In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service made its pilot launch in Taiwan. Through our passion for movies and the belief in co-creation, internally and together with local leading operator’s partnership – we made it a mission to provide the ultimate content offering tailored for each market’s unique needs and deliver superior user experience that will be cherished by movie lovers universally.

Instead of adopting major international players’ one ‘offer-fits-all’ strategy, we at CATCHPLAY with years of experience and passion for content, believes and embraces the importance of individual market’s unique needs and preference of content. In 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition to become Asia’s largest movie content service provider. Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies – CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated – with involvement from production, distribution, linear movie channel operation and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services. This was followed by expanded partnerships with Telkomsel, Indosat and First Media, and in Singapore, collaboration with the market’s leading telecommunication operator, StarHub. In June 2016, the service platform launched in Indonesia, collaborating with market leaders IndiHome, Telkom Indonesia. In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service platform made its pilot launch in Taiwan in partnerships with major telecommunication operators and device manufacturers. In addition to content aggregation, in 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition of becoming the leading premium content service provider for movie lovers in Asia. Today, we are the largest provider for premium movie content in Taiwan, aggregating content from Hollywood studios including Disney, Warner Bros., NBC Universal and Paramount in addition to having a wide selection of international independent films and leading local productions for distribution on major operators’ digital platforms. Today, CATCHPLAY continues to look into investment and co-production opportunities internationally and in Asia targeting particularly Chinese-speaking territories and South East Asia following our recent expansion footprints.ĬATCHPLAY started placing significant emphasis on the development of digital movie content years before the others did in Taiwan. In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market.

There were lot of cringe inducing scenes like the surprise twist, three guys who call themselves the legion etc.In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. The director deliberately doesnt want us to recognize some actors faces i think. The camera angle is always too close the actors faces and it is very jarring. The action sequences had a lot of promise but its mostly close combat sequences which are filmed with shaky camera and million cuts stitched to make it look cool. Stallone is super bland and unimpressive in this movie. The rest of the cast just read through their lines and put zero effort into anything. He plays a typical macho kick ass action hero's role quite well. I am not sure how popular he is in the east cinemas but he does a good job in this movie. Sylvester, Bautista, 50 cent are pretty much guest roles in this movie Staring ' Shu Ren'. We have seen hollywood bending a bit to add in some chinese flavor in several movies but this movie takes the cake. Įscape Plan 2: Hades is an out and out Bmovie made purely for the Chinese market. While the movie didnt leave any lasting impression, it sort of entertained us for those 90-odd mins. Our 80s heroes, Sylvester and Arnie with Jesus Caviezel as the antagonist. Escape Plan 1 was an average movie but gave us what was promised.

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