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  • Netflix gets competition as Hooq enters Singapore market

    Netflix gets competition as Hooq enters Singapore market

    MUMBAI: Team Netflix, please take note. Video streaming service Hooq is now available in Singapore. It launched in the Philippines early last year, and has since expanded to Thailand, India and Indonesia. In India, Hooq plans to invest $2 million on home-grown content.

    Hooq is a joint venture by Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

    The platform has a catalogue of over 20,000 movies and television shows, comprising both Hollywood and regional content. Apart from Hollywood content, Hooq has presently sourced Indian films and shows from studios like Rajshri Productions, Reliance Entertainment, Shemaroo Entertainment, Balaji Telefilms and Whacked Out Studios. With the cost of making original English language shows high, the platform is considering Hindi and other Indian language content.

    It gives users access to Hollywood, Filipino, Indonesian and Indian content but there are plans to add Korean, Malay and Chinese content within the next 90 days.

    In Singapore, a subscription costs from $8.98 a month, to $78.98 for 360 days ($6.58 a month). Discounts are available for longer subscriptions. Hooq has also partnered with Singtel to offer prepaid streaming data bundles starting at $7 for 1 GB of streaming. More bundles will be available for the customers in the next few months.

  • Netflix gets competition as Hooq enters Singapore market

    Netflix gets competition as Hooq enters Singapore market

    MUMBAI: Team Netflix, please take note. Video streaming service Hooq is now available in Singapore. It launched in the Philippines early last year, and has since expanded to Thailand, India and Indonesia. In India, Hooq plans to invest $2 million on home-grown content.

    Hooq is a joint venture by Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

    The platform has a catalogue of over 20,000 movies and television shows, comprising both Hollywood and regional content. Apart from Hollywood content, Hooq has presently sourced Indian films and shows from studios like Rajshri Productions, Reliance Entertainment, Shemaroo Entertainment, Balaji Telefilms and Whacked Out Studios. With the cost of making original English language shows high, the platform is considering Hindi and other Indian language content.

    It gives users access to Hollywood, Filipino, Indonesian and Indian content but there are plans to add Korean, Malay and Chinese content within the next 90 days.

    In Singapore, a subscription costs from $8.98 a month, to $78.98 for 360 days ($6.58 a month). Discounts are available for longer subscriptions. Hooq has also partnered with Singtel to offer prepaid streaming data bundles starting at $7 for 1 GB of streaming. More bundles will be available for the customers in the next few months.

  • Indonesian film wins NETPAC award at Rotterdam

    Indonesian film wins NETPAC award at Rotterdam

    NEW DELHI: Indonesian drama What They Don‘t Talk About When They Talk About Love has won the NETPAC prize for Asia pacific films at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.

    The award was instituted by the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema and is presented in just a handful of film festivals around the world for Asia Pacific films.

    The film, about the characters in a Jakarta school for the visually impaired, is the second feature by Mouly Surya who previously directed thriller Fiksi in 2008.

    The film had previously received financial support from Rotterdam‘s Hubert Bals Fund. It had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and its European premiere in Rotterdam.

  • Hollywood films set to return to Indonesia

    Hollywood films set to return to Indonesia

    MUMBAI: After a five-month drought caused by a standoff over the country‘s tax on imported films, Hollywood films are set to return to Indonesian screens, with the final Harry Potter.


    “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is being imported by a newly established local company and will be released before Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month that begins on 1 August,” said Djonny Sjafruddin, head of the Indonesian Cinema Companies Union.


    The debut of Harry Potter and the other movies is made possible by the recent establishment of a new film importer, PT Omega Film, Sjarifuddin revealed. He however declined to give an exact release date.


    “All things such as censorship and subtitles have already been finished,” Sjafruddin said. “We need some 90 copies and they are now under process.”


    He also announced that Transformers 3 and Kung Fu Panda 2 would be released in the next few weeks.


    The announcement signals relief for moviegoers forced for months to make do with local productions and second-tier foreign releases because of the protracted dispute between studios, film importers and the government.


    In February, six major Hollywood studios withdrew films from Indonesia, a Muslim-majority nation of 237 million people, in opposition to a new levy on imported movies that was meant to protect local filmmakers.


    Last month the government announced a revised tax it said would bring back Hollywood movies, but their return had been blocked by another dispute.