Check out the new Tom Yum Goong trailer / Mirror 1 / Mirror 2 / Mirror 3 (right click and save, 15MB, please no hotlink !!) which is now available to download... Great actions scenes in it !! The film is due to be released on 11 August 2005 in several Asian countries.

By the way, check out new magazines scans as well as the Tony Jaa TV program list, prepare your videos recorder !

Aug 2 - Tee Sib (Ch.3 / 10.20 p.m)
Aug 5 - Wan Wan Young Wann Yuu (Ch.7 / 10.25 p.m.)
Aug 7 - Tee Nee Mor Chit (Ch.7 / 10.25 p.m.) ***may be changed***
Aug 12 - Khor Bork (Ch.5 / ***)
Aug 14 - Lang Kar Deaw Kan (Ch.3 / 12.00 p.m.)
Aug 14 - Mo Show (Ch.9 / 10.00 p.m.)
Aug 15 - Sofa Away (Ch.5 / 11.00 p.m.)
Aug 18 - Chai Ba Din Show (Ch.9 / 10.00 p.m.)

Tom Yum Goong release dates update :
Hong Kong - 11 August 2005
Thailand - 11 August 2005
South Korea - 19 August 2005
Taiwan - 19 August 2005
Singapore - 25 August 2005
France - 8 February 2006
UK - 24 March 2006
Japan - Spring 2006

The official korean TYG website is no open with several high-res pictures of the film, a poster to download and the korean trailer.

You can also see a new trailer for "Tom Yum Goong : The Game" as well as new pictures from the TYG premiere.

Check out the pictures of the Tom Yum Goong premiere which was held on 27 July 2005 in Bangkok, thanks to Deknang.com, as well as several scans of a thai magazine featuring Tony Jaa.

Also, Tony Jaa was a guest of the "Dung Zoug Sai Rong" TV show in Hong Kong on 28 July 2005, you can watch the show on jade.tvb.com website (video number 4).

Don't forget to watch Channel 3 on Thai television on 2 August 2005 from 22.30 to 00.30 (Bangkok time) since Tony Jaa and the Tom Yum Goong cast will be the guest of "At Ten" : Meet the actors from the movie Tom Yum Goong, Tony Jaa, Tuck Bongkoch, Johnny Ngian and Mum Jokmok who will talk about the shooting in Australia. You will laugh out loud with Mum's jokes and see many shows performed by Tony Jaa like singing, rapping, dancing B-Boy, and of course, martial arts with his on-screen opponent, Johnny Ngian.

 

Tony Jaa was the guest of the Samakom Chom Dao on Thai TV today. He showed his family and house in Thailand and even sang a song ! You can download the video of the show (20MB, medium quality, no hotlink please!), hear Tony Jaa singing and see screencaptures. Enjoy !

 

Finally someone was kind enough to send me the whole Ong-Bak world tour show aired on 22 July 2005. You can download the video here (right click and save, 11.2 MB). Thanks a lot to KM.
Also you can see a new set of Tom Yum Goong pictures (page 7 and +) as well as new interviews of the whole cast : Tony Jaa, Prachya Pinkaew, Mom Jokmok, Bongkuch Kongmalai... Check out a presentation of Tom Yum Goong : The Game (crew, system requirement and screencaptures) and some drawings of the comic on the official website (flash part).
Don't forget to watch the Samakom Chom Dao show on channel 3 (Thai TV) today 27 July 2005 at 22.20 (Thai time). You can already see some pictures on the forum. Also today (27 July) Tom Yum Goong open for special premiere for Thailand and the world at SF ma-bun-krong (theater in bangkok) with Prime Minister Thaksin Chinowat and foreign guests as the first people in the world to see the movie.

