Mediacorp Raintree Pictures (simplified Chinese: 星霖电影; traditional Chinese: 星霖電影; pinyin: Xīnglín Diànyǐng) was a film production company based in Singapore. The company, a division of Mediacorp Group, was established on 1 August 1998. It financed The Truth About Jane and Sam, produced by Hong Kong's Film Unlimited and directed by Derek Yee. This film garnered a Best New Performer nomination at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards for its lead actress, Fann Wong from Singapore.

The company closed down in 2012.

History

Incorporated on 22 July and established on 1 August 1998, Raintree Pictures was Television Corporation of Singapore's (TCS) subsidiary to produce films.^[1] Its first chief executive officer, Daniel Yun, was Productions 5 at TCS.^[1]

Since then, Raintree Pictures has co-produced many films with other countries, including The Eye, The Eye 2 and Infernal Affairs II. Many of its films have won awards, such as the Golden Horse Awards from Taiwan, where child actress Megan Zheng won the Best Newcomer Award for her performance in Homerun. In 1998, the Singapore movie industry produces the first highly successful movie Money No Enough, where the film received mixed reviews from critics, but earned over S$5.8 million and was the all-time highest-grossing Singaporean film until 2012. This results its success which helped revive the Singaporean film industry and paved the way of future Singaporean local movies. In 2002, Singaporean satirical film I Not Stupid held the top position at the weekend box office chart in Singapore. It was later released in other countries such as Malaysia, Hong Kong and China.

Films

1. 2007 The Tattooist
2. 2007 The Home Song Stories
3. 2007 881
4. 2007 Protégé (Co-produced with Artforce International)
5. 2007 One Last Dance (茶舞)
6. 2006 I Not Stupid Too
7. 2005 The Maid
8. 2005 I Do, I Do
9. 2004 The Best Bet
10. 2004 The Eye 2 (Co-produced with Applause Pictures)
11. 2003 Infernal Affairs II (Co-produced with Media Asia)
12. 2003 Turn Left, Turn Right (Co-produced with Warner Bros. Asia)
13. 2003 Homerun
14. 2002 The Eye (Co-produced with Applause Pictures) (见鬼)
15. 2002 I Not Stupid
16. 2001 One Leg Kicking
17. 2001 The Tree
18. 2000 Chicken Rice War
19. 2000 2000 AD (Co-produced with Millenium Films for United States)
20. 1999 The Truth About Jane and Sam (Co-produced with Film Unlimited)
21. 11 February 1999 Liang Po Po: The Movie