Singapore’s Clover Movies Groups With Jack Neo To Launch HiJack Photos – Deadline

Singapore-based producer and distributor Clover Movies is teaming with filmmaker Jack Neo’s J Staff Productions to launch a three way partnership manufacturing firm, HiJack Photos. 

The brand new outfit, which has 50:50 possession between Clover Movies and J Staff Productions, goals to provide high quality content material that appeals to worldwide audiences. Clover Movies founders Lim Teck and Paulyn Chua, together with Neo and Irene Kng for J Staff Productions, are administrators of the corporate, which relies in Singapore. 

Neo is Singapore’s most bankable filmmaker with credit together with a string of hits, such because the Ah Boys To Males franchise, I Not Silly collection and award-winning drama Homerun. His manufacturing home J Staff creates content material for each cinema and tv. 

Clover Movies is without doubt one of the area’s best-known distributors, usually buying movies for regional Southeast Asian distribution. The corporate has dealt with titles resembling Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters, Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie hit Practice To Busan, Hong Kong motion movies Shockwave 1 & 2, Hong Kong Oscar-nominated drama Higher Days and award-winning Taiwanese drama Pricey Tenant.

The corporate has additionally co-produced Singapore movies resembling Ah Boys to Males 1 & 2, Filial Celebration, King Of Mahjong, Ramen Teh and Reunion Dinner. 

“We got here up with the identify HiJack Photos as slightly tribute to Singapore’s most profitable filmmaker on the box-office,” mentioned Lim Teck. “After all, we might not thoughts ‘hijacking’ all of the movie initiatives available in the market as properly. In drawing on our respective areas of experience in manufacturing, advertising and distribution, we’re assured of making one thing a lot better than the sum of its components.”

Neo added: “We hope to nurture a brand new era of Singaporean filmmakers, to provide commercially viable content material which additionally connects with the viewers. We hope to work with regional companions in producing a slate of function content material that I’ll helm or supervise. There’s nice potential on this collaboration of our two firms and we stay up for making this synergy work.”