Governments and agencies across Asia are taking steps to expand and extend the cross-border film coproduction movement.

A seminar called ‘From Eurasia to Global Collaboration’ on Thursday, the third day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, represented a handy recap of funding and structural developments from four countries: The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey.

Alex Sihar, from Indonesia’s directorate of culture, part of the ministry of education, described an ongoing process intended to put the industry on a more professional footing.

“While we have a long history of filmmaking and a very diverse culture, our films until recently have had very little international exposure, there has been little knowledge transfer and no incentives for location shooting or co-production.”

Film policy was previously stretched across multiple ministries, but is now to be overseen by a film department under the education ministry, which is newly separated from educational matters.

Co-productions are...

While we’re still waiting on a trailer, we just got our best look at Christian Bale’s villain Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder, thanks to an action figure.

“Newly-leaked images of the Love & Thunder Marvel Legends action figures have hit social media, giving us new looks at the Odinson in both ‘Ravager’ and his armored outfits, Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor, and Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher.”

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The director of Jurassic World: Dominion just compared the latest dinosaur villain to the Joker.

“In a new interview with Empire Magazine, director Colin Trevorrow discusses his upcoming film Jurassic Park: Dominion. The third and final chapter in the Jurassic World series is set to hit theaters in June, with returning stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard alongside Jurassic Park alumni Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. In the interview,...

Casper is headed back to the screen, with Deadline reporting that the friendly ghost is getting a live-action series for Peacock that’s said to put a “darker” spin on the family-friendly tale. Kai Yu Wu (The Ghost Bride) is writing and executive producing the new take. Deadline reports, “Casper the Friendly Ghost is coming back to […]

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A new live-action series about Casper the Friendly Ghost is in development at Peacock, Variety has learned.

The potential series hails from writer and executive producer Kai Yu Wu, with UCP and DreamWorks Animation set to co-produce.

The series is described as a horror/adventure show that reimagines the origin of Casper in a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be alive. When a new family arrives in the small town of Eternal Falls, Casper finds himself entangled in a mystery uncovering dark secrets that have been buried for over 100 years.

Wu has previously written for shows such as “Hannibal” at NBC as well as “The Flash” at CW and “Deception” at ABC. Most recently, she created the Netflix series “The Ghost Bride.”

She is repped by UTA and Underground.

The character of Casper was first introduced in a series of short animated films beginning in the 1940s...

Casper the Friendly Ghost is coming back to television in a brand new incarnation reminiscent of Riverdale‘s darker interpretation of the Archie comics. Peacock is developing Casper, a live-action, horror/adventure series, which reimagines the origin of Casper in a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be alive.

Set in high school, Casper is written/executive produced by The Ghost Bride head writer Kai Yu Wu. In it, when a new family arrives in the small town of Eternal Falls, Casper finds himself entangled in a mystery uncovering dark secrets that have been buried for over 100 years.

Casper is produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and DreamWorks Animation.

Casper originated as an affable translucent ghost featured in a slew of animated movies by Famous Studios released between 1945 and 1959. That’s when the character was acquired by Harvey Comics, which had published Casper comics since 1952. Since then,...

Exclusive: Freeform has picked up to pilot Aznbbgrl, an hourlong drama from Natalie Chaidez (The Flight Attendant), Dinh Thai (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), producer Melvin Mar (Fresh Off the Boat) and 20th Television.

Set in the vibrant Vietnamese community of Little Saigon in Southern California’s Orange County, Aznbbgrl is a coming-of-age story about three Asian American teenagers driven by a desire to break free from generational expectations and carve out their own place in the world. Together, these three very different women find escape and form a bond deeper than family when they become entangled with a street gang that offers them a way out.

The project is written by Chaidez and Thai, who executive produce along with Kai Yu Wu (The Ghost Bride) and The Detective Agency’s Mar and Jake Kasdan. 20th Television, where The Detective Agency is based, is the studio.

Chaidez recently wrapped work on...

Exclusive: Kai Yu Wu, The Flash and Hannibal writer, has teamed up with author and screenwriter Cherie Dimaline to adapt the latter’s horror novel Empire of Wild.

The pair are working with Fabel Entertainment, the company behind IMDb TV’s Bosch spin-off, on the series adaptation.

