TOHO Entertainment Asia expands control over anime merchandising; co-licensing deal signed with MUSE...
TOHO Global's one-year-old Singapore-based subsidiary, TOHO Entertainment Asia (TEA), has sealed an Asia-wide (ex Japan, Korea) co-merchandise licensing partnership with MUSE for anime series "Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End" season 2. The...
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"Culinary Class Wars" returns for a third season; Netflix upsizes format, four-person teams compete
Netflix has confirmed a third season of cooking competition series “Culinary Class Wars”, introducing a format shift from individual chefs to a team-based showdown. Applications for entries open tomorrow. Season 3 reunites the original...
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“Papa Zola The Movie” hits RM60m/US$14.8m; domestic blockbuster rolls out in India, Vietnam,...
Asian animation house Monsta’s “Papa Zola The Movie” has hit RM60 million/US$14.8 million at the box office in Malaysia and Brunei. The latest figures put the film ahead of “Ejen Ali The Movie 2”, and cement animation as a key driver of the...
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If it didn’t already have 1001+ suitors lining up for production funding, Singapore ended 2025 with another S$200 million/approx US$155 million in government backing, locking in its status as the…
Two issues dominate conversations about mainland China’s entertainment industry as 2025 draws to a close – the vertical microdrama boom, with revenues overtaking movie/box-office, and Japan replacing…
Malaysia’s Media Prima Television Networks closed its latest financial year with strong, broad-based performance across free-TV networks TV3 and 8TV, film distribution (led by "Ejen Ali The Movie 2"…
When U.S. microdrama platform ReelShort announced its multi-year global partnership with Hong Kong-based AR Asia Productions this month, a new chapter in the short-form arms race across the Asia-…