Media Asia Entertainment Group (), Media Asia Group (, ), is a Hong Kong
production company
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and
film distributor
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The distributor may set the ...
for films made in Hong Kong and throughout China. It is a subsidiary of
Lai Sun Development Company Ltd.
History
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Media Asia is one of Asia's largest Chinese language film studios. Listed on the
Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited Dealing and Automated Quotation System in November 2004. The executive officer of the company is
John Chong, a co-founder of Media Asia. The chairman of the company is
Peter Lam, the younger son of
Lim Por-yen, who founded the Lai Sun Group.
Media Asia was also the only international entertainment company listed on the bourse. On 25 June 2007 the Singapore exchange approved the request to delist the company. 1 August 2007 following a compulsory buyout of minority interests in the company, it was successfully delisted.
[''Media Asia Entertainment Group'' (1 August 2007]
Announcement by Media Asia Entertainment Group
Singapore Exchange
Films
Media Asia has produced or co-financed over 50 Chinese language films. These include box-office successes such as ''
Initial D
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'', ''
Wait 'Til You're Older'', ''
A World Without Thieves
''A World Without Thieves'' () is a 2004 Chinese action drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You, Wang Baoqiang and Li Bingbing. The film is an adaptation of a 1999 novelette of the same title by Zhao Benfu. ...
,'' ''
Magic Kitchen'', and the ''
Infernal Affairs
''Infernal Affairs'' is a 2002 Hong Kong action thriller film co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Jointly written by Mak and Felix Chong, it stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. The film fo ...
''
trilogy
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.
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Media Asia has a library of over 269 Chinese language films that it distributes to more than 30 major international markets. It has built up a range of output agreements with Asia-leading television channels, including
Hong Kong Cable TV (Hong Kong),
CCTV-6
China Movie Channel (), the trade name of (), an agency at the Chinese Government's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. In mainland China, the agency provides programming to the China Central Television chan ...
(China),
Eastern Broadcasting (
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
),
MediaCorp TV
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...
(
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
) and
Celestial Movies
Celestial Movies (天映频道) is an Asian 24-hour Chinese movie channel, which screens films from and shows interviews with movie stars and directors, entertainment news and film award ceremonies. The channel is available in 11 territories acr ...
(Singapore/
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...
/
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...
/
Brunei
Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely surrounded by th ...
) and has formed a joint-venture with
China Film Group for film distribution in China. From 1997 until 2004, it held the pre-1997
Golden Harvest film library with Mega Star handling home video distribution. When Mega Star went into Fortune Star (under
Star TV), and with backing
20th Century Fox
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disn ...
, it took the rights to the Golden Harvest film catalogue with them.
Awards
Media Asia's films have won 183 awards and have been nominated more than 250 times at international film awards and at film festivals such as the
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the fest ...
,
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
, the
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, the
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the ...
, the
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards () is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is us ...
and the
Hong Kong Film Awards
The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA; ), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong. The ceremonies are typically in April. The awards recognise achievement in various aspects of filmmaking, such as directing, screenwriting, ac ...
.
References
External links
Media Asia– Official Website
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Film production companies of Hong Kong
Entertainment companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in Hong Kong
Hong Kong brands
Lai Sun Group
Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange