Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Leading Chinese film director Zhang Yimou has been announced as chief director of “MGM 2049,” pitched as “an unprecedented residency show” in Macau. Zhang, who is known for films inc…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:33AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Hankyu Hanshin, parent company of all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, has apologized to the family of an actor who died in September last year. The 25-year-old woman died af…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:26AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Jason Arrow will reprise the role of Alexander Hamilton as the hit stage musical “Hamilton” returns to Australia later this year. The production will play a limited engagement at the Syd…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06AMThursday, December 28, 2023
Mbongeni Ngema, a distinguished South African musician and creator of the musical “Sarafina!,” died on Wednesday in a car accident. He was 68. “Ngema was killed in a head-on car accide…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08AMSaturday, April 22, 2023
Australian satirist Barry Humphries, known for his onstage and TV drag persona Edna Everage and for his character Sir Les Patterson, has died. He was 89. The BBC reported that Humphries had …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:56AMFriday, January 7, 2022
Some thirty acts have announced the cancelation of their performances or attendance at the Sydney Festival, a major arts festival that started Thursday in Australia’s biggest city. They ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
The powerful appeal of K-pop is a major contributor to YouTube taking up position as the dominant streaming video platform in South Korea, a new study has found. Netflix, which has also inve…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:51AMMonday, June 28, 2021
Sydney, the capital of the Australian entertainment industry, has gone into a two-week lockdown after a surge of the highly-transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus. The city’s stay-…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:27AMFriday, June 18, 2021
From a standing start 19 months ago, Disney’s video streaming operations in Asia-Pacific have already amassed 36.9 million subscribers. Boosted by launches in more Asian territories this y…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:51AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Disney Plus made the greatest progress among premium streaming platforms in Southeast Asia in the first quarter of the year, according to new research. AMPD Research, affiliated with Media P…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AMMonday, May 17, 2021
Reporting results fully seven and a half months after the fact, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort said that it lost nearly $1 million per day last year. For the financial year to September 2020, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:35AMSaturday, May 1, 2021
The extension of an popular immersive exhibition that retraces the memories of one of Hong Kong’s most iconic cinema buildings, and the past glory of the local film and entertainment indus…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Disney is to close 18 TV channels in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong as the conglomerate puts a greater emphasis on direct-to-consumer streaming. The move will take effect from Oct. 1, 2021. Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PMFriday, April 23, 2021
Alternative content for cinema screening is getting a K-pop spin, giving it a chance of success in parts of Asia, even as distributors and audiences remain hesitant about movies’ return to…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PMMonday, February 22, 2021
Hong Kong’s film industry moved ahead on several fronts over the weekend after coronavirus-mandated lockdowns were reduced. But the return to business is likely to be uneven. Cinemas reope…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:17PMWednesday, February 17, 2021
The Hong Kong Disneyland theme park will reopen on Friday (Feb. 19, 2021) after being closed due to a fourth wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the city. All visitors will have to provide t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26AMFriday, February 5, 2021
Korean pop music is becoming available in ever more formats. The latest is a mobile game “Rhythm Hive” which launched Thursday and features BTS and other K-pop acts from the Big Hit Ente…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PMSaturday, January 23, 2021
Despite disruptions to the music industry caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Big Hit Entertainment, the management company behind K-pop superstars BTS, had a booming 2020. Last year saw BTS…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:19AMWednesday, December 30, 2020
Hong Kong is to provide cash subsidies to cinema operators as the city buckles under the pressure of a fourth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Cinemas were ordered to close in December, causin…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Wanda Cinema Line has placed an order for 100 RealD Ultimate Screens from visual tech specialist RealD. For RealD the deal, announced at the CineAsia convention in Hong Kong, is the largest …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
Breakout acting star Awkwafina was on hand Saturday in Honolulu to receive the Halekulani Maverick Award from the Hawaii International Film Festival. The actress, writer and rapper this year…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:56PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Though its opening film is high-profile Hollywood romance “A Star is Born,” the Tokyo International Film Festival is increasingly focusing its efforts on building bridges with Asia. Espe…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s “A Star Is Born” will open the 31st edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival. The film, which is Cooper’s directorial debut, had its premiere i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMLeading property developer China Resources has struck a deal to build 14 IMAX theaters in its new cinema chains. Theaters will be opened between over a period to 2021, with installations in …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Chinese video streaming giant, iQIYI has opened its first conventional movie theater in Zhongshan, southern China. The company aims to build a network of on-demand cinemas, at which viewers …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Bollywood superstar, Salman Khan was jailed on Thursday after being found guilty of poaching rare blackbuck antelopes. The case has been in and out of court for nearly 20 years. A court in J…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Disney will launch an Indian version of globally popular stage musical “Aladdin” at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts in April. Leading Indian entertainment ticketing po…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04AMThursday, February 22, 2018
Lee Yoon-taek, artistic director of Yeonheedan, one of South Korea’s top theater groups, has been accused of sexual violence, including rape. The case is the latest scandal as the #MeToo c…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18AMMonday, February 12, 2018
Disney cartoon series are to be widely available in China following a deal between Buena Vista International and Youku, the video streaming platform owned by Alibaba. China strictly limits t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:43AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Leading Australian stage and TV actor, Craig McLachlan has been accused of sexual harassment ranging from indecent assault to bullying. The “Doctor Blake Mysteries,” “Neighbours,” an…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:37AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Carol Choi has been appointed as GM of the Walt Disney Company’s Korea office. She is also named as head of marketing in North Asia, covering Greater China, Korea, and Japan. Based in Seou…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:17AM 