  

The Ong-Bak World Tour show was aired on 22 July 2005 on Thai television and you can know download it here (right click and save, 6 mb, no hotlink please !). Unfortunately, we did not find the high-res version yet... Also the file is not complete, it might be missing about 15 min... Anyway it worths to download because you can see several new scenes of Tom Yum Goong and Prachya Pinkaew kindly talked about tonyjaa.org ! Thank you again ! You can check the forum to have a translation of what Prachya Pinkaew said. Enjoy !

Tony Jaa was in Hong Kong two days ago making a demonstration during the Mr. Hong Kong competition and he did some new moves from Tum Yum Goong, his new film. You can download the video here (right click and save as / 22 mb). Please don't hotlink the video. Thanks to Dao.

 

On TNA, you can check an interview of Tony Jaa and some images of Tom Yum Goong : The Game (2 mins, thai language). The Thai radio 88 PEAK FM will aired the Tom Yum Goong premiere in Hong Kong from 31 July to 3 August 2005.

Also, the official Tom Yum Goong website has been updated with some interesting production notes and trivia. Check them out, there are some useful things to know about the film...

Check out two interesting articles posted on Tom Yum Goong official website. The first talks about the 4-minute uncut action scene and the second is about the scene with Tony Jaa and the X Game.

"It's the longest action shot in the world. You've never seen something like this before. There may have been some long shooting scenes in other films but not a long shot martial art scene that the fight continue from the first floor to the fourth floor of a building. The actors and the camera crew had to climb up stairs to the first, the second, the third, and the fourth floor. It is obviously a very great scene in this movie".

"One of the new movements in this scene is when Jaa had to do a back sommersault and then press himself on the wall of a building. The space where he stands is very narrow and he had to act like a gecko. We called it The gecko movement. He had to make sure that he will land at the right spot or else he could fall and get hurt. This shot, as all shots, there is no using of sling. We let Jaa have a lot of time for meditate and practice until he was ready. This shot is very quick but the picture came out very exciting. Jaa has a talent of climbing high on a wall without any helping tool. In this film, it's not a brick wall, but a glass wall that he has to climb to escape from an ATV car. If the glass break, it can be dangerous as well. So we have to be very accurate about the time of climbing glasswall and the time that the car coming to hit him. If not, Jaa could get hurt".

Check out an interesting interview of Tony Jaa on "Sa-ma-kom-chom-dao" program, wednesday 27th July 2005 on channel 3 at 22.20 (Thailand time).

Sia Jiang, the owner of Sahamongkol Film, might have said there should be two versions of Tom Yum Goong: one version of 1h40 for Thailand and a second version of 2h10 for international release. The feedbacks of the first version should determine the cuts of the second... Anyway to be confirmed.

By the way, Tony Jaa is currently in Hong Kong where he'll perform during the Mr. Hong Kong contest. He'll be back in Thailand on 27th July for the world premiere of Tom Yum Goong in Bangkok at SF Cinema (MBK branch) about 08.30 p.m. The Prime minister will be present.

Today was aired the Ong-Bak World Tour show on thai TV and Prachya Pinkaew was kind enough to mention and show tonyjaa.org ! Thank you sincerely ! We hope you like our work ! Just wanted to add that the owner of tonyjaa.org is french, not japanese :)

By the way Tonyjaa.org is one year old today ! The forum was created on 22 July 2004... Since one year, people from 140 different countries came to the site... We met a lot of wonderful persons... Tony Jaa and his team were kind enough to visit us ! Thank you so much to every person who helped us !

DekNang.com has posted several magazines scans on their website, check them out ! You can also see several pictures of Tony Jaa signing the trading cards on Bestboy website.

 

A Ong-Bak World Tour TV show airs this Friday 22 august 2005 on the thai TV Channel 7 at 16.45 (Bangkok time). You can watch it online for free here (just click on channel 7).

A press conference about "Tom Yum Goong : The Game" was held yesterday. You can see pictures of the merchandises which will be available to buy : caps, comics and a lot more. The game is due to be released on the same day then the film, on 11 august 2005. More informations soon about how to buy the game...
** UPDATE ** More pictures here.
By the way, you can see two new posters of Tom Yum Goong.

 

The Tom Yum Goong trading cards website has been updated with details of the trading cards as well as three videos showing Tony Jaa, Prachya Pinkaew and Panna Rittikrai signing the cards. The boxes will be available to sell next week on bestboy website (42.99 USD per box until 1/8/2005, 47.76 USD then, shipping worlwide) but you can already pre-order them here.

By the way, you can see three new wallpapers on Tom Yum Goong official website.

Tony Jaa has kindly mentioned tonyjaa.org in one of his recent interviews. "Now I have a fanclub site created by a foriegner called Tony Jaa dot O-R-G (tonyjaa.org) . Whatever I do, wherever I go, they report everything. Sometimes I chatted with them, too". Thanks Ongkot for the translation.

The official TYG website has been updated with a very good introduction and a new flash site ! Check it out !

DekNang.com has kindly updated his website with several magazines scans featuring Tony Jaa : Volume, Lips, Mars, SSD and Entertainment Weekly. Also check out several other pictures of Tony Jaa promoting thai fruits. Thanks a lot to DekNang.com ! Some beautiful pictures to see, enjoy :)

   

Check out several pictures and a video of Tony Jaa promoting thai fruit as well as some behind the scenes pictures of Tom Yum Goong. On Deknang.com, you can also see a new poster mix.

 

Check out some pics of Tony Jaa promoting thai fruits in China few days ago, specially two "behind the scene" pictures from the commercial which was filmed for this occasion : a fight scene between Tony and Ron Smoorenburg.
Also, here's an interesting interview with Ron Smoorenburg from moviexplosion.com. Ron has played a role in Tom Yum Goong : he's one of the final fight's highlights in a scene where Tony Jaa is fighting 60 men !
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Premier Asia have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Ong Bak : Platinum Edition for 19th September 2005 priced at 19.99. The film is coming on dvd as a two-disc Platinum Edition packed with over 5 hours of extras ! Check out amazon.co.uk to buy the dvd.

Features include:

* Digitally remastered and restored 16:9 anamorphic version enhanced for widescreen TVs
* Exclusive brand new orchestral soundtrack composed especially for the UK theatrical and DVD release
* Dual language format (English dubbed and Thai language with remastered English subtitles)
* Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS audio
* SDH subtitles
* Exclusive feature length audio commentary by Asia cinema exepert Bey Logan
* "The Road To Glory" an eight-part "making of" documentary
* "The Art of Muay Thai" an exclusive documentary on the art of Thai boxing
* "From Dust to Glory" an interview with star Tony Jaa
* "Ong-Bak on Tour" promo tour highlights including live martial arts demonstrations by Tony Jaa
* Deleted scenes and alternate ending
* "Visible Secret" a rare and exclusive rehearsal montage featuring Tony Jaa and action consultant Don Ferguson
* "The Bodyguard" an exclusive interview with Don Ferguson
* "Mad Dog" an exclusive interview with co-star David Ismalone
* "Pearl Harbour" an exclusive interview with co-star Erik Markus Sheutz
* UK promotional trailer
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Check out an article and a new picture of Tony Jaa in Entertainement weekly magazine.

Movist.com has posted 9 new images of Tom Yum Goong ! You can check them in the gallery.
** some spoilers ! **

 

Check out 6 new posters on Tom Yum Goong official website !

According to Twitch, "Born to Fight" and "The Bodyguard" will be released in UK region 2 DVD on 12th and 19th September 2005.

"The Bodyguard" marks the writing and directorial debut of Tony Jaa's Ong-Bak co-star, the multi-talented actor, comedian and TV host Petchtai Wongkamlau. Tony Jaa is making a cameo appearence in the film. Features include "Making of" featurette, trailers, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, DVD-Rom content featuring cast and crew biographies, Thai Cinema articles.

"Born to Fight" was directed by Panna Rittikrai, Tony Jaa's master.

The Tom Yum Goong trading card site has been updated with a poster.

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