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C NTENT Page 7 L 5-18 April 2021 Star Media Winds Down Dimsum Malaysian Streaming Platform Exits by 30 September New Jobs C NTENT Page 7 www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com 5-18 April 2021 Star Media winds down Dimsum Malaysian streaming platform exits by 30 September Malaysia’s Star Media Group is pull- ing the plug on five-year-old regional direct-to-consumer streaming service, Dimsum Entertainment. The group said the Dimsum team would be “rede- ployed within SMG to work on various ongoing and new projects already in the pipeline”. It’s not yet clear what these projects are. The full story is on page 2 q Disney+ dominates Aus streaming The Falcon and The Winter Soldier soars Disney+ totally and absolutely domi- nated demand in Australia for the week of 24-30 March, taking top three spots on the digital originals list by a long way with one additional title – Star Wars: The Clone Wars – making it onto the list at number nine and giving the streaming newcomer 40% of the top 10 digital originals list, according to the latest data from Parrot Analytics. The full story is on page 15 contentasia C NTENTASIA 5-18 April 2021 Page 2. Star Media winds down Dimsum Malaysian streaming platform exits by 30 September 2021 Malaysia’s Star Media Group is pull- The move is the first major Thai drama. ing the plug on five-year-old regional public decision by Star Star Media launched Dim- direct-to-consumer streaming service, Media’s new group sum in November 2016. Dimsum Entertainment. chief executive, Alex The Dimsum decision The group said the Dimsum team Yeow, who has been comes as Malaysia’s would be “redeployed within SMG in the post since 1 streaming environment to work on various ongoing and new March, and since heats up, with the ex- projects already in the pipeline”. the arrival of new pected entry of two It’s not clear what these projects chairman, former new players – Disney+ are. politician Chor Chee and Astro’s Sooka – in Chief marketing officer, Lam Swee Heung, who assumed the next few months, Kim, was quoted in the group’s flag- the role on 15 March. and escalating competi- ship publication this afternoon saying The decision was reached tion from regional and global Lam Swee Kim that “while it was a difficult decision after a strategic review that streamers including Netflix, Viu, to end this chapter, we are excited to apparently identified more iQiyi and WeTV/Tencent. explore promising new ventures in the lucrative opportunities. Malaysia’s Media Prima is also be- near future”. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Dimsum has lieved to be revamping its tonton While speculation has been rife for distribution in Malaysia, Brunei and Sin- platform with new backend streaming months about Dimsum’s ability to gapore, and has over the years been tech licensed from iQiyi. compete, news of the shutdown be- a small but significant buyer of local Disney+ and Sooka have not an- gan spreading this morning. content rights, including Korea and nounced their launch dates. @all3media_int all3mediainternational.com C NTENTASIA 5-18 April 2021 Page 3. New Year’s Eve debut for Box office smash forGodzilla vs Kong iQiyi’s Hachiko WarnerMedia: Movie kickstarts Asia cinema attendance Chinese streaming platform iQiyi has set a New Year’s Eve premiere date for Godzilla vs. Kong is smashing Covid-era the Chinese version of classic Japanese box office across India, Southeast Asia screenplay, Hachiko Monogatari, by and Korea, WarnerMedia says, touting Kaneto Shindo. the new monster-verse movie as kick- Hachiko is a co-production with Lajin starting cinema attendance in Asia. Entertainment Network Group. Warner Bros premiered the film across The film tells the story of the dog Ba- Asia on 24 March, ahead of the Easter tong, who waits in the same place for holidays. his owner, played by Feng Xiaogang, to In China, where the film opened on return 10 years after his death. 26 March (distributed by Legendary Godzilla vs. Kong, Warner Bros. Pictures This is Feng’s first screen performance Pictures), it took US$70.3 million from since he played a Beijing street punkHachiko in 42,000 screens, with a 82% share of the India opening weekend box office Mr Six in 2015. box office. was US$4.9 million, followed by Thailand Joan Chen (Sheep Without a Shep- WarnerMedia says the film was the at US$3.3 million. In Thailand, the film herd) stars as a candid and fiery mah- biggest Imax opening of the Monster captured 90% share. jong-loving landlady. Universe in 13 international territories, in- Korea box office was US$2.8 million Already in production, Hachiko is di- cluding India, Taiwan and Thailand. for the weekend, followed by Vietnam rected by Xu Ang (12 Citizens) and su- Opening weekend regional revenues with US$2.5 million, Malaysiad (US$2.1 pervised by Yeh Jufeng (Red Cliff). were US$25.2 million (ex China). Taiwan million), Hong Kong (US$1.7 million) and Hachiko will be distributed by Hengye box office was US$5.3 million and the Singapore (IS$1.6 million). Box office