Shah Rukh Khan in any room, anywhere in the world, gets attention. When you have Khan welcoming the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi with the biggest names in show business watching, the world sits up and takes notice.

"Her Story", a Chinese feminist drama movie, was named the top prize-winner at the Far East Film Festival in Italy’s Udine in the small hours of Saturday morning. An extended version of Hong Kong box-office record-breaker "The Last Dance" also collected multiple awards.

Whatever debt it still carries and however much pressure it remains under five years after losing its broadcast franchise, ABS-CBN continues to mount a magnificent defence of its corner of the Philippines video entertainment market. 

Oscar-nominated Japanese-British director Ema Ryan Yamazaki found her feet as a documentary feature filmmaker in the story of the couple who created kids’ character, "Curious George". 

While the import and export of physical goods may have been the early focus of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bilateral trade moves, the Asia-Pacific region’s film and TV industries may soon be shaken by the new “America First” policy.

Taiwan’s most significant video content and production issues in 2025 are (1) likely leadership changes at government agency TAICCA and the impact this will have on industry direction, and (2) how to balance the country’s creative impulses, which tend to art house, with commercial ambitions.