Friday 18 March 2016

MALAYSIA'S ANIMASIA STUDIO TO CO-OPERATE WITH CHINA'S ZERO ONE ANIMATION IN MAKING ANIMATED FEATURE FILM CHUCK CHICKEN - THE MOVIE

HONG KONG, March 14 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s Animasia Studio has successfully inked a deal with Zero One Animation of China to co-operate for a new CGI animated movie titled Chuck Chicken – The Movie at Hong Kong FILMART 2016 today. This brand new animated movie is a spinoff from the successful animated TV series, "Chuck Chicken a.k.a. KungFu Chicken", which premiered on Disney China (includes Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau), Disney South East Asia, Nickelodeon India (includes South Asia), Middle East and the C.I.S regional TV stations. The successful Chuck Chicken TV series has also garnered over 300 million views, within six months of its launch, on China's VOD platform iQIYI (China).

The signing ceremony that took place at the Malaysia Pavilion, witnessed by Mr. Azmir Saifuddin Mutalib, Senior Director of Commercialisation of National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS): Mr. Elvin Law, Fujian Director of Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC): Ms. Huiqin Tang, Representative of Fujian Province Department of Commerce: and Mr. Wan Ke Feng, Representative of Fujian Provincial Administration of Press Publication, Radio, Film & Television will further strengthen the relationship between Malaysia and China in the creative industry. Animation production services are among the biggest contributors to export revenues in the Malaysian creative content industry. This can be seen from the growing revenue of exports from creative content, which has increased to more than USD140 million at end of 2014 from approximately USD46 million in 2009.

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