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EXCLUSIVE: Hongyu “Neo” Li has been tapped as a Development Executive & In-House Writer​ for Starlight Media, the production and finance company behind titles including Crazy Rich Asians, Maligant and Wuhan Wuhan. In his new role, he will be responsible for generating ideas, treatments, pitches, and scripts, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Taylor is swapping 1970s New Jersey for 1980s California for his next project. The director, whose The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark is set for a September release, is to helm a TV adaptation of fantasy novel Stone Junction. Taylor knows the fantasy world well, having directed numerous…

EXCLUSIVE: In-demand Thai filmmaker Nattawut ‘Baz’ Poonpiriya, known for Asian box office smash Bad Genius and Sundance 2021 winner One For The Road, is to direct English-language horror-thriller The Innkeeper for Crazy Rich Asians and Midway backer Starlight. Set against the backdrop of the Southeast Asian financial…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca F. Kuang's series of fantasy novels including The Poppy War, are set to be adapted for television after Peter Luo's Starlight Media optioned the rights. Starlight Media, which has backed films including Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, has taken the rights to The Poppy War, Dragon Republic and The Burni…

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments. Yen also will produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is…

A feature documentary is in the works, Wuhan! Wuhan!, which promises to offer a uniquely comprehensive insight into the Chinese city that was the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media which has backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, is putting together the U.S.-China co-production with…

China’s Starlight Media, which has previously backed Hollywood directors including Sylvester Stallone, Robert Zemeckis and James Wan, has formed a multi-year, multi-project joint venture with David Steward II's Lion Forge Animation. The two companies say they will co-finance and co-produce a slate of original animated…

EXCLUSIVE: Starlight Media has picked up the Lucas Paulino and Ángel Torres directed horror short Bedtime Story. Paulino and Torres are also attached to direct the feature version, which will be produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House, under their production deal with Starlight. Craig Flores will also…