Stirring Thai Film ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ Has Won Over Both The Southeast Asian Box Office & The TikTok Generation

EXCLUSIVE: The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment reveals the inaugural class for its latest program, the CAPE Showrunners Incubator, powered by Starz #TakeTheLead.

Sunny Side of the Doc, the world’s biggest documentary-focused marketplace in the world, wrapped its 35th edition Thursday, after gathering 2,100 participants over four days in La Rochelle, France.

Ryan Thomas, who played builder Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street for 16 years before leaving the soap in 2016, returned to his former work place in Manchester city centre last week. The 40 year old actor, who won the latest series of Dancing on Ice at the beginning of this year, returned to the Old Granada Studios in the Castlefield area of Manchester for a friend’s 70th birthday, unaware beforehand that the party venue was located on the site where Coronation Street used to be filmed.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “Baby,” which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week where it won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for joint acting lead Ricardo Teodoro, has closed further sales. Berlin-based sales agency M-Appeal have sold the distribution rights to Ama Films for Greece, Mezipatra z.s for Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Falcon for Indonesia.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The family drama “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” has become the highest-grossing Thai film of all time in The Philippines, distributor Westec Media claims. The company, which released the film, does not quantify the receipts or the record. But there is little doubt of the film’s hit status across Asia.

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Jason Kelce, 36, voiced his opinion on monarchies while discussing Father’s Day traditions in Thailand.“I’m out on honoring kings,” the former Philadelphia Eagles center said on the June 19 episode. “Listen, we’re Americans.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Caught by the Tides,” the contemporary Chinese epic film directed by Jia Zhangke, has been acquired for U.S. release by Sidehow and Janus Films. The film appeared in main competition in Cannes in May and is on one an extended look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao) over a period of 21 years.

Sideshow and Janus Films have bought U.S. rights for Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s epic drama Caught By The Tides, following its buzzy world premiere in competition at Cannes in May.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Scarlett Johansson confirmed to ComicBook.com that she is, in fact, headlining the next “Jurassic World” movie, which is being directed by “Rogue One” and “Godzilla” filmmaker Gareth Edwards from a script penned by David Koepp. The screenwriter is returning to the dinosaur franchise after having penned Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” (1993) and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997). “I am an enormous ‘Jurassic Park’ fan,” Johansson said.

Matilda Draper is not only pulling boys inside the Love Island villa this year.The latest bombshell is already turning heads inside the villa, as Omar Nyame and Sean Stone try to spark a romance with the beauty. But the recruitment consultant has also attracting attention from celebrities, from the like's of The Only Way Is Essex, before heading into the famous villa.The 24-year-old seems to have two TOWIE secret admirers, who are co-stars with her fellow Islander Joey Essex.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Wanda Film, China’s largest cinema operator, has expanded its business relationship with Imax Corp. in a huge deal that straddles technology and content. With 381 Imax installations, Wanda alone operates more Imax venues than most countries.

Imax and Wanda Film, China‘s largest exhibitor, have announced a big expansion of their longtime strategic partnership there spanning technology and content.

A feature version of the buzzy Three-Body Problem sci-fi novels is in the works from veteran Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. 

Actress Sue Cleaver has been missing from Coronation Street for three months, and now she has finally confirmed when she will be returning to the cobbles as her character Eileen Grimshaw. Eileen flew off to Thailand in the spring to visit her son Jason (Ryan Thomas), who had been injured in a motorbike accident, and she has been away ever since, although her boyfriend George (Tony Maudsley) recently heard from her when she needed money transferred abroad to pay for Jason’s hospital bill.The real reason for Eileen’s absence is that Sue Cleaver took a break from the soap to star in the nationwide tour of Sister Act: The Musical. She played Mother Superior, but now Wendi Peters has taken on the role so Sue can return to the cobbles.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief All Rights Entertainment, the Paris, Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based international film agency has picked up international sales duties on animated children and family feature “Out of the Nest.” The film had its world premiere this week at the Annecy International Animation Festival. In the Kingdom of Castilia, days from the coronation of the new Emperor and Empress, their seven royal fledglings are taken and it’s up to one hero to return them safely; a teenage delivery boy, Arthur the Goat. His dreams of becoming a world-class barber are put on hold when he becomes the unwitting guardian of the royal heirs.

As studio and network executives rack their heads around what the under 25 demographic craves, multihyphenate creator and actor Alan Chikin Chow, who is behind the YouTube hit series Alan’s Universe, and his cast of Chelsea Sik, Michelle Park and Haven Everly have already figured it out.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic Park 4” movie is set to make use of locations in Thailand as well as studios in Malta and the U.K. The Gareth Edwards-directed picture, produced by Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, is expected to star Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Luna Blaise and David Iacono.

Legacy U.S. shows such as The Office and Friends remain popular in Asia, but interest in American content is on the wane in the region, a new study shows.

A Scots man has admitted serious sexual assault of a child and possessing indecent images of children.