Malaysia’s Abnormal Studios is formally entering the international sales arena at Hong Kong FilMart 2026.
The company previously attended the market under the Westec Media name.
The centerpiece of its debut sales slate is “Because of You Ka Kui,” a feature documentary on Wong Ka Kui, the creative heart of Beyond – broadly considered the defining Canto rock band in music history. Produced by Yip Sai Wing, one of Beyond’s founding members, and Leslie Chan, the manager credited with discovering the group, the film is helmed by Hong Kong director Rosa Pang.
Drawing on candid conversations with people who knew Wong personally and professionally, the film presents an intimate human portrait rather than a conventional celebrity retrospective. It also features rare concert recordings, previously unseen archival material from his formative years, and work he never released publicly.
The broader slate includes a curated body of Indonesian library titles across multiple genres, put together with platform and broadcast buyers in mind. The horror selection spans Rocky Soraya’s “Mata Batin” franchise and three films in the “Doll” series – “The Doll” (2016), “The Doll 2” (2017), and “Sabrina” (2018) – produced by Hitmaker Studios and Soraya Intercine Films. The Indonesian lineup also takes in the critically recognized dramas “5 cm” (2012) and “Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck” (2013); romance titles “Eiffel… I’m in Love” (2003), its 2018 sequel, and “Sunshine Becomes You” (2015); and three comedies fronted by Raditya Dika – “Single” (2015), “The Guys” (2017), and “Target” (2018).
Among the new Southeast Asian features, Malaysian director James Lee brings “Next Stop, Somewhere,” a drama about loneliness and the experience of living away from one’s homeland, with veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong in a lead role. A second Malaysian title, “KL Love Story,” is an ensemble urban drama from director Teng Bee set within Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese community, with a cast including Haoren, Ms Puiyi, Thomas Kok, Jacqueline Tiang, Tong Bing Yu, and Steve Yap.
From Vietnam, Trấn Thành directs “Bunny!!,” a romantic feature told through three interlocking love stories, while Đinh Tuấn Vũ offers “The Hermit Crab,” a horror film in which a widower begins to suspect his wife’s death was not what it seemed.
Abnormal Studios also arrives at FilMart with a diverse Cambodian lineup. Jimmy Henderson, who directed “Jailbreak” (2017), is in production on “What the Darkness Keeps,” an action horror in which a vacationing couple find themselves hunted to feed a mysterious creature. Other Cambodian titles include “Wedding Dress,” which relocates a Korean source story to Phnom Penh to explore love, resilience, and loss; “The Ghost of Banana Tree,” a contemporary retelling of a local ghost legend; “Far Away Close to You,” a portrait of young love and paths not taken from director Mony Kann Darung; “Silent Murders,” a crime thriller set in Cambodia’s criminal underworld from filmmaker Amit Dubey; and “Her Deadly Eyes,” a revenge horror adapted from a popular Cambodian e-novel.
The company is also bringing several projects to market in search of pre-sales, co-production, and financing partners. These include “An Angel Lurks on the Streets of Kyoto,” helmed by Chen Gongming, which follows a Japanese housewife whose life is upended after a lottery win, and “Thaiwan Boyz,” an eight-episode cross-cultural LGBTQ action drama set in the world of Muay Thai. Two Taiwanese vertical drama series round out the development slate: “The Sister Who Carried Evil,” a supernatural horror series, and “Summer Serendipity,” a romantic drama.
A subsidiary of Westec Media Limited, Abnormal Studios has handled more than 400 titles since 2020 across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Nepal, releasing roughly 100 films a year. Its distribution credits include “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” and “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.”
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