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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Australian federal government said Tuesday that it will introduce legislation this year that bans children from accessing social media. The exact age has yet to be determined. The plan, announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, aligns with moves by other governments around the Asia-Pacific region seeking to rein in online media and social media in particular. Many in the region are concerned that social media platforms are causing addictive behavior, enabling bullying, gambling and facilitating cybercrimes.

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Ho Wi Ding Shooting ‘Mothernet,’ AI Cautionary Tale From Indonesia, Singapore

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Production is under way on “Mothernet,” a drama film that examines the growing relationship between humans and technology. Ho Wi Ding, whose “Pinoy Sunday” and “Cities of Last Things” won multiple prizes, is in the director’s chair. Set in Indonesia’s near future, “Mothernet” is a poignant family drama centered around 16-year-old Rama who is trying to navigate life after a tragic accident leaves his mother in a coma.

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Al Pacino, Dan Stevens Exorcism Horror ‘The Ritual’ Sells Globally, Including to Leonine and Altitude (EXCLUSIVE)

Alex Ritman “The Ritual,” the upcoming exorcism horror in which Al Pacino and Dan Stevens play troubled priests, has sold out for most international territories by XYZ Films. From director David Midell, the film was written by Midell and Enrico Natale, and produced by Andrew Stevens, Mitchell Welch and Natale.

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‘Crocodile Tears’ Snaps Up Toronto Premiere: Indonesian Filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon’s Family Drama Bares Its Teeth, Trailer Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran A trailer has been unveiled for “Crocodile Tears” ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The film, Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon’s feature debut, follows Johan, who lives alone with his mother on a crocodile farm. Mother and son live in voluntary exile with only a white crocodile as their confidant.

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‘Stranger Eyes’ Director Yeo Siew Hua On How Surveillance Impacted His Mystery Thriller — Venice

After becoming the first Singaporean filmmaker to win Locarno’s Golden Leopard for A Land Imagined, Yeo Siew Hua will break new ground again with mystery thriller Stranger Eyes, which is the first Singapore film to premiere in-competition at the Venice Film Festival.

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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: Ostensibly A Missing-Child Thriller, Yeo Siew Hua’s Alluring Film Takes A Strange Turn — Venice Film Festival

Full of false leads and meandering shifts of focus, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua’s story of a missing child initially appears to be a straight-up thriller. Here is a young couple with their child Little Bo, being filmed in the park by Bo’s overbearing grandmother. Here they are at home, miserable shells of their former selves, watching all the home movies they can find in the hope of finding a hint of what might have happened to Little Bo, who has now been missing for three months.

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Playtime Sells Yeo Siew Hua’s Venice Competition Title ‘Stranger Eyes’ Across Key European Markets Ahead of World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Stranger Eyes,” Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua‘s feature on modern surveillance culture, has been sold by Playtime to a raft of territories ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which is in contention for the Golden Lion at Venice, revolves around a young couple who is grappling with the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter when they start receiving strange videos, realizing that someone has been filming their daily life.

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Yeo Siew Hua’s ‘Stranger Eyes’ Set as Golden Horse Festival Opening Film – Global Bulletin

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Stranger Eyes,” Yeo Siew Hua’s powerful film about surveillance and the surveilled, has been selected as the opening title for the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan. The film, which is structured as a co-production between Singapore and Taiwan, stars Taiwan film icon Lee Kang-sheng alongside Wu Chien-ho, Vera Chen and Anicca Panna. In ‘Stranger Eyes,’ a young couple begins to receive strange videos after the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter and realize that someone has been filming their daily life — even their most intimate moments.

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Thailand’s Sivaroj Kongsakul Drops Trailer for San Sebastian and Busan-Bound ‘Regretfully at Dawn’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Thai auteur, Sivaroj Kongsakul made his feature directorial debut with “Eternity,” which screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong back in 2010. Having waited for over a decade, Kongsakul has chosen to entwine the fates of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier in his second feature, “Regretfully at Dawn.” The new film is confirmed to premiere in the New Directors section at the San Sebastian festival and will follow that shortly after with an appearance xx in Busan International Film Festival in October. The film is very different from “Eternity” and from Kongsakul’s recent TV work. In a small province not far from Bangkok, the life of Yong Junjam (portrayed by Surachai Juntimatorn, who is better-known as a veteran Thai rock musician) at first seems typical of an old man.

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Busan Film Festival Sets Park Chan-wook Scripted Netflix Title ‘Uprising’ as Opener, Expands Program Despite Slashed Funding

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Busan International Film Festival will expand its screening program by some 8% in what it calls “an effort to maintain a scale befitting Asia’s top film festival.” This is despite a 50% cut in government financial support. The festival will open on Oct. 2 with “Uprising,” a star-studded period drama from Netflix that was scripted and produced by Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy”) and directed by Kim Sang-man.

