Skyline Media, a Vietnam-based worldwide gross sales agent, is heading to the Cannes Film Market with a five-title slate led by “The Scourge,” one of many first characteristic movie diversifications of a Vietnamese online game IP.
The supply sport has topped China’s Steam Early Entry chart, collected over 60,000 downloads, earned a 94% constructive score on the platform and drawn tens of millions of views on YouTube. The horror characteristic attracts on a Vietnamese city legend a couple of cursed Saigon residence block from the Nineties, following an estranged younger man who returns residence to find his mom is possessed. He should work alongside his sister to unravel a malevolent power tied to forbidden rituals, buried household secrets and techniques and the spirit world. The challenge is produced by Charlie Nguyen and Jimmy Pham Nghiem of Chanh Phuong Movies, whose credit embody “The Rebel” and “Clash.”
A second horror title, “The 10th House,” comes from ProductionQ, the Vietnamese interval horror studio behind “Vietnamese Horror Story,” “The Soul Reaper” and “The Sisters.” The movie is helmed by Tran Huu Tan and Hoang Quan, who share directing and producing duties, and facilities on a younger man who begins documenting unusual occasions in his residence after his father’s mysterious dying. He exposes a forbidden ritual rooted in Vietnamese people magic that hyperlinks the constructing to a series of violent supernatural occurrences.
A market screening is scheduled for “Chrysalis,” a U.S.-Vietnam co-production. Primarily based on the memoir of Sir Daniel Ok. Winn — described as the primary Vietnamese-born artist to obtain a knighthood — the movie is about in Nineteen Seventies Saigon and follows a Vietnamese-American artist who confronts childhood trauma by way of reminiscence and his relationship together with his grandmother. The forged consists of veteran actress Kieu Chinh, recognized for “The Joy Luck Club,” alongside Nguyen Vu Uy Nhan, Samuel An, Le Anh Huy, Tien Pham of “The Sympathizer” and Winn himself.
Additionally within the lineup is “Blue Season,” a six-episode U.Ok. crime thriller directed by Zen Nguyen. Its inventive crew consists of cinematographer Mari Yamamura, BAFTA-winning composer Adam Lewis and Christopher C.F. Chow, with a forged that includes Catherine Nguyen Dauphin, Earl Wan, Ray Calleja and Kate Cook dinner.
The slate’s animated entry is “Scotty,” a characteristic assembled by a crew of greater than 300 artists working throughout six years. The English-language movie follows a cat dwelling on the streets and the inconceivable accomplice it finds on a journey residence. Its voice forged consists of Penelope Rawlins, William Hope, Stuart Milligan, Dario Coates and Jessica Preddy.
“As the first Vietnamese feature film inspired by an original local game IP, ‘The Scourge’ is a major step forward not only for Vietnamese cinematic storytelling, but for the country’s broader content ecosystem,” stated Hold Trinh, CEO of Skyline Media. “At the same time, our wider slate at Cannes this year reflects Skyline Media’s expansion into cross-border collaborations and multi-format storytelling, spanning feature films, series, animation and internationally driven productions that showcase how locally rooted stories and international creative partnerships can evolve together onto the global stage.”
Skyline Media acts as distributor for greater than 800 international movies and as gross sales agent for greater than 150 Vietnamese and Southeast Asian titles, with attain throughout greater than 50 international locations and territories by way of greater than 130 partnerships.
