South Korea’s Redice Entertainment, creator of hit webtoon Solo Leveling, has invested in Thai horror The Cursed Land as the company moves to extend activities outside its home market.
Redice Entertainment CEO Woogy Han and Neramitnung Film CEO Kanogwan Watchara signed an investment agreement in Bangkok on Thursday (March 7). It marks the first major outside investment in a Neramitnung Film production, which has previously fully financed its own titles.
“We see immense potential in Thai films, particularly within the horror genre,” said Han. “Genre films like The Cursed Land have a widespread appeal worldwide, presenting us with significant opportunities for growth.
Redice Entertainment CEO Woogy Han and Neramitnung Film CEO Kanogwan Watchara signed an investment agreement in Bangkok on Thursday (March 7). It marks the first major outside investment in a Neramitnung Film production, which has previously fully financed its own titles.
“We see immense potential in Thai films, particularly within the horror genre,” said Han. “Genre films like The Cursed Land have a widespread appeal worldwide, presenting us with significant opportunities for growth.
- 3/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Set in the early 2000s, Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee's “The Cursed Land” distills Thailand's political and ethnic tensions into a thrilling, time-hopping horror film. In locating their film within the vernacular beliefs of a Muslim community, the two directors expand the horizons of Thai horror cinema, traditionally rooted in Buddhist cosmology to instead capture Thailand's historical specters up in a bottle while also indulging in all the conventional pleasures and horrors of the haunted house genre effort which is now screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The Cursed Land Screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
After the death of his wife, plant worker Mit (Ananda Everingham) moves with his teenage daughter May (Jennis Oprasert) to a derelict mansion in a Muslim-majority suburb of Bangkok. A thorough skeptic, Mit gets rid of the talismans in the house, defying the warnings of locals Heem (Bront Palarae) and Zainab (Seeda...
The Cursed Land Screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
After the death of his wife, plant worker Mit (Ananda Everingham) moves with his teenage daughter May (Jennis Oprasert) to a derelict mansion in a Muslim-majority suburb of Bangkok. A thorough skeptic, Mit gets rid of the talismans in the house, defying the warnings of locals Heem (Bront Palarae) and Zainab (Seeda...
- 2/6/2024
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
On the occasion of the Cursed Land screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Panu Aree talks to Panos Kotzathanasis about the historical context behind the film, combining Buddhism and Islam, the way the production worked for the movie, working with Jennis Oprasert and the rest of the cast, the situation with the Thai movie industry at the moment, and other topics.
https://youtu.be/cFP88M-vgYE...
https://youtu.be/cFP88M-vgYE...
- 2/2/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
In the modern age, one of the more impactful and topical issues found in the consciousness of pop culture is self-identity and what a person's identity means to them. Being lost in a malaise of social media, online ads, and a culture concerned with providing a marketable identity for easy branding, it's possible for this factor to be a crippling issue for youths fighting to keep themselves afloat while they attempt to navigate the world around them. Thai directors Rasiguet Sookkarn and Kongdej Jaturanrasmee have decided to explore this concept in their new film “Faces of Anne,” having its North American premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival.
Faces of Anne is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Check also this interview Interview with Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Jennis Oprasert and Soros Sukhum: The Question Is, “Can We Own Our Life Completely?”
Overall, “Faces of Anne” is a solid enough genre effort.
Faces of Anne is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Check also this interview Interview with Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Jennis Oprasert and Soros Sukhum: The Question Is, “Can We Own Our Life Completely?”
Overall, “Faces of Anne” is a solid enough genre effort.
- 7/29/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee make their directorial fiction feature debut on The Cursed Land, a Thai movie that’s hitting the Cannes market this week.
Screen Daily reports, “WME Independent is handling international sales at Cannes.”
“The film follows a widower and his daughter who travel to Thailand’s deep south to seek help from a Muslim witch doctor after unleashing a djinn in a rundown house.”
Ananda Everingham (Shutter), Bront Palarae (Satan’s Slaves: Communion) and Jennis Oprasert (Where We Belong) star in The Cursed Land.