in Pictures and premiere across China. film captured 93% market share. Indonesia was US$850,000. C NTENTASIA 5-18 April 2021 Page 4. Malaysia’s broadband Veteran animator backs minority inclusion speed trails SG, TH on eve Nelson Recinos launches GoFundMe page for new series of streaming turbocharge As Malaysia prepares for ramped up streaming competition in the wake of new arrivals Disney+ and Sooka, speedtest specialist Ookla put the country in third place for fixed broad- band download speeds behind Singa- pore and Thailand and in fourth place behind Vietnam for upload speeds. The Philippines is fifth for both uploads and download speeds and Indonesia is last. Malaysia was fourth for mobile download speed. At the same time, Ookla notes an improvement in Malaysia’s mobile speeds between between the first and second halves of last year. This is linked to initiatives from the government’s National Digital Network Plan. Ookla says that in the second half of Veteran animator Nelson Reci- among others. 2020, Singapore had the fastest mean nos has started a Go Fund “Our characters will learn download speed over mobile broad- Me page to create con- and be inspired by these band networks in major markets in tent that will promote extraordinary masters,” Southeast Asia at 68.86 Mbps. minority inclusion in an- Recinos says. Thailand was second (40.54 Mbps) imated film and televi- Recinos says he will and Vietnam third (33.14 Mbps). Ma- sion programming. distribution the series laysia ranked fourth with a download Recinos, who direct- for free in inner-city speed of 24.53 Mbps, followed by the ed the Emmy Award schools “so kids can Philippines (17.41 Mbps) and Indonesia winning Pinky and the learn in a fun way (16.69 Mbps). Brain, is hoping to raise about famous people, More than 83% of time spent on mo- US$50,000 for a multi-eth- culture, and history of dif- bile networks in Malaysia in the second nic pre-school educational ferent regions around the Nelson Recinos half of 2020 was on 4G. 3G followed at project that teaches world”. 12.1%. children about famous Recinos has worked on But, the report says, “despite the people, culture, and history of different shows such as Batman, Animaniacs, strong time spent on 4G, there are still regions around the world. Baby Looney Tunes, Catdog, Oswald major gaps in 4G coverage in Malay- The series, The Magic of Discovery, the Octopus and Super Hero Squad for, sia”. 5.2% of devices in Malaysia were follows four characters – Carl, Rosie, among others, Warner Brothers, Para- 5G-capable at the end of 2020. Antoine and Lin – to various cities and mount Pictures, Nickelodeon and 20th countries, including India, China, Ja- Century Fox. pan and South Korea in different ages Recinos, a long-time advocate of di- q where they meet the seven-year-old versity in animation, founded animation versions of famous people such as Bill production house InMotion Films, based GMA offers free Covid-19 Games, Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, in California, in 2018. vaccines to staffers The Philippines’ leading free-TV broad- caster, GMA Network, is offering free contentasia Covid-19 vaccines to full- and part-time staffers and talent as part of a voluntary programme. Infinite Entertainment Stand out in the Age of Infinite Entertainment With more content, more channels and more platforms than ever, you’re still competing for the same thing: people’s attention. Transform your customer experience by delivering secure, high-quality entertainment on any network and any screen and get the attention you deserve. We’re Synamedia. We help companies like yours do just that. Find out more at synamedia.com 5-18 April 2021 page 5. C NTENTASIA 5-18 April 2021 Page 6. Philippines’ Cignal DTH #StopAsianHate: AXN All-Stars returns picks up TechStorm, AXN Asia original re-release with new dedications Wakuwaku Japan Singapore-based regional tech/es- ports network TechStorm debuts on Philippines’ direct-to-home satellite platform, Cignal, today (5 April), along with SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation’s Wakuwaku Japan general entertain- men channel. The deal gives both channels addi- tional potential reach in another three million homes across the country. TechStorm is already available on Cignal’s streaming platform, Cignal KC Global Media has re-released AXN George Chien. Asia’s talent special, AXN All Stars, dedi- The updated programme is running on cating the original 2020 production to AXN’s YouTube channel. the #stopsasianhate movement. Chien says the English-language Asian The 90-minute digital streaming fea- special has been made available for ture, initially released at the end of 2020 streaming worldwide “to help bring as one of KC Global Media’s pandemic greater awareness to the escalating, “celebration of hope” specials, features racially motivated, pandemic-fueled at- David Foster, Michael Bolton, Mel C and tacks being directed at the Asian-Ameri- Anggun, among others, across nine can/Pacific Islander (AAPI) community”.
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