Singapore’s Mokster Films is set to launch its first sales title, Eakasit Thairaat’s creature horror Halabala,at the upcoming AFM.
Starring ‘Ter’ Chantavit Dhanasevi and produced by BrandThink Cinema, the Thai-language horror follows a police officer who is exiled to a remote post deep in the Hala Bala rainforest. When a notorious criminal escapes from prison, he and an armed squad, along with a psychic medium, delve deeper into the woods to hunt the fugitive, despite ominous warnings to stay away.
Principal photography has started in Hala Bala, a rainforest and wildlife sanctuary situated in southern Thailand on the border with Malaysia.
Starring ‘Ter’ Chantavit Dhanasevi and produced by BrandThink Cinema, the Thai-language horror follows a police officer who is exiled to a remote post deep in the Hala Bala rainforest. When a notorious criminal escapes from prison, he and an armed squad, along with a psychic medium, delve deeper into the woods to hunt the fugitive, despite ominous warnings to stay away.
Principal photography has started in Hala Bala, a rainforest and wildlife sanctuary situated in southern Thailand on the border with Malaysia.
- 10/28/2024
- ScreenDaily
Adapted from Alexey Korenev's 1990 Soviet comedy film “A Trap for Lonely Man” and French playwright Robert Thomas' 1960 play “Trap for a Lonely Man” (Piege Pour un Homme Seul), “Lost in the Stars” is a truly delirious title which implements a story filled with twists in a visually impressive package. The film premiered at the Hainan International Film Festival on 25 December 2022 and released theatrically in China on 22 June 2023 to commercial success, amassing more than $485 million internationally.
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He Fei and his wife Li Muzi are celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage at an island resort in Barlandia, a fictional Southeast Asian country that appears to have Malay and Thai as their official languages. However, at some point, Li Muzi disappears, and this is where the movie actually begins, with He Fei in the local police precinct trying to convince...
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He Fei and his wife Li Muzi are celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage at an island resort in Barlandia, a fictional Southeast Asian country that appears to have Malay and Thai as their official languages. However, at some point, Li Muzi disappears, and this is where the movie actually begins, with He Fei in the local police precinct trying to convince...
- 5/5/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
A theatrical release is planned for May 2024.
Time travel adventure Taklee Genesis will be distributed by Warner Bros in Thailand, making it the first Thai film handled by the Hollywood studio in the country.
Set for release on May 1 in Thailand, the title refers to a warp-speed teleporter left behind from the Cold War. A US military officer takes on a secret mission to investigate the matter but gets stuck in another time warp. The film spans different time periods, from the pre-historic Ban Chiang, now a Unesco world heritage site, to 100 years in the future.
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Time travel adventure Taklee Genesis will be distributed by Warner Bros in Thailand, making it the first Thai film handled by the Hollywood studio in the country.
Set for release on May 1 in Thailand, the title refers to a warp-speed teleporter left behind from the Cold War. A US military officer takes on a secret mission to investigate the matter but gets stuck in another time warp. The film spans different time periods, from the pre-historic Ban Chiang, now a Unesco world heritage site, to 100 years in the future.
”Taklee Genesis is a...
- 10/6/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sasha Luss (Anna), Alex Roe (Forever My Girl), Adam Lazarre White (The Old Way), and Thai music artist and actor Noi Pru (13 Beloved) are joining cast in feature Sic, which is filming in Thailand.
As we previously revealed, the film marks the feature directorial debut of The Fighter and The Finest Hours screenwriter Paul Tamasy who also penned the script.
Leading cast are actress and singer Victoria Justice (The Tutor), model and actress Devon Ross (Irma Vep), Taylor John Smith (Where The Crawdads Sing), and Dermot Mulroney (Scream VI)
The film follows a group of roommates in a US city who accidentally kill an innocent man, “leading them down a dangerous path of deception and cover-up”.
Tamasy is re-teaming with his producing partner Dorothy Aufiero, with whom worked on The Fighter, Patriots Day, and the The Finest Hours. Also producing are Wych Kaos, Scott Clayton, Jordan Gertner, and Gary Hirsh,...
As we previously revealed, the film marks the feature directorial debut of The Fighter and The Finest Hours screenwriter Paul Tamasy who also penned the script.
Leading cast are actress and singer Victoria Justice (The Tutor), model and actress Devon Ross (Irma Vep), Taylor John Smith (Where The Crawdads Sing), and Dermot Mulroney (Scream VI)
The film follows a group of roommates in a US city who accidentally kill an innocent man, “leading them down a dangerous path of deception and cover-up”.
