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EXCLUSIVE: Vietnamese accumulation outfit Bluebells Studios has unveiled a trio of caller films group for theatrical merchandise successful 2027 pursuing nan record-breaking occurrence of its astir caller release, Phi Phong: The Blood Demon, which has go Vietnam’s highest-grossing scary movie of each time.
The caller slate includes projects from Duong Minh Chien – whose past movie Fish, Fists And Ambergris, was a deed successful Vietnam and selected to surface astatine International Film Festival Rotterdam – arsenic good arsenic caller projects from Le Thanh Son and Dinh Thai Thuy.
Founded by Nguyen Xuan Quan and Trang Doan, Bluebells Studios is processing theatrical projects aimed astatine some section and world markets, presently focusing connected nan horror, action escapade and warfare epic genres.
The institution operates alongside its sister institution Mockingbird Pictures, which distributes section and world films successful nan Vietnam market, and besides handles world income connected Vietnamese and different Southeast Asian films.
The caller slate includes Duong Minh Chien’s Extraordinary Kingdom, group for merchandise during nan Lunar New Year 2027 holiday, an action drama escapade group during a turbulent play of Vietnamese history successful nan 10th period known arsenic nan ‘Anarchy of nan 12 Warlords’.
The communicative follows a group of improbable heroes, including 2 naive brothers, 2 mysterious female warriors, and a blacksmith pinch a hidden past, arsenic they are drawn into a conflict against a ruthless set of warlords terrorizing nan land.
Meanwhile, Le Thanh Son is returning to big-budget action pinch Final Firestorm, group for Vietnamese merchandise complete nan Reunification Day vacation (April 30) successful 2027. Inspired by nan real-life communicative of Nguyen Thanh Trung – nan aviator down 1 of nan astir daring aerial missions successful Vietnam’s modern history – nan movie will harvester a communicative of heroism pinch large-scale aerial action scenes.
Bluebells Studios said nan task “aims to grant a historical enactment of bravery while delivering a gripping cinematic acquisition that blends high-intensity aerial action pinch profoundly quality storytelling”.
Le Thanh Son is 1 of Vietnam’s starring commercialized filmmakers, 1 of nan first to subordinate nan VND100B ($4M) container agency club, pinch early credits including 2009 action movie Clash, which helped redefine nan modern Vietnamese action genre.
Rounding retired Bluebells Studios’ 2027 slate is scary movie Curse Of The Headless Army, directed by Dinh Thai Thuy, which has imaginative input from Do Quoc Trung – head of Phi Phong: The Blood Demon.
The movie revolves astir a disgraced psychic who awakens a cursed service led by a headless wide heavy successful nan jungle, forcing her to face an ancient evil and uncover nan truth down a relentless supernatural force.
Bluebells Studios’ astir caller production, Phi Phong: The Blood Demon, has grossed $7.3M since its April 24 merchandise making it nan 2nd biggest movie of 2026 and nan highest-grossing Vietnamese scary movie of each time.
Phong Duong, Business Director of Mockingbird Pictures and 1 of nan executive producers astatine Bluebells Studios, said: “With this 2027 slate, we are continuing to put successful arena films that tin execute powerfully during cardinal merchandise windows successful Vietnam.
“At nan aforesaid time, each task is developed pinch world audiences successful mind. We spot increasing request for Southeast Asian stories globally, and we judge these films person beardown imaginable to recreation beyond nan home market.”
