With a background in Taiwanese public television and now president of leading production company Greener Grass Culture, Phil Tang has been one of the key players in Taiwan’s evolving drama production space.
Founded by Hank Tseng in 2008, Greener Grass is both a film and TV producer, with film credits including horror movie The Tag-Along, and series including period drama Gold Leaf and crime dramas The Victims’ Game and Copycat Killer. The latter two shows were produced for Netflix and Greener Grass is currently working on the second season of The Victims’ Game, about a forensic scientist with Asperger’s syndrome.
Separately, Tang continues to lend his drama production expertise to other Taiwanese companies and was also a producer on Damou Entertainment’s ground-breaking show The World Between Us, which delved into a range of social issues and won several prizes at Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards.
Tang is now...
Founded by Hank Tseng in 2008, Greener Grass is both a film and TV producer, with film credits including horror movie The Tag-Along, and series including period drama Gold Leaf and crime dramas The Victims’ Game and Copycat Killer. The latter two shows were produced for Netflix and Greener Grass is currently working on the second season of The Victims’ Game, about a forensic scientist with Asperger’s syndrome.
Separately, Tang continues to lend his drama production expertise to other Taiwanese companies and was also a producer on Damou Entertainment’s ground-breaking show The World Between Us, which delved into a range of social issues and won several prizes at Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards.
Tang is now...
- 11/10/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, the project market that accompanies the Golden Horse film festival and awards in Taiwan in November, has laid out a huge 64-title selection for its 2023 edition.
These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.
The event, which runs Nov. 20-22, offers a $31,000 (Nt$1 million) first prize and a total prize pool of $250,000 (Nt$8 million) from sponsors and industry sources. All selected projects are also eligible to apply to two Taicca funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” teams up with Kimi Hsia...
These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.
The event, which runs Nov. 20-22, offers a $31,000 (Nt$1 million) first prize and a total prize pool of $250,000 (Nt$8 million) from sponsors and industry sources. All selected projects are also eligible to apply to two Taicca funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” teams up with Kimi Hsia...
- 9/25/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Magic Fair, a Miami-Paris based indie sales company and Hong Kong- and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment have launched rights sales on upcoming feature animation “Pigsy,” directed by Chiu Li-Wei (“Barkley”) during the Cannes Film Festival’s Marche du Film.
The film is a reimagining of the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West.” The story follows a self-absorbed and lazy pig on a journey to lasting happiness. Set in a distant future, the film sees Pigsy embark on a deceitful quest for a better life, only to find that true happiness may be closer than he thinks.
The production has recently added Taiwanese stars Greg Han, Liu Kuan-Ting, Harlem Yu, Tuo Tsung-Hua, Chung Hsin-Ling, Ivy Shao, Waa Wei and K.R. Bros. The film is to be completed in time for release at Chinese New Year in early 2024. Production is by the Netherland’s studio Submarine with Taiwan’s Greener Grass (“GrX”) and Studio2.
The film is a reimagining of the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West.” The story follows a self-absorbed and lazy pig on a journey to lasting happiness. Set in a distant future, the film sees Pigsy embark on a deceitful quest for a better life, only to find that true happiness may be closer than he thinks.
The production has recently added Taiwanese stars Greg Han, Liu Kuan-Ting, Harlem Yu, Tuo Tsung-Hua, Chung Hsin-Ling, Ivy Shao, Waa Wei and K.R. Bros. The film is to be completed in time for release at Chinese New Year in early 2024. Production is by the Netherland’s studio Submarine with Taiwan’s Greener Grass (“GrX”) and Studio2.
- 5/25/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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Netflix has scooped up the global streaming rights to Taiwanese horror blockbuster Incantation, which it will release worldwide on July 8. The film was released theatrically in Taiwan in March and has been described as the “scariest Taiwanese film ever.” So far, it has earned 5.7 million (TW170 million) in cinemas, making it the highest-grossing film at the Taiwan box office this year, as well as the top-earning original Taiwanese horror film of all time.
“I’m really proud that Incantation is going to be released on Netflix globally, maximizing the number of people who can watch it,” said Kevin Ko, writer-producer-director of Incantation. “It has always been my dream to make films that travel around the world and are watched by every horror fan on Earth, keeping them awake at night. I can’t wait to hear viewers’ reactions.”
“Incantation has resonated strongly with Taiwanese audiences,...
Netflix has scooped up the global streaming rights to Taiwanese horror blockbuster Incantation, which it will release worldwide on July 8. The film was released theatrically in Taiwan in March and has been described as the “scariest Taiwanese film ever.” So far, it has earned 5.7 million (TW170 million) in cinemas, making it the highest-grossing film at the Taiwan box office this year, as well as the top-earning original Taiwanese horror film of all time.
