Shanghai-based Linmon Pictures is preparing to go where few major Chinese TV studios venture — overseas.
On the second day of Hong Kong’s Filmart entertainment convention, the premium TV producer unveiled an ambitious plans for a slate of local-language TV projects targeting the Korean, Thai, Indonesian and Taiwanese markets. The company says it will produce at least 10 non-Chinese TV series for the Asia-Pacific region in the next two to three years.
The domestic Chinese TV audience is so enormous that few local private studios have bothered pursuing neighboring countries’ far smaller entertainment markets in any meaningful and consistent way. Linmon’s CEO Yuan Zhou says he began contemplating getting more involved internationally after Linmon began receiving a growing number of offers for remake rights from production companies from around the region.
“We’ve had a lot of demand from international platforms and distributors for our Chinese-language series,” Zhou says. “But...
On the second day of Hong Kong’s Filmart entertainment convention, the premium TV producer unveiled an ambitious plans for a slate of local-language TV projects targeting the Korean, Thai, Indonesian and Taiwanese markets. The company says it will produce at least 10 non-Chinese TV series for the Asia-Pacific region in the next two to three years.
The domestic Chinese TV audience is so enormous that few local private studios have bothered pursuing neighboring countries’ far smaller entertainment markets in any meaningful and consistent way. Linmon’s CEO Yuan Zhou says he began contemplating getting more involved internationally after Linmon began receiving a growing number of offers for remake rights from production companies from around the region.
“We’ve had a lot of demand from international platforms and distributors for our Chinese-language series,” Zhou says. “But...
- 3/14/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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