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Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Taiwan’s Content Agency and Partners Put $180 Million Into 27 Projects, From an ‘Our Blues’ Remake to an Off-Broadway Musical

The Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and its partners have invested in 27 projects, backed by NT$5.64 billion ($180 million) in total, including NT$740 million ($23.7 million) from the agency and NT$4.9 billion ($157 million) in private capital, TAICCA chair Sue Wang said at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). TAICCA brought together its four […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Former NCT Member Lucas Wong Makes Acting Debut in Taiwanese Folk-Music Drama ‘A Time’ With Jerry Yan, Ning Chang at Taiwan Creative Content Fest

Taiwanese director Tsao Jui-yuan unveiled his new drama series “A Time,” rooted in Taiwan’s campus folk music movement of the 1970s, at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). Tsao, known for “Crystal Boys,” “A Touch of Green” and “Seqalu: Formosa 1867,” spent eight years developing the project, which traces four decades of friendship, love and […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Murder-House Impostor Thriller ‘The Stand-In Family’ Wins Mirror Fiction Award at Taiwan Creative Content Fest

Taiwanese literary IP developer and production company Mirror Fiction announced the winners of its fifth Mirror Fiction Award and unveiled five projects for its 2027 slate at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). The NT$1 million ($32,000) Grand Prize went to Iris Kong for “The Stand-In Family” (provisional title), a suspense novel about four strangers […

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

IP Companies Spin Books Into Sold-Out Plays, Series and Signature Scents at Taiwan Creative Content Fest

Taiwanese companies laid out how original stories can grow from books into stage plays, series, fragrances and even travel itineraries at a Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) session on cross-sector intellectual property in Taipei. “The original intention behind developing IP is for the industry to thrive together, so everyone can make money,” said Mimi Wan

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

AI Filmmaking Platform Core Studio Launches at Taiwan Creative Content Fest With 24 Specialized Agents

Taiwanese technology company imCore Corp. launched Core Studio, an AI filmmaking platform that aims to cover the full production process, from script development and storyboarding to image generation, editing and color grading, at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei on Saturday. Built by a Taiwanese team with roots in animation and visual effec

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Unveils 10 Content Investments, From ‘Gunshot’ to ‘Call of Lobster’

Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecom operator, announced 10 new investments at its “Chunghwa Telecom Content Slate and Partnership Showcase,” spanning film, TV and music projects as well as stakes in two production companies. The company pitched the slate as a way to back Taiwanese original IP and link local creators with partners abroad. The event […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Chang Chen Urges Emerging Taiwanese Actors to ‘Be Like Water’ at Taiwan Creative Content Fest Golden Horse Showcase

Chang Chen, chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and last year’s Golden Horse best leading actor winner for “Lucky Lu,” advised six of Taiwan’s rising performers on working across different film sets at a Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) showcase in Taipei. The “TCCF x The Golden Horse Awards: Taiwan Emerging […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Cannes, Annecy-Winning ‘Iron Boy’ Producer Eddy Cinema Backs Memory-Erasure Animation ‘Wilderness of the Greenriver’ at Taiwan Creative Content Fest

A man who has no memory of his past finds out that a patient is the sister he lost in “Wilderness of the Greenriver,” an animated feature from Barcelona-based Hong Kong director Ellis Kayin Chan that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The film is set in a world where technology […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Alien Cat Sent to Conquer Earth Goes Soft for Catnip and Canned Tuna in Taiwan Creative Content Fest Animated Series ‘Operation Maomao’

An alien cat sent to seize Earth’s catnip supply gets sidetracked by a cozy couch and a steady diet of canned tuna in “Operation Maomao,” an animated sci-fi comedy series from Shaogao creator Jonathan Yu that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The planned 26-episode series, with seven-minute installments, follows Agent […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

AI’s Hidden Footprint, From Quartz Mines to Kenyan Click-Workers, Bared in Taiwan Creative Content Fest Doc ‘The Technological Sublime’