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Busan To Open With Park Chan-wook’s Netflix Title ‘Uprising’, Close With Eric Khoo’s ‘Spirit World’; Kiyoshi Kurosawa Named Asian Filmmaker Of The Year

Korea’s Busan International Film Festival has unveiled the full program of its 29th edition, which will open with the world premiere of Uprising, produced and co-written by Park Chan-wook, and close with Spirit World, starring Catherine Deneuve and directed by Singapore’s Eric Khoo.

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Surveillance Culture Examined in Venice Contender ‘Stranger Eyes’: ‘We Are Starting to Live Our Lives as Images for Others’

Naman Ramachandran Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua turns the lens on modern surveillance culture in his latest feature, ”Stranger Eyes,” which is vying for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The film, which follows a couple grappling with their baby’s disappearance and the discovery of invasive surveillance footage, probes the psychological toll of constant observation in an increasingly interconnected world.

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Venice Title ‘Don’t Cry, Butterly’ Sells To CJ CGV Vietnam

EXCLUSIVE: Venice Critics’ Week title Don’t Cry Butterfly has been boarded by CJ CGV Vietnam for distribution in Vietnam.

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Philippines’ QCinema Unveils 20 Projects for Second Project Market

Naman Ramachandran The Philippines‘ Quezon City Film Commission and QCinema have revealed the lineup for the second edition of the QCinema Project Market (QPM). Twenty projects were selected from 63 submissions across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. The market aims to connect filmmakers with international partners and offers approximately $300,000 in grants and prizes.

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‘Trois Amies’ Review: Emmanuel Mouret’s Romantic Comedy Is A Relentlessly Middlebrow Exploration Of Love And Life In Lyon – Venice Film Festival

“Where do things truly start?” wonders the narrator of Emmanuel Mouret’s relentlessly middlebrow romantic comedy Trois Amies, a story of three women and their relationships that never feels like it’s ever going to end. Though it lasts just under two hours, it feels as bright and breezy as a flight from Newark to Singapore, spinning a complicated web of emotional intrigue that, finally, seems to go on and on just for the sake of it.

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Asia Content Investment Slows to Single-Figure Growth, Says Report: ‘Many Traditional TV Drama Producers Are Struggling to Compete’

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Investment in content for the theatrical film, TV and streaming markets of India and East Asia amounted to $15.5 billion in 2023, a new report shows. But spending slowed to a growth rate of just 4%, a significant slowdown compared with the investment peak in 2021-22, driven by COVID. Media Partners Asia‘s (MPA) 2024 Asia Video Content Dynamics, report which covers India, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, describes the slowdown as “a normalization of budgets and a rationalization of local content investment in streaming VOD.” India was the strongest-growing market, with a robust 12% growth, driven primarily by sports content, while Indonesia followed with a 5% increase.

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Venice Competitor ‘Stranger Eyes’ Director Yeo Siew Hua Developing Limited Series as Part of Producer Akanga Film Asia’s Growing Slate (EXCLUSIVE)

Christopher Vourlias Fran Borgia of Singapore’s Akanga Film Asia (“Tiger Stripes”), who’s at the Venice Film Festival this week with Yeo Siew Hua’s Golden Lion contender “Stranger Eyes,” has unveiled two new projects on his production company’s fast-growing slate, including a limited series from Yeo, whose “A Land Imagined” won the Locarno Film Festival’s top prize in 2018. “We are excited to announce that we are expanding our horizons beyond Southeast Asia, embarking on ambitious new projects in collaboration with partners from China, Japan and India,” Borgia told Variety.

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‘Happyend’ Trailer: Surveillance And Disaster Tests High School Friendships In Neo Sora’s Film — Venice

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Neo Sora‘s debut fiction feature Happyend has been unveiled, ahead of its world premiere in the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti competition.

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Busan Competition Film ‘MA – Cry of Silence’ Picked up by Alpha Violet

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “MA – Cry of Silence,” a topical drama film from Myanmar, which will debut in the Busan festival’s New Currents main competition, has been picked up by Franco-Japanese sales firm Alpha Violet. With Myanmar’s civil war now in its third year, the film tracks Mi-Thet, a young Burmese woman employed in a garment factory in Yangon. For the past two months, wages have not been paid and a group of female workers, led by the young Nyein-Nyein, get organized to claim.

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Romance Novelist Ana Huang Signs With IAG For Film and TV Representation (EXCLUSIVE)

Katcy Stephan New York Times bestselling romance novelist Ana Huang has signed with Independent Artists Group for film and television representation. Huang has published 12 books across three series, most notably the steamy “Twisted” books, which have been a fixture of the NYT bestseller list for 60 weeks and counting.

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‘It Ends With Us’ Continues To Blossom As Romantic Drama Crosses $200M Global Box Office

Sony/Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends with Us continues to blossom as it crosses the $200M global box office mark. With Wednesday’s numbers included, the Blake Lively-starring and -produced adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s popular novel counts $204.4M worldwide, of which $106.7M is from domestic and $97.7M from the international box office.

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