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Kaohsiung National Stadium operators confirmed a five-night Mandopop residency in late November after acoustics tests passed, capping ticket sales at 45,000 per show for the dome’s first major concert run since opening concerts earlier in the year.
Kaohsiung Dome booked a five-night arena pop residency for late November, the venue’s first multi-date run since opening concerts tested crowd flows last spring.
The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall hosted a sold-out heritage choir concert Saturday night after Double Ten fireworks drew crowds along Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard.
Heart of the Beast ranked second on Taipei's Oct. 2–4 weekend box-office chart with about NT$1.7 million, holding momentum in its second week as horror and re-release titles split multiplex screens.
The 115th National Day concert at Banqiao Stadium packs 9,000 free seats with Maki Ohguro, Enno Cheng, and regional acts on a bill themed “The World’s Stage, Gathering in Taiwan.”
Sony’s Anne Hathaway thriller Sinners opens on Taiwan’s National Day holiday weekend as Resident Evil: Night of the Outbreak crosses NT$110 million in local ticket sales.
The Golden Melody Awards showcase opened with restored 1990s shorts filmed along Hsinchu's coastal rail line, part of a weeklong program in Taipei.
Golden Horse Film Festival organizers locked an October 31 premiere slate as nominees finished dubbing and accessibility mixes for the Taipei opening week.
Ticket Plus closed its lottery for Yuki Kajiura’s Oct. 31 Taipei International Convention Center concert after demand exhausted the Asia tour’s Taiwan allocation in the September registration window.
Distributor-organized sync screenings of the Linkin Park concert film UNSHATTER packed Showtimes theaters in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung with SCREENX and 4DX formats after a nationwide theatrical rollout.
Formosa Vinyl reissued a 1980s Mandopop box set for Record Store Day Taiwan on Saturday, pressing 3,000 copies with restored liner notes from studio tapes archivists digitized in Taipei.
The horror sequel Zong Xie 4 held theater reunions with cast members from earlier films after domestic ticket sales passed NT$77 million following the Mid-Autumn holiday.
Sony’s Resident Evil Requiem has grossed more than NT$90 million in Taiwan after two weeks at number one, becoming the top domestic performer in the franchise.
Domestic comedy Pa Pa Go surpassed NT$85.7 million in nationwide gross after more than 100 thank-you screenings led by star Wang Shih-hsien.
Taiwan Television added a weeknight Asian Games recap block after pitcher Lin Yu-min’s eight-inning shutout clinched baseball bronze in Nagoya, pairing highlights with Mandarin studio analysis.
Penghu's wind-and-light festival is running through the holiday weekend, and Taitung's Moonlight Sea concert on Sept. 28 is the last date on a publicly funded event chain that pushed Chiayi, Pingtung and Tainan occupancy above 80 percent.
Taipei Astronomical Museum's Pegasus fulldome screening sold out for a second holiday night, testing whether a city-run planetarium can turn Mid-Autumn into a science audience.
Golden Horse Film Festival nominees landed CatchPlay day-and-date streaming windows in October so voters and audiences can watch contention titles before November's Taipei ceremony without relying on festival-only screenings.
Golden Horse nomination lists added day-and-date Taiwan streaming premieres from MyVideo and CatchPlay after jurors debated whether platform-first releases count as theatrical qualifying runs.