“I’m really proud that Incantation is going to be released on Netflix globally, maximizing the number of people who can watch it,” said Kevin Ko, writer-producer-director of Incantation. “It has always been my dream to make films that travel around the world and are watched by every horror fan on Earth, keeping them awake at night. I can’t wait to hear viewers’ reactions.”
“Incantation has resonated strongly with Taiwanese audiences,...
- 6/8/2022
- by Karen Chu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) is delighted to unveil Formosa Fantastica, a major highlight of its 20th edition (July 2–10), dedicated to Taiwanese imagination. This cross-disciplinary and ebullient cycle will include features and short films, immersive installations, as well as conferences – a diverse programme that reflects the heterogeneity of the Taiwanese production and its contemporary renewal. The audience will be able to discover a wealth of never seen before films through the work of a new generation of genre filmmakers, as well as large-scale local productions. In addition, a selection of immersive installations will be set up at the Neuchâtel Natural History Museum (Mhnn), and a series of roundtables will be live-streamed simultaneously from Neuchâtel and Taipei.
Supported by the Taiwan Cultural Center in Paris, Formosa Fantastica will give pride of place to Taiwan in a hybrid format: the films and the conferences will be available on the Nifff’s digital platform,...
Supported by the Taiwan Cultural Center in Paris, Formosa Fantastica will give pride of place to Taiwan in a hybrid format: the films and the conferences will be available on the Nifff’s digital platform,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Taiwan’s four top cinema exhibition chains have joined forces to launch new feature movie production company Bole Film. The company aims to bring between three and five new films per year to market.
Bole is backed by VieShow Cinemas, Showtime Cinemas, Ambassador Theatres, and Shin Kong Cinemas, with the support of Taiwanese Creative Content Agency (Taicca)’s National Development Fund. Singapore-based mm2 Entertainment is also part of the mix, aiming to fund film investments and tap international market opportunities.
Bole will operate by providing development funding of up to Nt$2million per project brought to it by independent producers, while also working on a business plan. Bole may then provide up to Nt$10million of production funding per film. Mm2 Entertainment is to provide 10% of Bole’s production investment.
Leading the new company’s slate is “In Justice,” an adaptation of a best-selling novel by Neil Wu. It is being produced by Activator Marketing,...
Bole is backed by VieShow Cinemas, Showtime Cinemas, Ambassador Theatres, and Shin Kong Cinemas, with the support of Taiwanese Creative Content Agency (Taicca)’s National Development Fund. Singapore-based mm2 Entertainment is also part of the mix, aiming to fund film investments and tap international market opportunities.
Bole will operate by providing development funding of up to Nt$2million per project brought to it by independent producers, while also working on a business plan. Bole may then provide up to Nt$10million of production funding per film. Mm2 Entertainment is to provide 10% of Bole’s production investment.
Leading the new company’s slate is “In Justice,” an adaptation of a best-selling novel by Neil Wu. It is being produced by Activator Marketing,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
After his screen debut, a horror-thriller “The Tag-Along”, the Taiwanese director Cheng Wei-hao is back with the elaborate mystery crime-thriller “Who Killed Cock Robin?” Though the international world-wide title given after an old English nursery rhyme feels inspired, the original Mandarin title “Mu ji zhe” directly translated as “The Eyewitness” would give a better clue to the viewers what the film is actually about – an accident from the past surfaced by its reportedly only witness who has to solve the puzzle from other unreliable testimonies.
Who Killed Cock Robin is screening at Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Taiwan Cinema Online
The protagonist Wang, played by sleazy-charming Kaiser Chuang, is a journalist not too dissimilar from Lou Bloom, the protagonist of Dan Gilroy’s “Nightcrawler”, using a police radio scanner to get to the scenes of crimes and accidents. After he finds a senator and a celebrity model involved in a car crash,...
Who Killed Cock Robin is screening at Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Taiwan Cinema Online
The protagonist Wang, played by sleazy-charming Kaiser Chuang, is a journalist not too dissimilar from Lou Bloom, the protagonist of Dan Gilroy’s “Nightcrawler”, using a police radio scanner to get to the scenes of crimes and accidents. After he finds a senator and a celebrity model involved in a car crash,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Non-profit pan-Asian film organization Sophia’s Choice has announced Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s second specially curated online program as a result of the Pandemic.
“In support of first line responders and social distancing, we feel that as an Asian film festival, it’s good to remind the public of alternative online content other than the mainstream choices,” states Sophia Wong Boccio, Founder & Executive Director of Asian Pop-Up Cinema.
Riding on the success of the first online program, Audience Choice Winners Rewind (May 10-31), Asian Pop-Up Cinema are bringing together a new line up for early June: Mini-Focus: Taiwan Cinema Online, focusing on contemporary Taiwanese cinema.
