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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Thursday , May 14 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Thai films at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 853 , 20:09:43   | Category : culture   Thai film   Festivals and awards   box office  
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Just one Thai film is in the official selection for this year's Cannes Film Festival -- the most prestigious cinema event on the planet.It's called Nymph or Nang Mai and it's directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang. It's screening in the Un Certain Regard competition. That's the edgier, second-tier category under the main Palme d'Or program.I don't want to get too much into what the film is about because it's....


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Wednesday , December 17 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi back for a second week
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 861 , 14:31:25   | Category : culture   cinema scene   box office  
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The current No 1 Bollywood film, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Match Made in Heaven), is back in Bangkok cinemas for a second weekend after its big worldwide opening last week.Shahrukh Khan stars in this story about the transformation of a soberly dressed middle-aged man who falls in love with a fun-loving younger woman (Anushka Sharma), and the pair then enter a reality-TV dance show.Critics are raving, call....


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Monday , September 8 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Bangkok Dangerous tops U.S. box office on weakest weekend in seven years
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 686 , 23:12:47   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   box office  
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Bangkok Dangerous was the No. 1 movie in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend, but it takes the top slot during what was the slowest weekend in seven years. It needed just US$7.9 million to best Tropic Thunder, which was in its fourth week of release. Coming in third was The House Bunny, which has been in cinemas for three weeks."We're going to make a profit on it," Steve Rothenberg, studio....


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Wednesday , September 3 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Boonchu puts a nail in The Coffin
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 787 , 22:47:58   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   box office  
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The teen comedy Boonchu 9 was the No. 1 film for the opening weekend from Thursday, August 28 to Monday, September 1, 2008, at Major Cineplex, Thailand's biggest cinema chain.Word is that Boonchu 9 cleared 15 million baht over that four-day period, and might have done better had it not been for the anti-government protests.A reboot of a six-film series from Five Star Production that ran in the late 1....


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