Tamasy is re-teaming with his producing partner Dorothy Aufiero, with whom worked on The Fighter, Patriots Day, and the The Finest Hours. Also producing are Wych Kaos, Scott Clayton, Jordan Gertner, and Gary Hirsh,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Based on a one-shot comic titled “13th Quiz Show” by Eakasit Thairaat, “13: Game of Death” was a huge success, both in Thailand and internationally, winning a number of awards from festivals all over the world, and eventually having a remake in Hollywood, titled “13 Sins.”
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The film tells the tale of Phuchit Puengnathong, a music instrument salesman, who has the worst day of his life. During a visit to a potential client, he discovers that a colleague has already closed the deal behind his back, and upon his return to his car, he finds out that the police has seized it. Furthermore, when he arrives at his office, his boss calls him and forces him to sign his resignation in order to receive a letter of recommendation. Subsequently, his mother calls him and asks for money for his sister.
Moreover, Phuchit has overcharged his credit cards,...
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The film tells the tale of Phuchit Puengnathong, a music instrument salesman, who has the worst day of his life. During a visit to a potential client, he discovers that a colleague has already closed the deal behind his back, and upon his return to his car, he finds out that the police has seized it. Furthermore, when he arrives at his office, his boss calls him and forces him to sign his resignation in order to receive a letter of recommendation. Subsequently, his mother calls him and asks for money for his sister.
Moreover, Phuchit has overcharged his credit cards,...
- 10/28/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The trend to remake, reboot or re-whatever film favorites from the past continues with our latest round-up of in-development projects that were recently added and/or updated on IMDbPro. Here are a few that caught our attention this week:
Point Break – Alcon Entertainment and Salt scribe Kurt Wimmer will update the original '90s surfer flick directed by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow to include many more extreme sports, and we can only hope for a Keanu Reeves/Gary Busey cameo.
Beetlejuice 2 – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter writer Seth Grahame-Smith is teaming up with David Katzenberg to script a pair of projects for Warner Bros.—one of which is strongly considered to be this follow-up/reboot to Tim Burton's 1988 ghost-with-the-most comedy.
Untitled 'Le Mac' Remake – Based on the French comedy Le Mac, Hangover co-star Ed Helms headlines this comedy about a kidnapped banker who's forced to go undercover as a pimped-out gangster.
Highlander – There can be only one-- except when it comes to popular remakes. Such is the case with this fantasy favorite now that 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo signed on to direct the latest version from Summit Entertainment.
13 – The Last Exorcist director Daniel Stamm is on board to direct this remake of the Thai horror film 13: Game of Death, which centers on a guy caught up in a cruel game of challenges for cash.
Point Break – Alcon Entertainment and Salt scribe Kurt Wimmer will update the original '90s surfer flick directed by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow to include many more extreme sports, and we can only hope for a Keanu Reeves/Gary Busey cameo.
Beetlejuice 2 – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter writer Seth Grahame-Smith is teaming up with David Katzenberg to script a pair of projects for Warner Bros.—one of which is strongly considered to be this follow-up/reboot to Tim Burton's 1988 ghost-with-the-most comedy.
Untitled 'Le Mac' Remake – Based on the French comedy Le Mac, Hangover co-star Ed Helms headlines this comedy about a kidnapped banker who's forced to go undercover as a pimped-out gangster.
Highlander – There can be only one-- except when it comes to popular remakes. Such is the case with this fantasy favorite now that 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo signed on to direct the latest version from Summit Entertainment.
13 – The Last Exorcist director Daniel Stamm is on board to direct this remake of the Thai horror film 13: Game of Death, which centers on a guy caught up in a cruel game of challenges for cash.
- 9/16/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
13
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
BUCHEON, South Korea -- "13" (13 Game Sayawng) starts off in a nondescript urban setting in Bangkok and soon veers into uncanny and sinister terrain. One of those accomplished suspense thrillers that mount the tension stage by stage without running out of steam at the end, it is also an unyieldingly cynical exploration of the human heart of darkness with an oedipal climax that makes it a field-day for Freudians.
Adapted from a popular Thai manga titled The 13th Quiz Show by Eakasit Thairaat, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Matthew Chookiet Sakveerakul, "13" shone at the domestic boxoffice last year, even when the Thai film market is now saturated with horror films. The winner of Pifan's competition feature section, the film should gain more overseas festival invitations and foreign distribution.
Chit is a music company employee who has lost his girlfriend, car and job. He gets a call enticing him to play a reality game show that offers a prize of 100 million baht (about $33.4 million) on completion of 13 challenges. As the tasks get more bizarre and reprobate, Chit's integrity also deteriorates. The game gradually turns into an excuse to vent his pent-up frustrations rather than an expedient means to a financial end.
