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Indonesian director Joko Anwar’s The Siege at Thorn High has wrapped production and is slated for a theatrical release in Indonesia in 2025.

The film is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Anwar’s Come and See Pictures, and was first announced as a Prime Video title in 2022 as part of the streamer’s Southeast Asian originals slate. Prime Video has since reeled back spending in Southeast Asia and laid off the region’s originals production team.

Set in the tumultuous near-future of Indonesia in 2027, The Siege at Thorn High follows Edwin, a young substitute teacher at a school for juvenile delinquents, whose own inner demons complicate his battle for survival once the school turns into a battleground.

Morgan Oey, Omara Esteghlal and Hana Malasan lead the cast of The Siege at Thorn High. Fatih Unru, Satine Zaneta, Dewa Dayana, Florian Rutters, Faris Fadjar Munggaran, Sandy Pradana and Farandika round off the film’s ensemble.

A sequel to Joko Anwar‘s horror movie Satan’s Slaves is on the way, with Deadline announcing that Shudder has acquired Satan’s Slaves: Communion, also directed by Joko Anwar.

Deadline reports, “The film, which is the first Indonesian movie shot with IMAX technology, will stream exclusively on Shudder in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand from November 4. Released theatrically in Indonesia in August, the film became one of the first local productions to score big at the post-pandemic box office.”

The sequel “revolves around a family living in a rundown apartment after escaping terror from their mother, who returned from death, not knowing that their new home is a bigger threat to their lives.”

Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Endy Arfian, Nasar Anuz, Egi Fedly and Ayu Laksmi are back for the sequel, starring alongside new faces including Muzakki Ramdhan, Fatih Unru, Ratu Felisha,...

Exclusive: AMC Networks’ streaming service Shudder has acquired multiple territory rights to Satan’s Slaves: Communion, the sequel to Shudder Original Satan’s Slaves, from Indonesian writer-director Joko Anwar.

The film, which is the first Indonesian movie shot with IMAX technology, will stream exclusively on Shudder in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand from November 4. Released theatrically in Indonesia in August, the film became one of the first local productions to score big at the post-pandemic box office.

Produced by Tia Hasibuan, Gope T. Samtani and Sunil Samtani, the film revolves around a family living in a rundown apartment after escaping terror from their mother, who returned from death, not knowing that their new home is a bigger threat to their lives.

Returning cast members to the franchise include Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Endy Arfian, Nasar Anuz, Egi Fedly and Ayu Laksmi. New cast in the sequel includes Muzakki Ramdhan,...

“Satan’s Slaves: Communion,” from genre-film meister Jojo Anwar is poised to be the first film from Indonesia to release in the large screen Imax format.

Anwar himself took to Instagram to make the announcement and tout the film’s release on Saturday.

“Confirmed. Bigger. More thunderous! More fun! Satan’s Slaves: Communion is the first Indonesian film (and the first local film in Southeast Asia) with IMAX technology and will be available in all IMAX cinemas throughout Indonesia!,” he said on the messaging platform. He also teased the nine Imax screens in the country that will showcase the movie.

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The film is a follow-on from his 2017 “Satan’s Slaves” in which a woman and her family are terrorized in their house and learn that the woman’s dead mother was involved in the occult. The new film...