Netflix’s nation-on-nation battle in Physical: Asia is heating up, with half the season’s episodes now released. Future U.S. and Italian spinoffs are also on the horizon. Physical Asia has already soared to the third spot on the platform’s Top 10 Global Non-English series list, with two new…

Disney+ has partnered Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ ENM to bring their originals on the Tving platform to the Japanese market. From November 5 onwards, Disney+ Japan will offer up to 60 Tving titles and CJ ENM series, including Guardian: The Lonely and Great God and Reply 1988…

Billed as Netflix Japan’s tentpole title for the year, Last Samurai Standing is set in 1878 Japan, and assembles 292 fallen samurais for a survival game, where the last competitor standing gets to claim a 100 billion yen (nearly $656M) prize. Japan’s Junichi Okada, formerly of boyband V6, stars…

EXCLUSIVE: Indian star Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s journey to the leading role in indie filmmaker Aditya Kripalani’s latest film, I’m Not An Actor, started with a comment from the director on one of Siddiqui’s Instagram posts. Kripalani and Siddiqui laugh, as they regale the unusual tale. Siddiqui…

UPDATED, 2:24 PM: The man convicted or murdering model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola was sentenced today to life in prison. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter imposed the maximum sentence David Pearce, 43, which actually was 146 years…

While Japan has bolstered its production incentives ecosystem, infrastructure remains a key challenge in the country, Shogun producer Eriko Miyagawa highlighted at an MPA seminar at the Tokyo International Film Festival today.  "We were always going to shoot in Vancouver because of the space we…

EXCLUSIVE: Fala Chen’s entertainment career has soared and flourished through several different acts. Her next act? Making her directorial debut this December, with a project titled Inheritance. She first rose through the ranks as an actress at Hong Kong’s broadcaster TVB for eight years, before…

Chinese and UK film and television leaders gathered in the London’s BAFTA building on Thursday for the Shanghai-London Screen Industry Forum, to share their insights on co-producing and distribution opportunities, with micro-dramas, children’s and sports content emerging as frontrunners for…

Veteran Korean actors Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-il and Lee Min-ho will star in thriller Assassins, directed by Hur Jin-ho (A Normal Family). Set in 1974, the film follows the attempted assassination of Korean president Park Chung-hee on August 15 that year — one of the most consequential days in the…

CreAsia Studio and Thailand’s TrueVisions Now have unveiled a Thai adaptation of crime drama My Chef in Crime. The production is supported by the Department of Cultural Promotion, Ministry of Culture of Thailand and THACCA, and is slated to begin in February 2026. The Thai adaptation draws…

EXCLUSIVE: Starring Korean-American chef Edward Lee as well as veteran actor Ryu Soo-young, Ed And Ryu: Mad About Seafood is a culinary travel documentary co-produced by BBC Studios Asia and Studio JanChi — with a K-pop star also set to make an appearance in the show. London-based executive…

The Final Girl trope defined characteristics of the last character left alive to confront the killer in horror films, particularly in slasher films. The rise of feminism in the 1970s became a milestone in the genre as the damsel in distress did not need a man to rescue her anymore. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns)…