Jack Neo’s J Staff, Clover Movies Launch HiJack Footage

New Singapore-based manufacturing firm HiJack Footage is being launched by distributor and producer Clover Movies and J Staff Productions, the corporate managed by the nation’s most commercially profitable filmmaker Jack Neo.

HiJack will probably be equally owned by the 2 events and units itself the mission to “produce high quality content material that appeals to the worldwide viewers.” The brand new firm’s board administrators are Clover Movies founders Lim Teck and Paulyn Chua and J Staff’s Neo and Irene Kng.

“We hope to nurture a brand new technology of Singaporean filmmakers, to supply commercially viable content material which additionally connects with the viewers. We hope to work with regional companions in producing a slate of characteristic content material that I’ll helm or supervise. There may be nice potential on this collaboration of our two corporations and we sit up for making this synergy work,” stated Neo. No new titles or enterprise relationships have been disclosed.

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

Based some 13 years in the past, Clover Movies specializes within the distribution and manufacturing of Asian movies in Southeast Asia. It has distributed and marketed titles together with “Practice to Busan,” “Shockwave 1 & 2,” “Shoplifters,” “Parasite,” “Pricey Tenant” and “Higher Days.” As a co-producer it has been concerned in “Filial Occasion,” “King of Mahjong,” “Ramen The,” “Reunion Dinner” and Neo’s “Ah Boys to Males 1 & 2.”

In June 2021, Clover agreed to promote a majority fairness stake to inventory market-listed mini conglomerate GHY Tradition. Nevertheless, a couple of months later the deal was canceled with out rationalization.

J Staff’s credit embody the “Ah Boys to Males” franchise, the “I Not Silly” franchise, and the award-winning “Homerun.” Neo was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2005 for his contribution to the Singapore media business.