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  WHO WE BECOME Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Director PJ Raval Music Timo Chen Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Netflix documentary Kapwa, a Filipino term that means "togetherness" or "neighbour", is a recognition of a shared identity; an inner self that is shared with others. WHO WE BECOME is a story of kapwa and follows three Filipino women each coming into their political consciousness and discovering themselves during a pivotal moment in their lives? Who We Become Ost on Spotify As the world grapples with an emerging global pandemic, three young Filipino women forge unexpected connections with their families and discover themselves in the process. A self-documented time capsule during turbulent times, WHO WE BECOME captures the unbreakable bond between Filipino family and community. Who We Become Ost on Apple Music This soundtrack is largely made up of tradi ti onal Filipino and addi ti onal Asian instrumental textures set within a Texas-influenced ...

MY NAME IS VENDETTA (Il mio nome e Vendetta) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack A film by Cosimo Gomez Stared by Alessandro Gassman, Remo Girone… Music by Giorgio Giamp à  – Marta Lucchesini  Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd A Netflix Film After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge…  Statement : My Name is Vendetta is a film about physical and emotional survival. The music tells the story of the characters' struggle in solving an impossible riddle to stay united and alive. We move quickly from the slow, soft, and welcoming rhythms of a daughter's affection for her father, to the wild, percussive, and noisy races of escaping death. Likewise, we move from being glued to each sync to alienating ourselves from what is happening in the scene embracing Santo and Sofia's story in its entirety. The use of synthetic timbres has allowed us to exploit the sam...

“I know, there is still a lot of skepticism on co-productions, simply because the case history is not large enough. Yet, I can tell you that a whole new slate of films is on its way. What amuses me is I know that this skepticism will (become) enthusiasm when the first breakthrough co-production film comes into being in the market.” said Cristiano Bortone, Managing Director of Bridging The Dragon, in a previous interview with CFI in May. Soon after the interview, U.S.-China co-production The Meg became a huge hit after many previous co-production attempts had fallen short. Produced by Warner Brothers and China Media Capital’s Gravity Pictures, the film was released in August and went on to overtake  Kung Fu Panda 3  as the highest-grossing U.S.-China co-production of all time, earning $527.8 million worldwide. The enthusiasm for co-production has likely been enhanced by the success of The Meg , as evidenced by the great turnout of Bridging The Dragon’s recent Si...

Is Netflix Getting Out of the Film Business? Subscribers watching licensed and original television series’ content on Netflix account for more than two-thirds of viewing time. Series viewership outpaces overall growth mainly because Netflix has dedicated vast resources to becoming a content producer rather than remaining only an aggregator. Although Netflix has acquired rights to a modest number of films at Sundance, Cannes, and TIFF, their U.S. film streaming library remains weak. Technology Company to Motion Picture Production For every $8 per month Netflix collects from its 100 million subscribers, between $6-7 is spent on content production and licensing. More than half of these content costs now fuels Netflix original programming, which has soared. The size of Netflix’s film library has steadily decreased over the last two years. Currently, on the U.S. site, less than 25 out of the top 250 films rated by IMDB are available. Conversely, HBO has licensed over ...

Chinese video streaming platform Bilibili is on course for an IPO in New York that could raise at least $200 million, a source told Bloomberg. The eight-year-old site has become the nexus for young Chinese in love with the ACG culture of animation, comics, and games. In 2016, the top searched keyword on Baidu among China’s post-00s generation is “Bilibili”, followed by “Taobao.” Less than 10% of Bilibili’s 100 million active users are above 25, Chairman Chen Rui revealed in a speech last December. China’s ACG market, like the online video gaming with which it shares a large user overlap, is lucrative. In 2016, China had 270 million ACG users (in Chinese)—that’s one in five Chinese, according to iResearch estimates. In 2015, China’s ACG industry hit a market value of 100 billion RMB and growth is expected to continue, says Qianzhan Industry Institute. Brands from KFC,...

This time, we take a look at Netflix’s revelatory latest quarterly results – in which it posted $2.8bn in revenue and nearly $70m in profit – within the context of recent updates from Apple and Spotify. That wasn’t the original headline to this article. The original headline to this article was actually: ‘Netflix is growing faster than Apple Music – despite being 20 years old.’ That’s true (although Netflix’s video-on-demand service didn’t technically launch until 2007 – so ‘despite being a decade old’ might have been a tad fairer.) Yet in the process of writing up this story, and putting together some research for its arrival, we discovered something more important. It’s a single graph which explains in a snapshot why Netflix is storming ahead as a profitable subscription company… and why Spotify is not. But before all of that, a bit of background. Yesterday, Netflix issued its latest quarterly financial results, for the three months to end of June (Q2 2017). The bi...

Episodes of “BoJack Horseman” — Netflix’s adult animated comedy about an alcoholic half-man/half-horse who’s a washed-up TV star — were removed last week from Chinese streaming service iQiyi after evidently running afoul of government censors. Three episodes of the show debuted June 19 on iQiyi before they were pulled two days later, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. A rep for iQiyi explained that “adjustments need to be made to the content”; there is no indication about when “BoJack” might return to the service. Netflix did not respond to a request for comment. Netflix last year abandoned plans to launch its own streaming service in China — at least for the foreseeable future — citing regulatory challenges. Instead, the company inked a licensing pact with iQiyi in April to carry its original programming in the Middle Kingdom. According to iQiyi, the company has 500 million monthly users for its ad-supported video service. Last month, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings ...