Singapore’s Mediacorp and Shanghai-based Hong Kong-listed Linmon Media have flagged their first production alliance, putting a new stake in the ground for Chinese-language originals – Asia’s fastest-growing content segment – with a MoU announced today during the ATF market in Singapore.

The companies said during Linmon International’s 2025 line-up showcase at ATF in Singapore this afternoon that the strategic partnership paved the way “for stronger cross-border collaboration in content production”.

Although no details were disclosed, insiders say this MoU already has concrete initiatives and commitments.

The MOU, announced by Mediacorp’s chief content officer Virginia Lim and Linmon Media co-founder Zhou Yuan, is the latest in Mediacorp’s ramped up efforts to partner with prominent players in the global media industry.

In a second MoU announced today, Mediacorp and Taiwan’s Three Giant Production (“Bump Off Lover”) said they were collaborating on a print-to-screen adaptation of supernatural romance Chinese drama, “Our Midnight Scary Tales”. This is the first time the two companies are working together. The series, scheduled to go into production in 2025, is based on a novel about a boy with an ability to see spirits who travels to Singapore and falls in love with a girl who longs to reconnect with her deceased grandfather.

In addition to “Moonlit Reunion” and costume dramas that Linmon showcased at TIFFCOM in Tokyo in October, this afternoon’s 2025 presentation in Singapore featured suspense/crime series “Under the Skin 2”, a continuation of 2022’s season one. Tan Jianci and Jin Shijia star in the new version, slated to release in mid-December 2025.

Linmon also talked today about suspense film, “The Unseen Sister” (112 mins), directed by Midi Z and starring Zhao Liying, Xin Zhilei, Huang Jue and Dong Baoshi.

In October, Linmon Pictures offered updates of four large-scale costume drama series scheduled for release through 2025 and early 2026. The company said period-historical series were a growth area.

Upcoming shows include “Moonlit Reunion” (34x45-minute), a lush romantic-fantasy drama, set in Chang An city during the Tang Dynasty period. The series stars Xu Kai and Tian Xiwei as a woman who is half-demon, half human and a (male) demon hunter. With Tencent Video set as its China partner, the show is expected to premiere in the second quarter of 2025.

The three other titles are costume comedy, “A Dream Within a Dream”; “In the Moonlight”, a 40x45-minute costume romance about an impoverished princess and a sickly and demanding emperor who are forced into a marriage of convenience; and costume romance “A Journey to Glow”, likely to deliver in 2026.

Linmon has previously reported that, in making mostly premium content, it deploys per episode budgets of RMB4-6 million (US$560,000–$840,000).

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