Exclusive: In-demand Thai filmmaker Nattawut ‘Baz’ Poonpiriya, known for Asian box office smash Bad Genius and Sundance 2021 winner One For The Road, is to direct English-language horror-thriller The Innkeeper for Crazy Rich Asians and Midway backer Starlight.
Set against the backdrop of the Southeast Asian financial crisis in 1997, the film will chart the story of a man who must grapple with his own fears after discovering his disappeared twin brother in a desolate Thai hotel.
The movie is the first project hatched under Poonpiriya’s first look development deal with Starlight, whose Peter Luo will produce.
Script is written by Eakasit Thairath (Warrior King 2) and Poonpiriya, with revisions by Logan Martin (Meat). The plan is to shoot in the U.S and Thailand in 2022.
Poonpiriya’s thriller Bad Genius was the highest-grossing Thai film of 2017, and went on to become the most successful Thai film ever overseas after grossing more than $30M in China.
Set against the backdrop of the Southeast Asian financial crisis in 1997, the film will chart the story of a man who must grapple with his own fears after discovering his disappeared twin brother in a desolate Thai hotel.
The movie is the first project hatched under Poonpiriya’s first look development deal with Starlight, whose Peter Luo will produce.
Script is written by Eakasit Thairath (Warrior King 2) and Poonpiriya, with revisions by Logan Martin (Meat). The plan is to shoot in the U.S and Thailand in 2022.
Poonpiriya’s thriller Bad Genius was the highest-grossing Thai film of 2017, and went on to become the most successful Thai film ever overseas after grossing more than $30M in China.
- 3/22/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: 47 Meters Down producers James Harris and Mark Lane are exiting their partnership with UK financier The Fyzz Facility to relaunch their former label Tea Shop Productions with financier Head Gear Films (The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind).
Development and production executive Leonora Darby will also be leaving The Fyzz to join them at the new venture with Head Gear’s Phil Hunt and Compton Ross’ who will partner with the producers in developing and financing film and TV projects.
Harris will continue to be based in La and Lane will be based in the London office of Head Gear affiliate sales company Bankside Films. The duo will continue to work with UK and U.S. partners, including with The Fyzz Pictures on their titles in production. They are currently delivering We Summon The Darkness from director Marc Myers, The Informer starring Joel Kinnaman and Rosamund Pike, and Johannes Roberts...
Development and production executive Leonora Darby will also be leaving The Fyzz to join them at the new venture with Head Gear’s Phil Hunt and Compton Ross’ who will partner with the producers in developing and financing film and TV projects.
Harris will continue to be based in La and Lane will be based in the London office of Head Gear affiliate sales company Bankside Films. The duo will continue to work with UK and U.S. partners, including with The Fyzz Pictures on their titles in production. They are currently delivering We Summon The Darkness from director Marc Myers, The Informer starring Joel Kinnaman and Rosamund Pike, and Johannes Roberts...
- 5/10/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The dead rise to eat the living in our second Horror Highlights of the day, which includes a trailer for Dawning of the Dead, details on the Lankershim Boulevard screening at Seraph Films' fifth annual Halloween Short Horror Film Night, the 2017 BloodList of renowned and un-produced thriller and horror scripts, and a trailer for the new found footage horror film The Faith Community.
Dawning of the Dead Trailer & Release Details: "Prepare for a zombie apocalypse this Christmas!
Uncork’d Entertainment and filmmakers Tony Jopia, Nika Braun, Yannis Zafeiriou and Alexander Zwart reanimate the silly season with Dawning of the Dead, premiering on Digital 12/5.
While a virus that causes the dead to reanimate brings the world to its knees, the scientist responsible entrusts his cataclysmic findings to Katya Nevin, a troubled ex-war correspondent turned anchor-woman at W.W News. While she and the rest of her crew witness the collapse...
Dawning of the Dead Trailer & Release Details: "Prepare for a zombie apocalypse this Christmas!
Uncork’d Entertainment and filmmakers Tony Jopia, Nika Braun, Yannis Zafeiriou and Alexander Zwart reanimate the silly season with Dawning of the Dead, premiering on Digital 12/5.
While a virus that causes the dead to reanimate brings the world to its knees, the scientist responsible entrusts his cataclysmic findings to Katya Nevin, a troubled ex-war correspondent turned anchor-woman at W.W News. While she and the rest of her crew witness the collapse...
- 10/25/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Joe Russo and Chris Lamont’s “The Red Pill” and “The Lodge,” a new script by “Goodnight Mommy” directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, are among the projects included on horror genre guru Kailey Marsh’s 2017 BloodList of the most-liked screenplays and pilots in horror, thriller, dark comedy and sci-fi. The ninth annual list, announced Wednesday and based on a survey of 67 industry executives, was topped by Logan Martin’s “Meat,” about a “misanthropic man” who “notices bizarre changes in himself, his wife, and the animals inhabiting the territory around their homestead as they attempt to survive self-imposed isolation.” Other script titles include “Nightlight,...
- 10/25/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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