Screen Daily details, “Shooting wrapped last week on the film, which was mostly shot in Narathiwat province and the adjacent rainforest, Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary.”
The post ‘The Cursed Land’ – Thai Horror Movie Consults a Witch Doctor After Unleashing a Djinn appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Screen Daily reports, “WME Independent is handling international sales at Cannes.”
“The film follows a widower and his daughter who travel to Thailand’s deep south to seek help from a Muslim witch doctor after unleashing a djinn in a rundown house.”
Ananda Everingham (Shutter), Bront Palarae (Satan’s Slaves: Communion) and Jennis Oprasert (Where We Belong) star in The Cursed Land.
Screen Daily details, “Shooting wrapped last week on the film, which was mostly shot in Narathiwat province and the adjacent rainforest, Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary.”
The post ‘The Cursed Land’ – Thai Horror Movie Consults a Witch Doctor After Unleashing a Djinn appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 5/17/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
WME Independent is handling international sales on the film at Cannes.
Ananda Everingham, Bront Palarae and Jennis Oprasert have been revealed as the cast of Thai horror The Cursed Land, on which WME Independent is handling international sales at Cannes.
Written and directed by Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee as their directorial fiction feature debut, the film follows a widower and his daughter who travel to Thailand’s deep south to seek help from a Muslim witch doctor after unleashing a djinn in a rundown house. A first look at Ananda in the film can be seen above.
Ananda is...
Ananda Everingham, Bront Palarae and Jennis Oprasert have been revealed as the cast of Thai horror The Cursed Land, on which WME Independent is handling international sales at Cannes.
Written and directed by Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee as their directorial fiction feature debut, the film follows a widower and his daughter who travel to Thailand’s deep south to seek help from a Muslim witch doctor after unleashing a djinn in a rundown house. A first look at Ananda in the film can be seen above.
Ananda is...
- 5/17/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Recently premiering in Locarno, Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan’s debut feature “Arnold is a Model Student” is a very interesting narrative amalgam, as it combines his own experiences from attending school (there is even a scene with a same named student repeating the multiplication element as a punishment inside a teacher’s office) with the recent Bad Student movement, and an approach that moves more towards the comedy/satire despite the dramatic basis of the story.
“Arnold is a Model Student“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a...
“Arnold is a Model Student“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a...
- 11/18/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The West has a tendency to lump horror from East and Southeast Asia into one basic but limiting category. Because of this, someone might write off an entire continent’s contributions to the genre based solely on a few popular movies with similar plots and executions. However, Eric Khoo’s series Folklore highlights — not to mention celebrates — the differences that make each episode’s depicted culture so unique. That’s not to say there isn’t an overall theme here. This anthology show emphasizes a commonality among its stories; every tale of terror draws from the supernatural. More specifically, each self-contained episode is based on a local custom, myth or superstition. And as the second season demonstrates with both flair and potency, defying the past and ignoring tradition has serious consequences.
Like other anthology series, there is no specific order when watching the episodes. Skipping around is surely an option,...
Like other anthology series, there is no specific order when watching the episodes. Skipping around is surely an option,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Recently premiering in Locarno, Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan’s debut feature “Arnold is a Model Student” is a very interesting narrative amalgam, as it combines his own experiences from attending school (there is even a scene with a same named student repeating the multiplication element as a punishment inside a teacher’s office) with the recent Bad Student movement, and an approach that moves more towards the comedy/satire despite the dramatic basis of the story.
“Arnold is a Perfect Student” screened in Locarno Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a star does not only extend to the faculty,...
“Arnold is a Perfect Student” screened in Locarno Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a star does not only extend to the faculty,...
- 9/4/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The dead are rising once again. “All of Us Are Dead,” the popular Korean zombie series, has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix.
The zombie horror series is one of the streamer’s top ten non-English-language shows of all time and its second most successful Korean-produced show, after last year’s “Squid Game.”