Talk of artificial intelligence tends to float somewhere up in the cloud. “The Technological Sublime,” a documentary from director Jannes Callens that heads to the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei, brings it back down to earth. The film follows the physical supply chain that keeps AI running, starting at quartz mines in the […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Fox Commits to Carrying Non-Fox Content on Roku for at Least 3 Years as DOJ Closes Antitrust Investigation

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Friday announced that it closed its investigation into Fox Corp.’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku after finding the deal “is not likely to result in harm to competition.” However, Fox — which announced the completion of the Roku deal Friday — made several commitments to the DOJ in connection […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Taiwan Audience Study Highlights Cross-Platform IP Opportunities as AI Raises New Risks for Content Industry

Taiwanese audiences are consuming entertainment across film, television, music, publishing and gaming, creating opportunities for cross-platform IP development, according to research presented by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei on Friday. At the “Exclusive Insights Report: Taiwan Cross-Platform Aud

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
DeadlineEN

Taiwan Creative Content Fest Opens With Focus On IP, Co-Production & Pledges Of Government Support

The seventh edition of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) kicked off today with talk of bolstering Taiwan’s intellectual property (IP); reaching out to international markets through co-production and exports; and a reassuring message on government support. Sue Wang, chair of TCCF organizer Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), opened proceedings by first

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Foot Fetish Encounter Leaves a Body in the Freezer in Singapore Dark Comedy Taiwan Creative Content Fest Project ‘Build to Order’

A young Singaporean couple who sell pictures of the wife’s feet online end up with a corpse in their freezer in “Build to Order,” the debut feature from director Huang Junxiang, which is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei this week. Singaporean couple Penny and Allan both work in real estate. They […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Gay Influencer Famed for Dancing in High Heels Faces Middle Age in Nine-Year Taiwan Creative Content Fest Documentary ‘My Silly Flirty Boys’

A gay influencer in Taiwan who became famous dancing in high heels, and the filmmaker who trained his camera on him for nine years, both stare down middle age in “My Silly Flirty Boys.” The documentary from Taiwan-based Hong Kong filmmaker Frankie Sin is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. Sin followed […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Amnesiac Surgeon Confronts His Organ-Trafficking Past in Taiwan Creative Content Fest Series ‘Hannibal Inside’

An amnesiac sashimi chef learns he was once the star surgeon of an organ-trafficking syndicate in “Hannibal Inside,” a crime thriller series from Studio76 adapted from “The Monster Community,” a novel the producers picked up from Kadokawa Taiwan. The project is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. Two years after a car […]

Technology🇺🇸 US
The VergeEN

Apple will check shared iCloud links for ‘harmful content’

Apple will start checking iCloud items that are accessible to anyone who has the link for "harmful content" starting with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 updates, the company says. "When you share an item that can be accessed by Anyone with the Link in version 27.3 or later of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, that […]

Politics🇬🇧 GB
The GuardianEN

‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry

<p>Cost of living and AI outrank climate change and war as top concerns for future, but support for multiculturalism remains strong</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily political email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/s

Technology🇺🇸 US
The VergeEN

YouTuber Druski is going to make exclusive content for Netflix

Netflix today announced a multiyear deal with the YouTuber, comedian, and influencer Druski, and he'll create original content "exclusively" for the streaming service. The announcement is the latest in Netflix's efforts to bring creators onto the platform, having previously landed deals with YouTubers including Mark Rober, Ms. Rachel, and Good Mythical Morni

World🇫🇷 FR
Le MondeFR

Elena, 26 ans, créatrice de contenu, 1 200 à 2 700 euros par mois : « Ma mère subvient à mes besoins, je me suis longtemps contentée de ce confort »

« La bonne paye ». Chaque semaine, « Le Monde » parle d’argent avec les jeunes. Que signifie « bien gagner sa vie » ? Comment se projettent-ils dans l’avenir ? Cette semaine, Elena (le prénom a été modifié) raconte comment sa condition sociale privilégiée a pu la desservir pour le travail.

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