EXCLUSIVE: Vietnamese comedy drama Mr. Hero, produced by three Vietnamese production outfits and Fremantle’s Singapore-based Beach House Pictures, is set for a wide international rollout following its premiere yesterday at New York Asian Film Festival.
Directed by Vo Thach Thao (hit series The Apple Tree Blossoms) and produced by Timothy Linh Bui (Sister Sister), the film is being handled internationally by Vietnam’s Skyline Media, which is collaborating with Eastern Edge Films on an August 7 release in North America.
Beyond North America, Skyline has also secured theatrical releases for Mr. Hero in Australia and New Zealand through Infinity Entertainment, from July 23, while a further deal has been concluded with J Cineplex for a Myanmar theatrical release in the third quarter of 2026.
Produced by Vietnam’s Happy Canvas, HK Film and V Pictures, along with Singapore’s Beach House Pictures, the film was released in Vietnam in late April for the Reunification Day holidays.
Vietnam’s “box office king” Thai Hoa (Hijacked, Tunnel: Sun In The Dark) heads the cast of the film, which also stars Vo Tan Phat (Money Kisses), Hong Anh (Blood Moon Party), Le Thien (Goodbye Mother) and Doan The Vinh (Face Off 8: Embrace Of Light).
Inspired by the increasingly sensitive social issue of online charity fraud, the family drama follows a struggling taxi driver and single father who sets up a risky plan that turns him into a viral “street hero” in order to raise money for his critically ill daughter. However he discovers how quickly public sympathy can turn into outrage when the truth begins to emerge.
The film received its international premiere at the ongoing NYAFF as part of the festival’s Country in Focus: Vietnam section.
New Jersey-based Eastern Edge Films, founded by Jawahar Sharma, specializes in theatrical and non-theatrical distribution of Asian and Arabic-language films across North America. The company previously collaborated with Skyline on Vietnamese titles The Real Sister, The Ancestral Home and Leaving Mom.
