It’s a mid-summer Monday and we’re looking at… one new job, one missing set of earnings, one unkillable Korean zombie comedy, two shiny new bundles, and one retro hijack drama on Netflix’s horizon.

Our daily brief begins with... 

👉 Long-time Netflix exec Tony Zameczkowski has joined Disney as SVP & GM, direct-to-consumer, Asia Pacific, with dual reporting to APAC president Luke Kang, and Joe Earley, president, direct-to-consumer, Disney Entertainment. Zameczkowski worked at Netflix for just over nine years, and was most recently APAC VP and regional co-head & head of partnerships. He exited Netflix in June this year.

👉Thai-listed Miss Universe Organisation owner, JKN Group, continued its earnings-MIA, failing to submit financial reports for the first six months of 2025 by the 14 August deadline. The company says it is still busy correcting its financial statements for 2023, and will submit the missing filings in date order as soon as it is finished. Thailand’s SET has, as a result, extended the trading suspension that has been in place since August 2024. The SET’s new advisory is the latest in JKN’s long-running battle to snatch its business from ruin. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) extended filing deadline for rectified 2023 financials is 9 September this year – countdown: 22 days. In Feb this year, JKN was given until 18 November 2026 to bring all of its filings up to date or kiss its listing goodbye.

 👉“My Daughter is a Zombie” continues its box office reign in Korea, ending this weekend at #1 with a weekly gross of just under US$5.4 million and total admissions now at 4.52 million since its 30 July release. This brings the Korean comedy’s total box office to over US$4.5 million, and bolsters optimism that Korean movie theatres may not be on a fast track to Armageddon after all. “My Daughter is a Zombie” beat “F1” (US$3 million weekly gross) this weekend, as well as Korean fantasy feature “Pretty Crazy”, which came third with US$1.3 million. According to a Korean Film Council report for the first half of this year, box office revenue dropped 33% year-on-year to KRW408 billion/US$294 million with attendance down 32.5%.

👉 Two subscription bundles top our list as the week opens… In Malaysia, Telekom Malaysia’s Unifi Mobile has launched the country’s first postpaid plan including a Netflix subscription. The plan offers unlimited 5G and 4G data from RM79/US$17 a month with no lock-in contracts. T.M.’s chief business & consumer officer, Anand Vijayan, said the plan was “part of TM’s aspiration to become a Digital Powerhouse by 2030”. In India, the ultimate bundler – streaming aggregator OTTplay – is collaborating with Amazon Prime to offer Prime Lite to its customers. The plan is available either through partner ISPs (including NetPlus and KCCL) as well as a ₹799/US$9.59 a year top up for existing premium subs. Shilangi Mukherji, director & head of SVOD Business, Prime Video, India, said the collaboration “not only further simplifies access to Prime Video’s high-quality content selection but also delivers additional shopping and shipping benefits”. OTTplay says it has more than 1,000 ISP partners.

👉 Netflix has set 17 Oct for the release for Byun Sung-hyun’s ”Good News”. The Korean film is set in the 1970s, where an unexpected alliance forms to land a hijacked plane against all odds. Sul Kyung-gu plays the shadowy fixer known only as Nobody, who brings in elite Air Force lieutenant Seo Go-myung (played by Hong Kyung).