Cabinet Approves Additional Budget For 6 Movies Shot In Thailand

[webfact]

Hollywood megastar Russell Crowe in Thailand for the filming of the movie “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” last October with the striking photos he took of both Bangkok and Phuket being shared on Twitter. 

 

TNR Staff 

 

THE CABINET yesterday (Sept. 20) approved an additional 212 million baht from this year’s budget reserved for emergencies and necessary expenses to cover a shortfall in the promotion of the shooting of six foreign movies in Thailand with these scheduled to be released this year, INN News said.

 

Ms. Traisulee Traisornkul, deputy spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, said the request for additional budget was made by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports which oversees implementation of incentives for filming of movies in Thailand. The ministry has 167 million baht of this budget left which is insufficient to cover payments.

 

Shooting of all six movies for which additional funding was requested were completed last year. Four of them are from the US, one from France and one from Singapore and all are scheduled to be released this year.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/09/20/cabinet-approves-additional-budget-for-6-movies-shot-in-thailand/

 

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[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Four of them are from the US, one from France and one from Singapore and all are scheduled to be released this year.

Wonder how many will be showing the seedier side of Thailand rather than the glorious tourism stuff ? 

[2baht]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

THE CABINET yesterday (Sept. 20) approved an additional 212 million baht from this year’s budget reserved for emergencies and necessary expenses to cover a shortfall

Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean! ????????

[mikebell]

I have written four books; two full length film scripts; and Series 1 of Thai TV shorts.  Not one agent in Thailand showed any interest.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

THE CABINET yesterday (Sept. 20) approved an additional 212 million baht from this year’s budget reserved for emergencies and necessary expenses to cover a shortfall in the promotion of the shooting of six foreign movies in Thailand

????

[klauskunkel]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The ministry has 167 million baht of this budget left which is insufficient to cover payments.

Yes, definitely not enough. Inflation, you know...

[josephbloggs]

9 hours ago, mikebell said:

I have written four books; two full length film scripts; and Series 1 of Thai TV shorts.  Not one agent in Thailand showed any interest.

Maybe they are not very good?

[kevc]

Aren't they trying to fine the makers of The Beach ten million baht because of damage done after paying them a fortune to film there, fine way to attract film companies.

[josephbloggs]

24 minutes ago, kevc said:

Aren't they trying to fine the makers of The Beach ten million baht because of damage done after paying them a fortune to film there, fine way to attract film companies.

10 million baht was a compromise agreed by all parties for doing this.

 

Edited September 21, 2022 by josephbloggs

[mikebell]

14 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Maybe they are not very good?

They'll never know if they don't show any interest.