Three short films and five narrative features will be streamed for free during June 5 – 12. A wide array of different styles of story-telling will provide a “glimpse” into contemporary Taiwanese filmmakers’ recent endeavors.
Each movie will be made available for a one-time viewing between 2:00pm-10:00pm Cdt.
“In support of first line responders and social distancing, we feel that as an Asian film festival, it’s good to remind the public of alternative online content other than the mainstream choices,” states Sophia Wong Boccio, Founder & Executive Director of Asian Pop-Up Cinema.
Riding on the success of the first online program, Audience Choice Winners Rewind (May 10-31), Asian Pop-Up Cinema are bringing together a new line up for early June: Mini-Focus: Taiwan Cinema Online, focusing on contemporary Taiwanese cinema.
Three short films and five narrative features will be streamed for free during June 5 – 12. A wide array of different styles of story-telling will provide a “glimpse” into contemporary Taiwanese filmmakers’ recent endeavors.
Each movie will be made available for a one-time viewing between 2:00pm-10:00pm Cdt.
- 6/2/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Film Taiwan announces that the Taiwan Film Festival is coming to the UK for the very first time. The Festival celebrates Taiwan’s long and tempestuous history and diverse cultural heritage through the uncensored lens of independent Taiwanese filmmakers.
The Festival runs from 3 – 14 April, with a programme of films shown at various prestigious locations including the Curzon Soho, DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury, the Starr Cinema at Tate Modern and an exciting virtual reality (Vr) pop-up cinema at Asia House in central London, in partnership with Art Cinema.
The Tag-Along 2
Inaugurated in Iceland in March 2019, this will be a trailblazing festival covering a broad range of topical issues that are both particular to Taiwan and also speak to a global audience – including Lgbtq rights, ethnicity, land rights, environment and politics. As the only Mandarin-speaking country in the world who protects freedom of speech, Taiwan has a powerful voice to tell stories others cannot.
The Festival runs from 3 – 14 April, with a programme of films shown at various prestigious locations including the Curzon Soho, DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury, the Starr Cinema at Tate Modern and an exciting virtual reality (Vr) pop-up cinema at Asia House in central London, in partnership with Art Cinema.
The Tag-Along 2
Inaugurated in Iceland in March 2019, this will be a trailblazing festival covering a broad range of topical issues that are both particular to Taiwan and also speak to a global audience – including Lgbtq rights, ethnicity, land rights, environment and politics. As the only Mandarin-speaking country in the world who protects freedom of speech, Taiwan has a powerful voice to tell stories others cannot.
- 3/15/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
After winning Best Short Film at the Golden Horse Awards in 2015 and multiple other awards for his mockumentary “The Death of A Security Guard”, Cheng’s first feature film “The Tag-Along” – based on a popular ghost story in Taiwan – was nominated for Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and 4 categories of the 53rd Golden Horse Awards, and became a box office success, setting the record for top-grossing Taiwanese horror film.
Cheng’s second feature film “Who Killed Cock Robin?” was officially released on March 31st, 2017 in Taiwan and is now distributed by Cheng Cheng Films. Today, Cheng Wei-hao has established his reputation as a compelling story teller and a talented genre-film director.
We speak with him about his movie “Who Killed Cock Robin?”, the challenges in realising it, the masters that inspired him, the cast and other topics.
You are very young and your first movie “The Tag-Along” made a box...
Cheng’s second feature film “Who Killed Cock Robin?” was officially released on March 31st, 2017 in Taiwan and is now distributed by Cheng Cheng Films. Today, Cheng Wei-hao has established his reputation as a compelling story teller and a talented genre-film director.
We speak with him about his movie “Who Killed Cock Robin?”, the challenges in realising it, the masters that inspired him, the cast and other topics.
You are very young and your first movie “The Tag-Along” made a box...
- 3/12/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Who Killed Cock Robin, a psychological crime thriller directed by award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Cheng Wei-hao (The Tag-Along franchise) starring Taiwanese-American actor Mason Lee will hit VOD on January 31th and open in select theaters in North America during the next few months. Who Killed Cock Robin follows …
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- 2/17/2019
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Who Killed Cock Robin, a psychological crime thriller directed by award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Cheng Wei-hao (The Tag-Along franchise) starring Taiwanese-American actor Mason Lee will hit VOD on January 31th and open in select theaters in North America during the next few months.
Who Killed Cock Robin follows an ambitious journalist’s investigation into a hit-and-run he witnessed years ago. As he beats the clock to rescue the disappeared news source, layers of unimaginable dark truths about a corrupted system start peeling.
Known for The Tag-Along, a ghost folklore-inspired horror franchise that broke the genre’s box office record in Taiwan once held by Hollywood’s The Conjuring, director Cheng Wei-Hao is currently among the most sought-after Taiwanese talents. A passion project he had been working on for six years, Who Killed Cock Robin continues Taiwan New Cinema’s legacy of exploring human conditions and reinvigorates it with gripping suspense and dazzling gore.
Who Killed Cock Robin follows an ambitious journalist’s investigation into a hit-and-run he witnessed years ago. As he beats the clock to rescue the disappeared news source, layers of unimaginable dark truths about a corrupted system start peeling.
Known for The Tag-Along, a ghost folklore-inspired horror franchise that broke the genre’s box office record in Taiwan once held by Hollywood’s The Conjuring, director Cheng Wei-Hao is currently among the most sought-after Taiwanese talents. A passion project he had been working on for six years, Who Killed Cock Robin continues Taiwan New Cinema’s legacy of exploring human conditions and reinvigorates it with gripping suspense and dazzling gore.
- 1/22/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Malaysia-based distributor acquires third film in Taiwanese horror series for ten territories in Southeast Asia.
Malaysia’s Gsc Movies has acquired The Tag Along: Devil Fish, the third film in a successful Taiwanese horror franchise, for ten Southeast Asian territories.
Hong Kong-based Entertaining Power, which is handling international sales on the film, described this as the biggest single sales deal for the three films. The ten territories covered by the deal include Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos.
Taiwanese release is scheduled for November 23, followed by Malaysia on November 29 and Singapore on December 6. The...
Malaysia’s Gsc Movies has acquired The Tag Along: Devil Fish, the third film in a successful Taiwanese horror franchise, for ten Southeast Asian territories.
Hong Kong-based Entertaining Power, which is handling international sales on the film, described this as the biggest single sales deal for the three films. The ten territories covered by the deal include Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos.
Taiwanese release is scheduled for November 23, followed by Malaysia on November 29 and Singapore on December 6. The...
- 10/6/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The event received 243 submissions from 43 countries.
In South Korea, the 22nd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) has announced their selection for the 11th Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) project market - including works from Ong Bak producer Prachya Pinkaew and former Cannes and Venice director Woo Ming Jin (The Tiger Factory).
Naff organizers reported a total of 243 submissions from 43 countries this year, out of which they selected a final 26 projects from 19 countries, sorted into four sections – It Project, a Spotlight on India, Blood Window and Nordic Genre Invasion.
It Project has 17 titles including Woo’s Malaysian project Siri...
In South Korea, the 22nd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) has announced their selection for the 11th Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) project market - including works from Ong Bak producer Prachya Pinkaew and former Cannes and Venice director Woo Ming Jin (The Tiger Factory).
Naff organizers reported a total of 243 submissions from 43 countries this year, out of which they selected a final 26 projects from 19 countries, sorted into four sections – It Project, a Spotlight on India, Blood Window and Nordic Genre Invasion.
It Project has 17 titles including Woo’s Malaysian project Siri...
- 5/30/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Captain Fantasticto open festival in South Korea.
Asia’s largest genre cinema event, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) marks its 20th anniversary with the appointment of its first organizing committee chairman from the film industry – veteran director Chung Ji-young, and expanded festival and industry programmes.
Bifan will open July 21 with the Asian premiere of Captain Fantastic, the Viggo Mortensen-starrer that won Matt Ross the Un Certain Regard best director award at this year’s Cannes.
Running until July 31, the festival will hold its closing ceremony July 29 with the Asian premiere of King Of Pigs director Yeon Sang-ho’s animation Seoul Station. Currently playing at the Edinburgh film fest, the animated film is known as the prequel to Yeon’s first live action film Train To Busan, which was in Cannes’ Midnight Screenings last month.
The festival has a record 302 films from 49 countries, with 49 world premieres and 32 international premieres. These include...
Asia’s largest genre cinema event, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) marks its 20th anniversary with the appointment of its first organizing committee chairman from the film industry – veteran director Chung Ji-young, and expanded festival and industry programmes.
Bifan will open July 21 with the Asian premiere of Captain Fantastic, the Viggo Mortensen-starrer that won Matt Ross the Un Certain Regard best director award at this year’s Cannes.
Running until July 31, the festival will hold its closing ceremony July 29 with the Asian premiere of King Of Pigs director Yeon Sang-ho’s animation Seoul Station. Currently playing at the Edinburgh film fest, the animated film is known as the prequel to Yeon’s first live action film Train To Busan, which was in Cannes’ Midnight Screenings last month.
The festival has a record 302 films from 49 countries, with 49 world premieres and 32 international premieres. These include...
- 6/22/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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