Astro Shaw

Astro Shaw and Tayangan Unggul

Established in 1996 under the Astro Shaw and Tayangan Unggul brand, Astro Shaw produced its first film Nafas Cinta in 1998. The movie starred Awie and was well-received. That film's success allowed Astro Shaw to expand its film production efforts and since 2001, Astro Shaw has released over 80 films. In 2010, Astro Shaw produced its first Chinese language film Woohoo. Since, Astro Shaw has release 5 more Chinese language films including The Journey.

In 2014, Maindhan became Astro Shaw's first Tamil-language Malaysian film. The film had a limited release on 9 August 2014 in Malaysia, Singapore, and Tamil Nadu. It emerged as the highest grossing locally produced Tamil film of all time before being beaten by Vedigundu Pasangge in 2018 which was co-produced by Astro Shaw.

Box office

From 2010 to 2013, top grossing Malaysian movies only averaged around RM8 million in the local box office. Astro Shaw defied all odds and raised the benchmark for local films in 2014, breaking the RM15 million mark with The Journey (RM17.28 million). The Journey was the first Chinese language film to top the local box office for its respective release year, a feat no other production company had been able to achieve.[1] Their film Hantu Kak Limah, which earned RM36.6 million, became the first local film to surpass RM30 million gross box office (GBO).[2] Polis Evo 3 become Astro Shaw's most successful film when it collected RM54 million in 11 weeks.[3]

Accolades

Astro Shaw produced its first award-winning film KL Menjerit in 2003. The film won in 8 categories for the 16th Malaysia Film Festival including Best Film and 2 categories during the TV3 Screen Awards.

Following from the success of KL Menjerit, Astro Shaw has gone on to win over 170 awards from local and foreign film festivals.The Journey won best film in the KL Film Critics Awards and Best Non-Malay Language Local Film and the special Jury Award at the 2014 Malaysia Film Festival. The Journey and Ola Bola were selected to compete in the Far East Film Festival.

Foreign Film Investments

The White Girl (2017), a Hong-Kong film co-directed by Christopher Doyle and Jenny Suen and Astro Shaw's first foray into North Asian films, competed at the 2017 London Film Festival.

Astro Shaw's film The Garden of Evening Mists was nominated in 9 categories for the 56th Golden Horse Awards and won for best Makeup & Costume Design.

In 2022, Astro Shaw invested in 5 Indonesian films: Ben & Jody, Keluarga Cemara 2, Stealing Raden Saleh,[4] Jagat Arwah and Qodrat.

Business Expansion

Astro Shaw has since ventured beyond film production and into film distribution and marketing. KL Special Force, directed by Syafiq Yusof, and the 2019 children's film BoBoiBoy Movie 2 were distributed and marketed by Astro Shaw.

In 2022, Astro Shaw collaborated with Visinema Pictures from Indonesia for expanding the production of films together, producing 4 films in the same year.[5]

The studio produced, distributed, and marketed the 2022 film Mechamato Movie, which became the most successful box office Malaysian animation film with the collection of RM35.88 million.[6] They also became the main producer of the children's film Didi & Friends The Movie together with Warnakala Studios and Digital Durian.[7]

Astro Shaw become one of the producers for one of the most expensive Malaysian film, MALBATT: Misi Bakara together with Berjaya Pictures, ACT 2 Pictures, Fast Bikes, Aurum Investments Limited and Golden Screen Cinemas directed by Adrian Teh with the budget cost of RM20 million.[8]

On December 3, 2025, Astro Shaw entering an partnership with Double Vision and Philippine ABS-CBN's studios division to co-produce three drama television series, including the remake of 2008 action drama series Kahit Isang Saglit which had starred Jericho Rosales and Carmen Soo.[9][10]

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