OUR SLATE

HYPERLOCAL ENTERTAINMENT: MYR250M IS JUST THE BEGINNING

“Local movies are expected to contribute to 30% of the box office revenue, noting that local movies had consistently been top titles at GSC as their storylines resonate well with the local audience.”

— GSC Group CEO Koh Mei Lee, via The Edge, March 2025

Hollywood is still a juggernaut, but its hits are getting fewer. Not because movies aren’t relevant anymore, as many people think, but because audience taste has diversified. Alongside a little Hollywood, Bollywood, Korean and Chinese cinema, audiences now want a taste of home: stories that speak to their lives, set in places they know, with faces they recognise.

The Malaysian film industry is at that exact turning point. Audiences drove local box office to MYR250M in 2025. Yet our proprietary analysis of FINAS data shows only 17% of the top-grossing local films made a profit. Why? Because too many producers forget what legendary director Alfred Hitchcock always knew: a great film needs three things, “the script, the script and the script.”

With over 25 years in the industry, we understand the script problem and, more importantly, we know how to solve it. We also understand the market gap: what audiences want, even when they don’t know it yet. Genre films in underserved spaces like romance and drama, built on Hollywood-level storytelling, smart talent packaging and a high-quality technical finish.

This is the core of our Alpha Slate, and the foundation of Studio B,  a mini-major we are building. For details of the slate and our data deck, reach out to us below.