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Movie Distribution Firm Taps Asian Content Niche.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Woranuj Maneerungsee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 26--Although Thailand's motion picture market is dominated by American movies, there is still a niche for Asian movies, according to Wichien Koopthanarong, managing director of Amigo Studio Co.
Amigo, a major distributor of Chinese martial-arts series, Korean soap operas and Japanese animation films in the form of VCDs and DVDs, earned hundreds of millions of baht annually, Mr Wichien said, but declined to give exact figures.
He said it was difficult to gauge the total market value of VCD sales of Asian motion pictures. The market value of Hollywood films shown at theatres alone is about two billion baht annually, excluding sales in the form of...
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