Noticias

Indonesian cinema admissions increased by 10% to reach 126.22 million in 2024, according to figures from Bicara Box Office, with local films pulling in 80.21 million admissions for a 65% market share.

Last year, Indonesia’s local movies sailed past the all-time annual admissions record in just nine months from January to September, driven by hits such as comedy horror Agak Laen and a host of other horror films and family dramas. The previous record was set in 2022 when local productions, headed by horror Kkn Di Desa Penari, racked up 58.16 million admissions by the end of the year.

Agak Laen, produced by Imajinari Pictures, remains the biggest film of 2024 overall, with 9.13M admissions, followed by horror film Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari (5.82M admissions), comedy horror Kang Mak (4.86M), family drama Ipar Adalah Maut (4.78M), Kkn prequel Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (4.02M), Joko Anwar horror Grave Torture (4M) and family drama Bila Esok Ibu Tiada...

In the sea of content on Netflix coming from Asia, “Kang Mak Pee Mak” is certainly one of the most entertaining you can find. The ghost dramedy based on a beloved Thai original, and directed by Indonesian helmer Herwin Novianto isn’t short of crazy ideas and cynical commentaries on the country’s history, politics, and local superstitions, and it does the trick with the winning elegance of a movie that doesn’t pretend to be something more than an exciting time-eater. As we know, it is one of the hardest things to pull off, and Novianto knows his trade.

A brief scene introduces us to the highly pregnant Sari (Marsha Timothy) who waits for her beloved husband Makmur (Vino G. Bastian) to return from the war. While he is doing everything possible to stay alive and rejoin his family, Sari succumbs while giving birth. Yet, her ghost remains, and...

You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information.

“Squid Game” Season 2 has become the No. 2 most popular non-English series in Netflix history.

The second installment of the Lee Jung-jae-led series brought in 126.2 million views in just 11 days on Netflix, ranking the No. 2 most-watched non-English series, behind just “Squid Game” Season 1. Amassing this many views in this time frame marks a new record for the streaming giant.

In the second week since its release, “Squid Game” Season 2 jumped to from No. 7 to No. 2 on the weekly most-watched non-English shows list, capturing 58.2 million views during the week of Dec. 30. Season 2’s success has also caused Netflix subscribers to return to its first installment. “Squid Game” Season 1 scored 13.6 million views during the week of Dec. 30, putting it as No. 2 on Netflix’s non-English TV charts.

It’s not too...

“Kang Mak” is a 2025 Indonesian film directed by Herwin Novianto. The movie is headlined by ino G. Bastian as Makmur, Marsha Timothy as Sari, Indro Warkop as Supra, Tora Sudiro as Jaka, and more. “Kang Mak” tells the story of Makmur, a soldier who returns to his home not knowing that his wife has died, and now lives as a spirit.

Kang Mak (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis: Who are Makmur & Sari?

Makmur has been at war for months, defending his country’s borders from a foreign invasion. Yet, even with bullets flying around him, his thoughts often call to his beautiful, pregnant wife back home. Before he left, Makmur promised her that the mission wouldn’t take long and that he’d return before she even noticed he was gone. Life in the army barracks is far from easy. Bullets have claimed the lives of many soldiers. They have been left with lifelong disabilities.

I started watching Kang Mak with no real expectations. Maybe that’s why I didn’t mind it too much. It has its share of cringe-worthy moments between the two leads, Makmur and his wife, Sari, which some may find cute, but other than that, there wasn’t anything exceptional. The Indonesian film, set somewhere around the 1970s, is an official remake of Pee Mak, Thailand’s highest-grossing film of all time. Based on Thai folklore, the story centers around a war veteran, Makmur, who returns to his village with his army friends to meet his wife, Sari, and his kid. [Spoiler Alert] Upon arrival, his four friends, Supra, Jaka, Solah, and Fajrul, figure out that Sari is already dead, but instead of leaving the village behind, they try to help their friend and save him from the ghost of his own wife, but it turns out Makmur knew everything from the...

Indonesian movies have sailed past the all-time annual admissions record in just nine months from January to September 2024, with new releases pulling in 61.25 million ticket sales, according to data from local box office analyst Bicara Box Office.

The previous record was set in 2022 when local productions racked up 58.16 million admissions by the end of the year. Calendar year total admissions for all films, including local and foreign, had reached 95.56 million by the end of September. Local productions currently have around a 66% market share.

Imajinari’s horror comedy Agak Laen remains the biggest film of the year, drawing 9.1 million admissions, followed by horror thriller Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari with 5.8 million admissions and Falcon Pictures’ Kang Mak, a remake of Thai horror comedy blockbuster Pee Mak, with 4.9 million.

Kang Mak

The next three films in the 2024 top ten are also local productions – infidelity drama Ipar Adalah Maut (4.8 million) and horror prequel Dancing Village: The Curse Begins...

Indonesia’s Falcon Pictures is producing a sequel and animated series based on its local-language remake of Korean drama Miracle In Cell No. 7, which was a hit in Indonesia in 2022.

Falcon and the original IP’s owner, Korean studio Contents Panda (New), held an event today at Busan’s Asian Contents and Film Market (Acfm) to talk about the project, which is unusual in that there was no sequel to the Korean original film.

The film, which has also been remade in Turkey and the Philippines, is about a developmentally disabled man wrongfully imprisoned for murder, who enlists hardened criminals to smuggle his daughter into prison so he can see her again.

The Indonesian sequel, which continues the story of the daughter, again stars Graciella Abigail but has a new director, Herwin Novianto, and writer, Alim Sudio. Indonesian release is scheduled for December 25, 2024. Daryl Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Falcon’s Kumata Animation Studio,...