Third Tradition Content material has unveiled Night Market Studios, a Singapore-anchored style label, with “The Conjuring” writers Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes becoming a member of as govt producers as the corporate brings a four-film debut slate to the Cannes Film Market.
Wholly owned by Third Tradition Content material, the manufacturing firm co-founded by Janice Chua and Sean Dulake, Night time Market will consider elevated horror, thriller and action-comedy drawing on Asian settings and mythologies, with franchise scalability and remake potential as central business goals.
The debut slate consists of “The Damned,” directed by Oscar-nominated Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji (“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”) and govt produced by Hayes and Hayes. Written by Michael Tay and Karl Gan, the horror pic follows a determined expectant father who agrees to function a human vessel in a forbidden Taoist ritual, solely to unleash a power from the underworld that drives him to reunite together with his estranged mom — a Taoist medium — to confront a rogue priest earlier than the curse consumes them each.
Indonesia’s Angga Dwimas Sasongko (“Stealing Raden Saleh,” “Jumbo”) is connected to helm “Coverband Heist,” a Jakarta-set action-comedy following 5 musicians who try a heist throughout an unique lodge occasion. Sasongko’s studio Visinema Footage comes aboard as producing associate.
Director Marie Jamora (“What Isn’t There”) is ready to direct “Imprint” from a script by Charlene Sawit-Esguerra, with Tan Si En of Momo Movie Co. and Anderson Le of East Movies as producing companions. Actor Liza Soberano, set to seem in DreamWorks’ upcoming “Forgotten Island,” is connected as govt producer. The supernatural thriller follows a Filipino-American girl who returns to the Philippines after her father’s homicide and discovers a psychic skill she should use to trace a serial killer transferring between the bodily and spirit worlds.
Rounding out the slate is “The Curse of Bali,” a romantic horror-comedy with BH Leisure as producing associate and a director but to be introduced. The movie tracks three {couples} celebrating an engagement who antagonize an actual Balinese superstition mentioned to doom relationships, setting off a series of fractures, suspicion and more and more weird encounters.
Chua and Dulake mentioned: “We’ve always believed that some of the most cinematic and emotionally charged genre stories in the world are coming out of Asia. Right now, audiences are increasingly seeking stories that feel distinct, surprising and authentic. Night Market is our way of bringing together acclaimed genre story tellers Chad and Carey Hayes, bold regional voices and commercially ambitious storytelling under one banner.”
Chad and Carey Hayes’ writing and producing credit embrace “The Conjuring,” “The Conjuring 2,” “The Reaping,” “The Crucifixion,” “The Turning” and a remake of “House of Wax.”
“We’ve long believed that genre transcends language and borders, when it’s grounded in authentic culture, mythology and human emotion. What drew us to Night Market Studios was its commitment to filmmaker-driven stories that feel both deeply rooted and globally cinematic. There’s an exciting wave of bold genre storytelling emerging from Asia right now, and we’re thrilled to collaborate with Janice, Sean and these filmmakers to help bring these stories to international audiences,” Chad and Carey Hayes mentioned.
Third Tradition Content material operates throughout Los Angeles, Singapore and Seoul. Chua beforehand served as VP of the worldwide division at Think about Leisure and was a producer on “Crazy Rich Asians,” with earlier posts at Ivanhoe Footage and Beijing Galloping Horse, the place she oversaw worldwide co-productions together with John Woo’s “The Crossing.” Dulake produced and starred in “Dramaworld,” the English-Korean language fantasy romantic comedy that premiered on Netflix worldwide and received finest overseas drama of the 12 months on the Seoul Worldwide Drama Awards.
