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Internationally, Pen-ek Ratanaruang is as well known as any contemporary director from Thailand. Since 1997, he has made six feature-length films. But while he has been prominently featured at festivals, his films have never broken out in Thailand.
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Fifteenth century Thai martial arts action film "Ong Bak 2" from actor-director Tony Jaa topped the local boxoffice in its long holiday opening weekend by grossing 70 million baht ($2.06 million).
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BANGKOK -- BEC World, operator of Thailand's second most popular television channel, said on Thursday higher advertising revenue should boost its net profit by 20% this year.
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BANGKOK -- Thai state media performed a balancing act Wednesday as anti-government protestors shut down the international airport at the height of the tourist season in a move to block the Prime Minister from returning home from overseas. The day ended with the army chief calling for new elections.
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SINGAPORE -- Thai director Ekachai Uekrongtham will helm a romantic comedy tentatively titled "The Wedding of the Year" backed by Singaporean movie producers MediaCorp. Raintree Pictures and Scorpio East Pictures.
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NEW YORK -- Technicolor said Wednesday that Paul Stambaugh has rejoined its Bangkok postproduction facility in his former role as managing director as a part of the laboratory's planned expansion.
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The federal government has added bribery charges to its growing investigation into the dealings of Film Festival Management executives Gerald and Patricia Green.
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BRUSSELS -- Asia is to hold its own region-wide version of the Eurovision Song Contest next year, with India and China amongst the 15 countries battling for the title, it was announced Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES -- The second edition of Thailand's Phuket Film Festival is set for June 4-11, with promotion activities getting under way with Thursday's launch of the fest's Web site.
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Nonzee Nimibutr's Thai action-fantasy film "Queens of Langkasuka" will open the eighth annual Bangkok International Film Festival on Sept. 23, organizers said Tuesday.
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BANGKOK -- A Thai court ordered the prime minister to quit on Tuesday for hosting TV cooking shows, but his party said it would re-elect him within the week and protesters vowed to keep up a campaign that has paralyzed the government.
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HONG KONG -- "Bangkok Dangerous" director Danny Pang said the Hollywood system is the perfect fit for him and his brother Oxide, twins collectively known as the Pang Brothers.
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BANGKOK -- Dozens of masked, anti-government protesters armed with knives, guns and golf clubs stormed a TV station and briefly shut it down Tuesday, while tens of thousands peacefully laid siege to government ministries.
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SINGAPORE -- Director Royston Tan’s latest film, the musical “12 LOTUS” will be in competition in the Southeast Asian film category at the 2008 Bangkok International Film Festival, the director said.
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TORONTO -- Thailand's "In the Shadow of the Naga" is expected to offend devout Buddhists, its director said of the film's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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BANGKOK -- Harvey Weinstein, John Cusack, Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat gathered here Saturday to celebrate "Shanghai," which will wrap Aug. 12. The film relocated to Thailand when it was barred from shooting in China this year.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- The sixth annual Bangkok International Film Festival in September will feature a lineup of 70, mostly made-in-Asia films, said organizers, who face a drastically slashed budget.
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BANGKOK -- "Chak De India" was the bigger winner Sunday night at the ninth annual International India Film Academy Awards, claiming the best picture prize, along with directing honors for helmer Shimit Amin and a best actor nod for Shah Rukh Khan.
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BANGKOK -- The ninth annual International Indian Film Academy awards, Bollywood's top film honors, kicked off a weekend of events Friday in Bangkok, with the world premiere of "Sarkar Raj," directed by Ram Gopal Varma.
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Bangkok correspondent Joel Gershon caught up with actor and producer Ananda Everingham on the eve of the June 6 release in Thailand of his "Good Morning, Luang Prabang," the first commercial film made in Laos in 33 years.
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LOS ANGELES -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan of "Supernatural" television fame has inked a deal to appear in the Weinstein Co.'s period piece "Shanghai" alongside John Cusack, Gong Li and Ken Watanabe, set to shoot in Thailand this summer.
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BANGKOK -- The sixth annual Bangkok International Film Festival will be held in September, its organizers, the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand, said Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Director Ekachai Uekrongtham will debut "The Coffin," a Thai-Hong Kong-Singapore co-production this month at Cannes' Marche du Film, the world's largest film market.
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Cerenzie-Peters Prods. has picked up remake rights to the Thai hit horror series "Art of the Devil," whose third installment debuted as the No. 1 movie in the Asian country.
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BANGKOK -- GMM Grammy, Thailand's largest music and entertainment firm, reported a better than expected 141% rise in 2007 net profit on Monday as higher income from films and concerts offset flat music sales.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's National Counter Corruption Commission will create a subcommittee to probe whether the former head of the Bangkok International Film Festival received nearly $2 million in kickbacks from 2003-06.
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