Thailand Doubles Cash Rebate Cap To $4.4M, Considers Increase To 30%; Local Studios Set To Expand As More Productions Shoot On Stages

Selome Hailu Goodbye, Tanya — Belinda’s back! Natasha Rothwell will return to “The White Lotus” for Season 3, Variety has learned from multiple sources close to the production. Rothwell was a fan favorite in Season 1 as spa manager Belinda Lindsey, who was strung along by wealthy resort guest Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) with promises of an investment to open her own practice. Plot and character details remain under wraps for the new season, but creator Mike White teased after the Season 2 finale that he envisions “a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality” — potentially aligning with Belinda’s wellness background.

Jessi has signed with Jay Park‘s label More Vision.During Jessi’s set at Rolling Loud Thailand today (April 14), she brought out Jay Park for a special performance of an unreleased song called ‘Blue Check’.Following their performance, Park announced that Jessi has joined his label More Vision. “Jessi, I and More Vision are going to be working together officially from here on out,” Park said.“Let me give Jessi a warm welcome to More Vision, and thank you for choosing us to represent you,” he added, before giving Jessi a hug.Here’s @JAYBUMAOM #JayPark revealing #Jessi is now with #MoreVision at #rollingloudthailand pic.twitter.com/NIC2CXdRvV— NME Asia (@nmeasia) April 14, 2023 The deal comes nearly a year after Jessi left the PSY-owned P Nation in July of 2022.

Former The Apprentice contestant Luisa Zissman has been enjoying a holiday in Thailand, and in a set of snaps shared on Wednesday, the entrepreneur was seen living her best life on a horse in the middle of the ocean. Smiling at the camera on horseback wearing a slinky green bikini, she captioned the post: "Happiest when……" People flocked to her comments to say how amazing her trip was looking, with one user writing: "The best feeling ! [two smiling face with three heat emojis]".

Katie Price has avoided her bankruptcy court hearing for a fifth time, after jetting back from Thailand where she enjoyed an extended break with some of her children and on-off boyfriend, Carl Woods.The glamour model and mum of five, 44, had been due to attend a hearing over her £3.2m debt repayment at the Royal Courts of Justice today, but it has been pushed back once again, to 7 July this year. Katie was declared bankrupt for the third time in November 2019 after failing to repay a debt of £3.2 million. The hearing was originally supposed to take place in June 2022, but was postponed until February of this year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Beijing 2022,” the official documentary about the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, has been set as the opening film of the revived Beijing International Film Festival. It is directed by noted narrative and documentary film maker Lu Chuan (“Kekexili,” “City of Life and Death” and Disney’s “Born in China”) and will have its world premiere at the festival. The festival will run April 22-29 and be based in the Huairou district which has become an out of town hub for the film industry, as well as other venues in the Chinese capital. For the past three editions the BJIFF has been held online due to disruptions caused by China’s strict anti-COVID measures.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Organizers of Thailand’s Suphannahong National Film Awards on Friday evening reversed an earlier rule change that had caused several filmmakers to call for a boycott. Earlier this week it emerged that a recent rule change effectively disqualified independent or low-budget titles. The criteria stipulated that, to qualify for nomination, movies must be shown in cinemas (direct to streaming titles do not qualify), must have had a release in at least five regions or big cities, and attract audiences of at least 50,000 spectators. At least, one local media report said that the rules were introduced in 2019. But the change had little impact in the intervening years due to low levels of film production.

A young dad-of-five has tragically died after a horrific motorbike crash during a dream trip to Thailand.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Online story platform Wattpad and Thai media firm GMMTV have joined forces to adapt digital comic “My ID Is Gangnam Beauty!” for TV. The show will begin production this summer and be known as “Beauty Newbie” when it begins airing on GMMTV in early 2024. The adaptation will follow Liu, a young woman who feels the need to get plastic surgery, and Guy, who is seen as having a perfect face. The show asks whether, in a world that judges and criticizes based on appearance, romance can blossom between two people who see themselves so differently?  The underlying webtoon by Maenggi Ki has been viewed 1.4 billion times and has a significant following in Thailand, where Korean culture is popular and beauty pageants remain a mainstay of mass TV.

