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French sales Other Angle (“A Little Something Extra”) has boarded “PH-1,” a tech-driven political thriller starring Mark Kassen, Abubakar Salim, Dina Shihabi, Vinessa Shaw and Jesse L. Martin. An actor-filmmaker, Kassen directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Cheryl Guerriero. Kassen produced the movie alongside Iliana Nikolic under his production banner Like Minded […]

It’s 3 p.m. on Election Day, and New Yorker Hana Slevin is spending her afternoon at AMC Lincoln Square, where she can keep her phone out of sight and the fate of the free world out of mind. “I’m going to treat myself and not look at the news or social media,” says Slevin, 34, […]

As voters hit the polls on Election Day, celebrities are showing up to voting centers and posting selfies with “I voted” stickers en masse. Some are taking it one step further, like Anne Hathaway, for instance, who hopped on social media to encourage voters at colleges and universities — particularly in Pennsylvania – to stay […]

The Boys Love (‘BL’) genre is getting bigger. Big enough for producers to organize fan meets similar to those for Asia’s mainstream TV shows or pop music stars. In an event organized at Westar, Taipei, the Taiwan-based LGBTQI-streaming platform GagaOOLala hosted its first fan meet for its original BL musical series “First Note of Love” […]

Colombia Film Commissioner, Silvia Echeverri outlined Latin America’s evolving audiovisual landscape and her country’s growing production sector during a presentation at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), highlighting opportunities for Asian-Latin American collaboration. Latin America’s audiovisual market is experiencing significant growth, with Argentina, Brazil and Mexico leading the sector with combined revenues of approximately $20 […]

Southeast Asian folklore meets Taiwanese culture in “Pontianaks in Taiwan,” a mini-series that follows two undead supernatural beings on a road trip across Taiwan. The project, currently in development, is being presented at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). The series centers on two Pontianaks – bloodthirsty female vampires from Malay folklore – who leave […]