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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe pay-TV industry in the Asia-Pacific region saw advertising and subscription revenue shade downwards in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Schooled alum Tim Meadows has signed with CESD Talent Agency for representation.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Godzilla vs. Kong” made an appropriately monster start in mainland Chinese cinemas on Friday.

Play Diaries, the announcement came via a new mini-documentary from YouTube channel Cutscenes.In the video, Nakamura discusses her 16-year career in the games industry, from her first job working on Okami at Capcom before spending nine years at the Bethesda-owned Tango Gameworks where she was the creative director of Ghostwire: Tokyo.She also talks about her feelings of first presenting the game to the world back at Bethesda’s E3 conference in 2019, where viewers were instantly won over by her

EXCLUSIVE: MGM is in advanced negotiations for a multi-territory pre-buy of writer-director Zach Braff’s feature A Good Person, we can reveal.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“The Six,” a documentary film shining a searchlight on the little-known Chinese aspects of the familiar Titanic story is headed for theatrical release next month in the Middle Kingdom.

Dua Lipa, Madonna and Ed Sheeran, made available across Tencent’s platforms as well as connected devices such as in-car audio systems.In a statement, the two companies said the deal will “[leverage] Warner Music’s global resources and experience in supporting artists’ careers, as well as [Tencent’s] massive influence in mainland China’s music and entertainment market”.Warner and Tencent have worked together previously, signing a licensing deal for recorded music in 2014.

Rebecca Davis editorLongstanding Alibaba executive and pop culture icon Gao Xiaosong has left his role as director of Alibaba Music, according to company data publicly available via the Chinese company information site Tianyancha.He exited Tuesday, the same day that the Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese government has asked Alibaba Group to sell off or reel in its sprawling assortment of media assets.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA North American rights deal for mainland Chinese fantasy action film ‘God of War II, was one of several film sales deals struck by Hong Kong’s Media Asia at the recent European Film Market and the ongoing FilMart.Directed by Cai Cong, and starring Charles Lin, Liu Yuxi and David Wu, the film was completed in 2020.

Emmanuel Acho, host of this season’s “The Bachelor: After the Final Rose” special is revealing that what he feels was the most memorable moment never made it on the air because it needed to be cut for time.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIn remaking local versions of Thai and Chinese language content Bangkok- and Beijing-based Artop Media may have lucked onto one of the hottest trends of the moment in the Asian TV space.That’s because Thai content is increasingly successful on mainland Chinese streaming networks, and, as multiple speakers have noted in the first two day of FilMart, Thai content is increasingly working across East and Southeast Asia too.At FilMart this week Artop is pitching

Non-Fungible Tokens, better known by the acronym NFT, are becoming a hot new trend in technology. Just recently, an NFT by artist Beeple sold for more than $69 million, and tokens have been created for the television show American Gods, the band Kings of Leon’s new album, and the National Basketball Assn.

EXCLUSIVE: Euro producer and sales firm Anton is launching world sales on completed Eric Cantona movie Magic 7 from Heartbreaker, The Intouchables and The Death Of Stalin producer Nicolas Duval Adassovsky of Quad Productions.

Vivienne Chow Facebook Watch is to expand Paid Online Events into 24 markets, including Hong Kong, in the coming weeks following an exponential growth in viewership amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.Saurabh Doshi, Facebook’s head of entertainment partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region, announced the social media giant’s plans at Hong Kong FilMart on Monday.Paid Online Events allows users to limit access and content distribution to those who have registered to the event, positioning the

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese indie sales agency Blossoms Entertainment returns to FilMart with a slate of large-scale commercial pictures sourced from a clutch of China’s biggest film studios.The agency, operated by former IM Global staffers Vicky Ding and Leslie Chen, is pre-selling “Railway Heroes,” a tale of heroism and wartime sabotage which is targeting a National Day release in October.

Naman Ramachandran Priya Dogra, president of WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific (excluding China), has said the company is embracing a culture that fosters inclusivity.Dogra marked her first public appearance at the virtual Deloitte and Enders Media and Telecoms conference on Wednesday, telling delegates, “We’re embracing a culture that promotes courage and risk-taking and provides a platform to voices from all communities.

Imax sales slumped last quarter but beat Wall Street estimates and it swung to a loss. The stock popped in late trading as the company highlighted a strong box office in China and Japan, upbeat outlook and continued sales of its big-screen systems despite the pandemic.