The White Lotus” is ready to take on a new country in its third season. The show, which has won numerous awards over its past seasons, is gearing up for a new installment, this time, in Thailand. Jennifer Coolidge sneaks into Jennifer Lopez’s hotel room and leaves a hilarious video on her phoneGolden Globes 2023: Best red carpet looksSources confirmed to Variety that it’s very likely that season three will be shot in a Four Seasons resort, like previous seasons.

Season 3 of “The White Lotus” will reportedly take place in Thailand.

 will reportedly be set in Thailand, according to multiple outlets that have sources close to the HBO production. The reports come after creator Mike White made several comments about setting a new installment somewhere in Asia, following Maui, Hawaii, in season 1 and Sicily, Italy, in season 2. «I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent.

The White Lotus season three will reportedly be set in Thailand.The first two seasons of Mike White’s HBO series were filmed at Four Season resorts in Hawaii and Italy, respectively. Continuing that trend, the show’s third run is expected to be shot in one of the hotel chain’s four major properties in Thailand, which are located in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui and the Golden Triangle.Thailand’s Four Seasons resorts are spread across the city, country, jungle and beach, giving the new season plenty of settings to play with.White previously hinted that season three would take place in Asia and focus on “death and Eastern religion and spirituality.“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said in a clip attached to the season two finale.

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Mike White and his revolving cast of characters are heading to Thailand for the third season of The White Lotus, Deadline has confirmed.

The White Lotus” is heading to Thailand, multiple sources close to the production tell Variety. As the first two seasons of Mike White’s “The White Lotus” were shot at Four Seasons resorts in Hawaii and Italy, respectively, it’s possible that Season 3 will take place at one of the luxury hotel giant’s four properties in Thailand, which are located in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui and the Golden Triangle. Thailand’s Four Seasons resorts are spread across the city, country, jungle and beach, giving White plenty of settings to play with, if he so chooses. HBO declined to comment.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Multi-territory Asian streaming platform Viu is to deliver a Thai version of hit drama series “Reborn Rich.” The 16-episode Korean drama was produced by Korea’s JTBC Studios and Viu, aired on JTBC in Korea between November and December 2022 and was branded as a Viu Original in the 16-territoires in which it operates. Its story sees a long-term employee of a large family-run conglomerate falsely accused of embezzlement. After he is shot on an overseas business trip, he finds himself in the body of the family’s grandson and decides to use his new identity as a means by which to take revenge on the family and the corporation.

Porsha Williams (now Porsha Guobadia) may have turned in her peach, but she picked up a first-class ticket to Thailand for season 3 . «I was like, you know what? Let's go for a different experience with ,» the  alum tells ET over video chat. She left that show in 2021, after its 13th season, her ninth as a castmate. Porsha replaced 's Tinsley Mortimer on the trip, switching up the planned dynamic of pairs of co-stars.

Picturestart and Picture Perfect Federation have set JC Lee to direct the English-language remake of Thai hit Bad Genius and also announced key cast members as well as a raft of international presales.

Richard Kuipers The third feature directed by Vietnamese superstar Ngo Thanh Van — better known to western audiences as actor Veronica Ngo in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and “The Old Guard” — lives up to its title with a furious display of female revenge set in the seedy streets of late-’90s Ho Chi Minh City. Despite a routine plot and some abrasive tonal shifts, this tale of a motherly mentor turning three damaged young women into deadly assassins is packed with exciting action and boasts fine performances from four killers bound by blood, bullets and all manner of deadly weapons. Following a series of rowdy screenings in SXSW’s Midnighters section, “Furies” will stream worldwide as the first Vietnamese Netflix original feature on March 23.