest proven cases of COVID-19 were found.The film is produced by Donna Gigliotti (“Hidden Figures,” “Silver Linings Playbook”) alongside Peter Luo of financier Starlight Media, and Huan Li (“Road of Millennium Bodhi,” “Changing China”).It is co-directed by renowned Chinese