EXCLUSIVE: Vietnam’s Mockingbird Photos is launching worldwide gross sales on a slate of Indonesian and Vietnamese horror movies at this 12 months’s Hong Kong Filmart (March 17-20), tapping into the rising horror development in each of those increasing markets.
From Indonesia, the corporate has picked up worldwide gross sales rights to Sukma, directed by actor and filmmaker Baim Wong, whose final movie as director, horror pic Lembayung, grossed greater than $4m in Indonesia final 12 months. Christine Hakim, Luna Maya and Oka Antara head the solid of his new movie, a few household haunted by an historic mirror once they transfer to a small city. Launch is scheduled for the third quarter of this 12 months.
Mockingbird has additionally picked up two accomplished titles – Paul Agusta’s supernatural chiller The Butterfly Home, produced by Entelekey Media, and Charles Gozali’s The Damnation, produced by Magma Leisure.
Launched in Indonesia in February, The Butterfly Home tells the story of couple encountering supernatural forces in an ancestral residence as they put together for his or her wedding ceremony. The Damnation, which premiered ultimately 12 months’s Jogjakarta Netpac Asian Movie Pageant (JAFF), is the story of a pregnant girl combating off evil forces to save lots of her unborn baby. The solid contains Marthino Lio (Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Money) taking part in the husband who makes an attempt to save lots of her life.
One other current addition to Mockingbird’s slate is Gundik, the following film from Anggy Umbara, whose Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari was the second highest grossing movie in Indonesia final 12 months with 5.8 million admissions.
From Vietnam, Mockingbird is dealing with gross sales on a trio of images produced by its sister firm Bluebells Studio, together with the sequel to field workplace hit Betting With Ghost, which was the third highest grossing native movie in Vietnam final 12 months grossing greater than $5m.
The sequel, directed by Nguyen Nhat Trung and starring Hoai Linh and Tuan Tran, follows a gaggle of strangers tasked with trekking throughout the treacherous Mekong Delta to ship a celeb ghost’s corpse to obtain an enormous money prize. The movie is aiming for a September 2025 launch in Vietnam.
Additionally from Bluebells Studio are Le Thanh Son’s romantic comedy My Final Carnival and Do Quoc Trung’s horror movie Exorcist: The Blood Demon.
My Final Carnival stars Tuan Tran and Phuong Anh Dao, who final appeared collectively in Tran Thanh’s Mai, the highest-grossing native movie of all time in Vietnam. At the moment in pre-production, My Final Carnival follows a younger man making an attempt to keep away from taking over the place of chief priest at his village’s annual competition, who groups up with a music present producer plotting to earn a living from the occasion.
Starring Diep Bao Ngoc (Face Off 6: The Ticket of Future), Exorcist: The Blood Demon is predicated on an city legend that has haunted Northwest of Vietnam for hundreds of years. At the moment in pre-production, the movie is aiming for an early 2026 launch.
Mockingbird moved into worldwide gross sales final 12 months after turning into certainly one of Vietnam’s main distributors of overseas motion pictures, dealing with greater than 40 titles a 12 months. Final 12 months’s releases, which included hit Thai horror Demise Whisperer 2 (Tee Yod 2), grossed a mixed $30m.
