Malaysia’s Irregular Studios is formally coming into the worldwide gross sales enviornment at Hong Kong FilMart 2026.
The corporate beforehand attended the market below the Westec Media title.
The centerpiece of its debut gross sales slate is “Due to You Ka Kui,” a characteristic documentary on Wong Ka Kui, the inventive coronary heart of Past – broadly thought-about the defining Canto rock band in music historical past. Produced by Yip Sai Wing, certainly one of Past’s founding members, and Leslie Chan, the supervisor credited with discovering the group, the movie is helmed by Hong Kong director Rosa Pang.
Drawing on candid conversations with individuals who knew Wong personally and professionally, the movie presents an intimate human portrait fairly than a traditional movie star retrospective. It additionally options uncommon live performance recordings, beforehand unseen archival materials from his early life, and work he by no means launched publicly.
The broader slate features a curated physique of Indonesian library titles throughout a number of genres, put along with platform and broadcast consumers in thoughts. The horror choice spans Rocky Soraya’s “Mata Batin” franchise and three movies within the “Doll” sequence – “The Doll” (2016), “The Doll 2” (2017), and “Sabrina” (2018) – produced by Hitmaker Studios and Soraya Intercine Movies. The Indonesian lineup additionally takes within the critically acknowledged dramas “5 cm” (2012) and “Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck” (2013); romance titles “Eiffel… I’m in Love” (2003), its 2018 sequel, and “Sunshine Turns into You” (2015); and three comedies fronted by Raditya Dika – “Single” (2015), “The Guys” (2017), and “Goal” (2018).
Among the many new Southeast Asian options, Malaysian director James Lee brings “Subsequent Cease, Someplace,” a drama about loneliness and the expertise of residing away from one’s homeland, with veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong in a lead function. A second Malaysian title, “KL Love Story,” is an ensemble city drama from director Teng Bee set inside Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese language neighborhood, with a solid together with Haoren, Ms Puiyi, Thomas Kok, Jacqueline Tiang, Tong Bing Yu, and Steve Yap.
From Vietnam, Trấn Thành directs “Bunny!!,” a romantic characteristic advised via three interlocking love tales, whereas Đinh Tuấn Vũ presents “The Hermit Crab,” a horror movie through which a widower begins to suspect his spouse’s demise was not what it appeared.
Irregular Studios additionally arrives at FilMart with a various Cambodian lineup. Jimmy Henderson, who directed “Jailbreak” (2017), is in manufacturing on “What the Darkness Retains,” an motion horror through which a vacationing couple discover themselves hunted to feed a mysterious creature. Different Cambodian titles embody “Wedding ceremony Costume,” which relocates a Korean supply story to Phnom Penh to discover love, resilience, and loss; “The Ghost of Banana Tree,” a recent retelling of an area ghost legend; “Far Away Near You,” a portrait of younger love and paths not taken from director Mony Kann Darung; “Silent Murders,” a criminal offense thriller set in Cambodia’s prison underworld from filmmaker Amit Dubey; and “Her Lethal Eyes,” a revenge horror tailored from a well-liked Cambodian e-novel.
The corporate can also be bringing a number of tasks to market looking for pre-sales, co-production, and financing companions. These embody “An Angel Lurks on the Streets of Kyoto,” helmed by Chen Gongming, which follows a Japanese housewife whose life is upended after a lottery win, and “Thaiwan Boyz,” an eight-episode cross-cultural LGBTQ motion drama set on the earth of Muay Thai. Two Taiwanese vertical drama sequence spherical out the event slate: “The Sister Who Carried Evil,” a supernatural horror sequence, and “Summer season Serendipity,” a romantic drama.
A subsidiary of Westec Media Restricted, Irregular Studios has dealt with greater than 400 titles since 2020 throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Nepal, releasing roughly 100 movies a 12 months. Its distribution credit embody “Methods to Make Tens of millions Earlier than Grandma Dies” and “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.”
