Asia Media Alliance Group. Beta Film.
Asia Media Alliance Group (Production co: Monkey Man) and Nation Pictures (Indonesian Production company) release a slate targeting Southeast Asian audiences. The slate includes:
Pendekar: Warrior, a silat-driven action film starring Iko Uwais (The Raid franchise).
The Indonesian remake of the Korean action hit The Man from Nowhere (2010) starring Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat).
Extraction: Tygo, a spin-off from the Netflix action franchise starring Don Lee (Train to Busan) and Blackpink’s Lisa.
Beta Film GmbH, one of the leading producers of European film and TV, has made a deal with Enteractive (part of the Splendid Group). Enteractive will take over the technical distribution of Beta Film’s library, including popular series like Babylon Berlin (German TV series sold over 140 countries) and Gomorrah (Italian TV series sold over 190 countries).
Australian streamer Stan is putting a spotlight on OF creators in a new eight-part docuseries, Turned On: Dirty Sexy Money. Emma Lamb of Mischief Maker Productions (The Real Housewives of Sydney) will produce with the focus on the most successful women on the platform. The series premieres in May.
London-based sales agent CrossBorder Films launches its inaugural slate ahead of the Cannes Film Festival. Alongside a number of international titles, some highlights include the Australian relationship comedy Zombucha! and Mergen, a Kyrgyz thriller that follows a violent murder investigation in a remote gold-mining town.
Kangdrun’s Linka Linka (2025, trailer) wins two top accolades – Firebird Award and Fipresci prize for Young Cinema competition category at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival. The film follows a woman who returns to Tibet after years of drifting in Beijing to reconnect with her estranged father.
Mario Adorf, the German-Italian Spaghetti Western legend, dies at 95. He was one of the most prominent figures of the New German Cinema Movement in the 60s, with films like Oscar-nominated Thriller The Devil Stalks at Night (1957). He also starred in Volker Schlöndorff‘s The Tin Drum (1979), which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes.