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Feb
09
2008

Weinstein Watch:  Prachya Pinkaew’s CHOCOLATE

Posted by Kurt Halfyard at 10:47am.

Posted in Film News .

After a very successful opening this weekend in Thailand (trouncing Stephen Chow‘s CJ7), much anticipated girl-action flick Chocolate, from director Prachya Pinkaew has been snapped up by The Weinstein Company for North American distribution.  Now Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong were both severely hacked and cut and re-soundtracked by Luc Besson and TWC respectively; how do you think this is going to fare with Chocolate?  Oh yea, and here comes the ”Quentin Tarantino Presents:” you can bet good money on that.  All gripes aside, it’s good to see some Thai goodness get a (hopefully) relatively speedy release without the presence of a global star along the likes of Tony Jaa.

No international release dates set although the rights have sold in the U.K., S. Korea, Hong Kong and other places according to Screen.com.

The English friendly trailer that surfaced last month is in the Twitch Video Player and embedded after the jump.

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Reader Comments

  1. cklambo 02/09/2008 @ 4:35pm

    Her powers remind me of Taskmaster.

    (Anyone get that reference?)

  2. ChevalierAguila 02/09/2008 @ 9:42pm

    Let’s start betting how stupid the renaming of the film is going to be, no doubt in order to prevent people from confusing this with that Johnny Depp film. Here are some choices:

    “Lady Dragon”

    “Hell to Pay”

    “Mrs Ong Bak”

    “The Fighting Spirit”

    “Deadly Revenge”

  3. iacus 02/10/2008 @ 2:17am

    “Chocolate Dragon”

  4. kenixfan 02/10/2008 @ 2:28am

    “Legend of The Chocolate Fist”

    “Lady Protector”

  5. Sjekster 02/10/2008 @ 6:57am

    Awesomer than Tony Jaa

  6. The Visitor 02/10/2008 @ 8:22pm

    Legend Of The Chocolate Kingdom

    Curse Of The Inedible Chocolate

    Vengeful Sword Of The Sacred Temple

    Sting Of The Iron Scorpion

    Kung Fu Candy

    oh the possibilities are limitless!

  7. Novastar 02/11/2008 @ 5:24am

    chocolate rain.

  8. anton_es 02/11/2008 @ 7:09am

    chocolateress

  9. lblisters 02/11/2008 @ 10:02am

    The Signal

  10. Kurt Halfyard 02/11/2008 @ 5:31pm

    “Hard Tigress”

  11. roystalin 02/11/2008 @ 8:23pm

    “Where is my Mars Bar”

  12. lblisters 02/11/2008 @ 8:49pm

    Sweet Revenge

    Chokarate

    Jee Jaa is… The Collector

  13. wisekwai 02/11/2008 @ 11:26pm

    Sweet Vengeance

    Come Sweet Death

    Sister Sweetness

    Kill Zone: Curse of the Warrior Princess

  14. bobmichaels 02/11/2008 @ 11:37pm

    “GIVE ME BACK MY CHOCOLATE!”

  15. Ard Vijn 02/12/2008 @ 2:56am

    Owww…

    You guys are all wayyyy ahead of me: I came here to make a “Legend...” joke!

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