Korean studio Barunson E&A, which beforehand produced Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, has unveiled a world partnership with Indonesian studio Imajinari, targeted on remake rights.
Underneath the deal, Barunson E&A will deal with worldwide remake rights for 3 of Imajinari’s titles: hit horror-comedy Agak Laen, its upcoming sequel Agak Laen 2, and the darkish comedy Tinggal Meninggal.
This deal marks Barunson E&A’s enlargement of its worldwide enterprise past co-production and worldwide gross sales, to remake rights. Focusing most of those efforts on the Southeast Asian area during the last three years, Barunson E&A has already collaborated on a number of Indonesian titles, together with motion thriller 13 Bombs (produced by Visinema Footage), horror movie Respati (by Base Leisure), and musical Rangga & Cinta (produced by Miles Movies).
Imajinari was based in 2021 by comedian-director Ernest Prakasa and his supervisor Dipa Andika as a part of Hahaha Corp, a expertise company that represents Indonesian comedians.
2024 title Agak Laen is Imajinari’s largest hit, notching 9.1 million admissions to turn out to be the most-watched Indonesian comedy of all time and the second highest native movie by admissions total. Primarily based on a podcast collection of the identical title, the movie follows a gaggle of misfits who unintentionally flip their not-so-scary haunted home right into a viral sensation when an actual ghost begins haunting it. The sequel, Agak Laen 2 is scheduled for launch in This autumn 2025.
Imajinari will roll out Tinggal Meninggal in August 7, a darkish comedy presently in post-production. The movie follows Gema, a lonely man who begins telling small lies to get his coworkers’ consideration — till these lies snowball and will get much more difficult as he goes alongside.
“Our philosophy has all the time been about telling authentic tales in ways in which shock and interact the viewers,” stated Imajinari founder Ernest Prakasa. “It’s thrilling to collaborate with Barunson E&A and see how our creativity will be reimagined by remakes around the globe.”
Yoonhee Choi, CEO of Barunson E&A, added: “With Imajinari, we see a studio that excels at telling deeply relatable tales — about household, love, and human connection—however with contemporary and entertaining views. We’re excited to introduce their distinctive IPs to world audiences and share artistic voices that deserve wider recognition.”