The news was announced as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week. The event is intended to showcase new and returning series, in addition to positioning Netflix as the home of Asian horror and sci-fi genre content. The company said that from 2020 to 2021, viewing of sci-fi and horror on Netflix in the Asia-Pacific region has grown 30 and 20, respectively.
The Geeked Week video featured the four main actors of the series — Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun and Lomon — thanking fans for their support of the show and confirming that Season 2 is on the way.
Based on the Korean...
The zombie horror series is one of the streamer’s top ten non-English-language shows of all time and its second most successful Korean-produced show, after last year’s “Squid Game.”
The news was announced as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week. The event is intended to showcase new and returning series, in addition to positioning Netflix as the home of Asian horror and sci-fi genre content. The company said that from 2020 to 2021, viewing of sci-fi and horror on Netflix in the Asia-Pacific region has grown 30 and 20, respectively.
The Geeked Week video featured the four main actors of the series — Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun and Lomon — thanking fans for their support of the show and confirming that Season 2 is on the way.
Based on the Korean...
- 6/6/2022
- by Wilson Chapman and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Eight young stars accepted the “Asian Stars: Up Next” award on Tuesday intended to recognize and promote Asian on-screen talent who have established themselves in their home market but have the potential to cross borders onto the global stage. The awards are issued by the International Film Festival & Awards Macao and Variety, and were presented on-stage at the festival’s closing ceremony.
This year’s honorees included Korea’s Lim Yoona, the singer-actress aka Yoona who shot to stardom in the K-pop group Girls’ Generation; Japan’s Ryota Katayose, singer-actor from J-pop boy band Generations from Exile Tribe; Indian actress Bhumi Pednekar; actress Bea Alonzo of the Philippines; Indonesian actress Asmara Abigail; Thailand’s Praewa Suthampong and Jennis Oprasert, both members of the Thai girl group BNK48, a sister group of the Japanese group AKB48; and Vietnamese actor Lien Binh Phat.
Last year, honorees included Xana Tang (New Zealand), Ann...
This year’s honorees included Korea’s Lim Yoona, the singer-actress aka Yoona who shot to stardom in the K-pop group Girls’ Generation; Japan’s Ryota Katayose, singer-actor from J-pop boy band Generations from Exile Tribe; Indian actress Bhumi Pednekar; actress Bea Alonzo of the Philippines; Indonesian actress Asmara Abigail; Thailand’s Praewa Suthampong and Jennis Oprasert, both members of the Thai girl group BNK48, a sister group of the Japanese group AKB48; and Vietnamese actor Lien Binh Phat.
Last year, honorees included Xana Tang (New Zealand), Ann...
- 12/11/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee completed film studies at King Mongkut Institute of Technology. A director and screenwriter, who worked also as a teacher, copywriter and restaurant owner. Appreciated for psychological sensibility and the ability to transfer ephemeral emotional states into the screen. His films were presented and awarded at numerous international festivals, In 2012 received the Grand Prix at Five Flavours for “P-047”.
Jennis Oprasert was born in 2000, singer and actress. She belongs to the supergroup of idols BNK48, she was in the first line-up of the band founded in 2017. At the age of eight she acted in the horror film “The 8th Day”, for which she was nominated for the Suphannahong National Film Awards. For her leading role in Kongdej Jaturanrasamee’s “Where We Belong” she received the Marie Claire Asia Award for emerging talent.
Soros Sukhum was born in Bangkok, graduate of film production at the Faculty of Communication Arts of the University of Rangsit.
Jennis Oprasert was born in 2000, singer and actress. She belongs to the supergroup of idols BNK48, she was in the first line-up of the band founded in 2017. At the age of eight she acted in the horror film “The 8th Day”, for which she was nominated for the Suphannahong National Film Awards. For her leading role in Kongdej Jaturanrasamee’s “Where We Belong” she received the Marie Claire Asia Award for emerging talent.
Soros Sukhum was born in Bangkok, graduate of film production at the Faculty of Communication Arts of the University of Rangsit.
- 11/24/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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