EXCLUSIVE: Vietnam’s Skyline Media has closed a number of offers on its slate heading out of Busan’s Asian Contents and Movie Market (ACFM), together with gross sales of two titles to the U.S., highlighting the rising worldwide marketplace for Vietnamese films.
The Trophy Bride, a comedy drama a few poor household trying to pretend their means into excessive society, has been offered to 3388 Movies for the U.S., Canada and all EU European territories, in addition to to Infinity Leisure for Australia and New Zealand.
Scheduled for Vietnamese launch on October 18, the movie is directed by Vu Ngoc Dang and produced by Will Vu and Muse Movies, following their profitable collaboration on hit comedy drama Sister Sister 2.
Present horror hit The Sisters, produced by ProductionQ, has been offered to Purple Plan for launch in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, U.S. and Canada. The movie, which was beforehand offered to MovieCloud in Taiwan and Westec Media in Cambodia and Laos, was launched in Vietnam on September 20 and is at the moment the third highest-grossing Vietnamese horror movie of all time with $3.8M.
Directed by Tran Huu Tan (The Soul Reaper), The Sisters is a twisted retelling of Tam Cam, the Vietnamese model of Cinderella and the nation’s most controversial fairy story.
As well as, Spirit Whisper, the sequel to hit horror Crimson Snout produced by 89s Group, has been offered to MovieCloud in Taiwan, following earlier offers with Westec Media for Cambodia and Laos concluded in Filmart. Directed by Luu Thanh Luan, the movie is concerning the deceased son of a rich household who all of the sudden comes again to life when a black cat jumps over his physique. Vietnamese launch is scheduled for November 22.
Skyline Media expects to shut additional offers on these and different titles on its slate in coming months, throughout which period it is going to be attending markets together with the American Movie Market (AFM) in Las Vegas in early November.
Horror titles on the corporate’s slate additionally embody The Bride, a co-production between Thailand and Vietnam, directed by Lee Thongkham and produced by Cling Trinh, and The Soul Lantern a supernatural story impressed by a well-known Vietnam people story from debut director Hoang Nam.
Skyline can also be promoting Vietnam-US motion movie Domino, directed by Tino Nguyen, a few younger man who unravels his father’s felony previous and seeks vengeance within the underworld, and Tune Luan’s comedy drama As soon as Upon A Time In Indochine, based mostly on the true story of the Prince of Bac Lieu, famend because the boldest and richest playboy in Nineteen Eighties Southern Vietnam.
