Raintree Pictures

Mediacorp Raintree Pictures ({{zh|t=星霖電影|s=星霖电影|p=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.{{Cite news |last=Tong |first=Kelvin |date=8 August 1998 |title=Got a story? Climb on-board Raintree |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19980808-1.2.100.3.3 |access-date=2 February 2024 |work=The Straits Times |pages=3 |via=NewspaperSG}} Its first chief executive officer, Daniel Yun, was vice president of Productions 5 at TCS, Channel 5's production unit.

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.