Dimaline’s novel, which was published in 2019, is grounded in indigenous folklore and follows Joan a year after her husband’s disappearance as she desperately tries to bring him back from the nefarious religious organization and supernatural forces that have claimed him.

Dimaline, who is indigenous, is best known for her YA novel The Marrow Thieves. She is currently writing on FX series Retreat.

Wu is a Taiwanese-American writer who recently created Netflix series The Ghost Bride and wrote on Amazon’s Paper Girls.

It marks Fabel Entertainment’s first move into the horror and fantasy genre. The company launched earlier this year by CEO Henrik Bastin,...

Milla Bell-Hart and Phil Tarl Denson in Impact 2.

Shaun Grant, Jason Smilovic, Kai Wu, Stuart Beattie and Sarah Heyward are mentoring 14 emerging creators in Impact Australia, the offshoot of Us Imagine Impact founded by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell.

Supported by Gentle Giant Media Group and Screen Australia, the inaugural eight-week accelerator program for creative storytellers from across Australia was originally slated to be held in Melbourne.

Due to Covid-19 it is now being held as a virtual program, with a twice-weekly speaker series. It will culminate in Pitch Day, hoped to take place in Melbourne in late 2020, with the ultimate goal of the creators selling their projects.

The 14 creators from across Australia are working on 10 projects:

Carrie Anderson (Nsw) – Bound (TV hour)

Luke Goodall (Vic) and Marc Gallagher (Vic) – Robots Inc. (TV half hour)

Sukhjit Khalsa (Wa) and Perun Bonser (Wa) – One of the Good Ones (TV...

Amazon has picked up a very different kind of young adult series that immerses you in a Ya novel — literally. The new comedy series titled Nancy Wu Done It comes from writers and executive producers Kai Yu Wu (co-executive producer of Amazon’s Paper Girls and Carnival Row) and Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist and Game of Thrones actress) and is described as a mashup of Pleasantville and Nancy Drew.

The story follows a frustrated Asian American female Ya author who suddenly finds herself transported into one of her own books. As a result, she must work with the titular character she created — who she now hates — to solve an unfinished mystery.

Nancy Wu Done It comes from Amazon Studios in association with Vertigo Entertainment. Roy Lee and Miri Yoon from Vertigo will serve as executive producers.

As inclusion is becoming more and more on top of mind in Hollywood, Nancy...

An influx of global and regional streamers looking to create content for Chinese-language audiences at a lower price point, and without the creative restrictions at play in censorious China, have led to a sort of renaissance for production in Taiwan.

The appetite of platforms, such as Netflix, HBO and Disney-Fox, for local content to attract local users has thrown a lifeline to the creative industries in the self-

governed island, whose content has faced increasing difficulties getting into China — the biggest, most obvious market for Mandarin-language productions — at a time when cross-strait ties are at a nadir.

“Right now, China is comparatively not free and difficult to enter — that’s Taiwan’s opportunity,” says Homme Tsai, chairman of Taiwan’s New Media Entertainment Assn. “The whole world struggles to get into China, but there are still millions of overseas Chinese in North America, Southeast Asia and elsewhere that still need Chinese-language content.

Netflix has set a release date for I Am Not Okay With This, a well-pedigreed supernatural/coming-of-age drama from, fittingly, two Stranger Things executive producers and The End of the F***ing World Ep/director Jonathan Entwistle.

Based on the Charles Forsman graphic novel and co-created for TV by Entwistle and Christy Hall, I Am Not Okay With This is described as an irreverent origin story that follows a teenage girl (played by Sophia Lillis of Sharp Objects and the It film franchise) who is navigating the trials and tribulations of high school, all while dealing with the complexities of her family,...

Netflix has confirmed that 56 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in January. Leading off the lineup are the final seasons of some of the biggest shows on Netflix, including the Emmy-winning animated series “BoJack Horseman,” the family favorite “Anne With an E” and the Ashton Kutcher comedy series “The Ranch.”

Among those shows launching their first seasons in the first month of the year are the Tyler Perry family drama “A Fall From Grace,” the sly satire “Medical Police” and the crime thriller “The Stranger.”

Also look for the sophomore edition of the British import “Sex Education,” season 3 of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and season 6 of “Grace & Frankie” with real-life pals Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in January 2020.

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