In a white collar shirt-and-tie that gets symbolically soiled along the way, Krissada Sukosol Clapp (Bangkok Loco) invests the character of Chit with just the right combination of trepidation, neurosis and animalism. Like Michael Douglas' laid-off defense workman in Schumacher's Falling Down, his Average Joe image toys with the audience's natural instinct to root for the underdog, and herein lies the film's strength -- its moral ambiguity. Through flashbacks, we learn that the challenges mirror traumatic incidents in Chit's childhood, and some of his targets seem to deserve what they get. But does that justify Chit's acts?
The first half of the film is very effective in plunging the audience into an unsettling atmosphere that simulates the protagonist's disorientation. The locations are utterly mundane, like a street market, a Chinese restaurant, a bus stop or an office, but they are dotted with numerological signs and clues, and engage the audience in an interactive riddle like Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers or The Da Vinci Code.
The tone wavers between the comic and grotesque, between reality and illusion. Head-spinning shifts between numerous indoor and outdoor locations expose a buzzing city plugged into interactive technology, but severed from interpersonal ties and devoid of compassion. The second half is more predictable as the film descends into a gore fest that takes it into a less plausible, supernatural realm. Nevertheless, the ending still packs a powerful punch as fleeting characters suddenly re-emerge as agents of destiny. Screenplay, editing and action sequences are all impressive for a 25-year-old director.
13
Sahamongkol Film International Co. Ltd/Baa-Ram-Ewe
Credits:
Director-writer-editor: Matthew Chookiet Sakveerakul
Writers: Matthew Chookiet Sakveerakul, Eakasit Thairaat
Based on the manga by: Eakasit Thairaat
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Executive producers: Prachya Pinkaew, Sukanya Yongsithapat
Director of photography: Chitti Urnorakanku
Music: Kitti Kuremanee
Cast:
Chit: Krissada Sukosol Clapp
Tong: Achita Wuthinounsurasit
Surachai: Sarunyu Wongkrachang
Maew: Nattapong Arunnate
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BUCHEON, South Korea -- "13" (13 Game Sayawng) starts off in a nondescript urban setting in Bangkok and soon veers into uncanny and sinister terrain. One of those accomplished suspense thrillers that mount the tension stage by stage without running out of steam at the end, it is also an unyieldingly cynical exploration of the human heart of darkness with an oedipal climax that makes it a field-day for Freudians.
Adapted from a popular Thai manga titled The 13th Quiz Show by Eakasit Thairaat, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Matthew Chookiet Sakveerakul, "13" shone at the domestic boxoffice last year, even when the Thai film market is now saturated with horror films. The winner of Pifan's competition feature section, the film should gain more overseas festival invitations and foreign distribution.
Chit is a music company employee who has lost his girlfriend, car and job. He gets a call enticing him to play a reality game show that offers a prize of 100 million baht (about $33.4 million) on completion of 13 challenges. As the tasks get more bizarre and reprobate, Chit's integrity also deteriorates. The game gradually turns into an excuse to vent his pent-up frustrations rather than an expedient means to a financial end.
In a white collar shirt-and-tie that gets symbolically soiled along the way, Krissada Sukosol Clapp (Bangkok Loco) invests the character of Chit with just the right combination of trepidation, neurosis and animalism. Like Michael Douglas' laid-off defense workman in Schumacher's Falling Down, his Average Joe image toys with the audience's natural instinct to root for the underdog, and herein lies the film's strength -- its moral ambiguity. Through flashbacks, we learn that the challenges mirror traumatic incidents in Chit's childhood, and some of his targets seem to deserve what they get. But does that justify Chit's acts?
The first half of the film is very effective in plunging the audience into an unsettling atmosphere that simulates the protagonist's disorientation. The locations are utterly mundane, like a street market, a Chinese restaurant, a bus stop or an office, but they are dotted with numerological signs and clues, and engage the audience in an interactive riddle like Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers or The Da Vinci Code.
The tone wavers between the comic and grotesque, between reality and illusion. Head-spinning shifts between numerous indoor and outdoor locations expose a buzzing city plugged into interactive technology, but severed from interpersonal ties and devoid of compassion. The second half is more predictable as the film descends into a gore fest that takes it into a less plausible, supernatural realm. Nevertheless, the ending still packs a powerful punch as fleeting characters suddenly re-emerge as agents of destiny. Screenplay, editing and action sequences are all impressive for a 25-year-old director.
13
Sahamongkol Film International Co. Ltd/Baa-Ram-Ewe
Credits:
Director-writer-editor: Matthew Chookiet Sakveerakul
Writers: Matthew Chookiet Sakveerakul, Eakasit Thairaat
Based on the manga by: Eakasit Thairaat
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Executive producers: Prachya Pinkaew, Sukanya Yongsithapat
Director of photography: Chitti Urnorakanku
Music: Kitti Kuremanee
Cast:
Chit: Krissada Sukosol Clapp
Tong: Achita Wuthinounsurasit
Surachai: Sarunyu Wongkrachang
Maew: Nattapong Arunnate
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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