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 including "…
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…
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 Sydney …
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 accident whi…
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 …
Japanese animation film "Suzume" made just shy of $50 million on its opening weekend in mainland Chinese theaters. Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway, shows "Suzume" grabbing the top spot…
Odeon Cinemas, part of the AMC theaters group, is looking for a new managing director U.K. & Ireland, following the resignation of Carol Welch after some six years at the company. Welch,…
Mooky Greidinger, the CEO of troubled multinational theatre operator Cineworld, has been given a six-month suspended jail term by a court in Israel. The company, which has 9,139 screens in 1…
The Astory-produced "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" claimed the 'Best Content Award' Saturday at the fourth edition of the Asian Contents Awards in Busan. The hit show's lead actress, Park Eun-…
Hong Kong's ongoing anti-COVID restrictions are forecast to cost the city's cinemas HK$1.5 billion ($192 million) in lost box office receipts and cause the unemployment of thousands of peopl…
Multinational cinema operator Cineworld says that it has reached an agreement with creditors over a disputed and delayed repayment. The agreement gives Cineworld three additional months to s…
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 argu…
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…
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-at…
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 yea…
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…
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…
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 industr…
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…
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 t…
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 reopene…
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…
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 Entertai…
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…
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…