{"id":2146336,"date":"2025-11-10T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2146336"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:46:12","slug":"toonz-media-group-serves-up-animated-horror-a-banquet-for-hungry-ghosts-afm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/toonz-media-group-serves-up-animated-horror-a-banquet-for-hungry-ghosts-afm\/","title":{"rendered":"Toonz Media Group Serves Up Animated Horror \u2018A Banquet For Hungry Ghosts\u2019 \u2013 AFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Exclusive: India\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0183232\/\">Toonz Media Group<\/a> has boarded A Banquet For the Hungry Ghosts, an animated horror anthology film.<\/p>\n<p>At <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847756\/\">AFM<\/a>, the film will be introduced for presales as a key pillar of Thiruvananthapuram-based <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1064153\/\">Toonz<\/a>\u2019s international slate.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-minute pic is based on a book from Chinese-American author and chef <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14944592\/\">Ying Chang Compestine<\/a>, and produced by Singapore\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0539193\/\">Robot Playground Media<\/a>, whose co-founder, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10673508\/\">Ervin Han<\/a>, is helming the project.<\/p>\n<p>He will lead a team of animators from Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan, who are uniting under the Robot Playground studio banner.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows four standalone, but interlinked tales, each inspired by an iconic Chinese dish and tied together by a spectral chef, who presides over a mysterious, otherwordly restaurant. Producers say it blends \u201cthe macabre, the playful and the poetic\u201d to deliver \u201ca chilling cinematic experience that explores themes of human frailty and ancestral guilt and greed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Banquet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: India\u2019s Toonz Media Group has boarded A Banquet For the Hungry Ghosts, an animated horror anthology film. At AFM, the film will be introduced for presales as a key pillar of Thiruvananthapuram-based Toonz\u2019s international slate. The 90-minute pic is based on a book from Chinese-American author and chef Ying Chang Compestine, and produced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2146336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Toonz-Media-Group-Serves-Up-Animated-Horror-\u2018A-Banquet-For.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146338,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146336\/revisions\/2146338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}