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Movie Business
T Moment
In 2016, the Company opened T Moment, a new production house under the management of Mr. Visute Poolvoralaks, a well-known and resourceful person in movie business. After he decided to find a new career path, he preferred to work and produce high-quality films for Mono Group. Currently, there is a number of movie studios in Thailand ranged from large to small ones. To survive amid this relatively tough competition, businesses have to develop its quality, marketing strategies, and capital as the film production needs high investment. In addition, the market share has continuously drop as audiences usually prefer the international films as well as piracy problem through online downloading and the broadcast via social media, which is easy and can be done within shorter time. Thai film producers must adjust themselves by reducing the number of movie, the production costs or expand into TV program or series production to support free TV channels. However, the Company operates full range of film business and copyright management from upstream to downstream, with various distributing channels, namely cinema, online media and TV.
Mono Film
Domestic market has shown high demand on international business. Movie business is also one of the main businesses for Mono Group. Mono Film is responsible for purchasing the copyright movie to show in the cinemas and to broadcast via MONO29, with major movie importers and TV channel companies as rivals. The Company’s full range of content management led to its bargaining power, the ability to purchase a big lot of contents with copyrights, and partnering with leading movie studios and independent studios at home and abroad. The Company can select quality films from America, Europe, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea as well as award-winning films from various film festivals.
Mono Maxxx
The Company offered online movie service through Monomaxxx.com as another channel that supports the use of movie with copyrights. Despite copyrighted and illegal films via online market, the Company can continue to expand its online customer base, thanks to the segmentation of contents, market penetration to target audiences, and system development which offers high quality picture on easy-to-use platform and responsive design to various devices. To this end, the Company partnered with mobile operators, smart TV manufacturers, financial institutions, retail businesses, and others. Meanwhile, Mono Group’s contents features good combination of Hollywood and Asian films as well as MONO drama series.
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