Check out the Australian release of Born to Fight (zone 4) on 30th november 2005. The DVD contains english subtitles as well as some extras (making of, teaser trailer, theatrical trailer, 3D animatic, comparisons, deleted scenes).

Reminder : Tony Jaa doesn't appear in Born to Fight. Anyway the film was directed by Panna Rittikrai, Tony Jaa's master, and the original version of Born to Fight was one of the films who inspired Tony to study Martial Arts...

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Check out two high-res Tom Yum Goong pictures in the gallery.

 

The Thai Tom Yum Goong DVD might be released in January or February 2006, more informations later...

According to nationmultimedia.com, Tony Jaa, who was invited to instruct the Thai pencak silat team some special fighting skills, will be the presenter at next years World Pencak Silat Championships. It will be hosted in December next year in Phuket (Thailand) :
"Yeerum has been invited to instruct the Thai pencak silat team some special fighting skills. The famous Muay Thai warrior, who starred in the Tom Yum Goong movie, was asked by the Pencak Silat Association of Thailand to help the Thai team with their technique and tactics ahead of the SEA Games in the Philippines.
"I hope that with a helping hand from Ja Panom, my players expectations in the SEA Games can be high. Ja will also serve as a presenter at next years World Pencak Silat Championships. It will be hosted in December next year in Phuket," national team manager Wandee Kunchonyakong said."

Rottentamatoes is reporting that while Tony is busy on tour promoting Tom Yum Goong, director Prachya Pinkaew is putting together the team for the next film, "temporarily titled" Daab Atamas (Sword) :
"Prachya has roped in writer Praphas Chonsalanon, a co-founder of Work Point Entertainment Company, who will write the script. "He met Jaa when I was working at Grammy," Prachya was quoted as saying. "He's been interested in working with us since then, but its not until this project that the timings been right." "Bringing in the popular writer will perhaps overcome problems with substance and ensure the new movie has a stronger story line than Tom Yum Goong."

Check out an another short video of the Jor Jai Show, aired in May 2002, in which you can see Tony Jaa jumping over two cars! (an another extract of the Jor Jai show was posted several weeks ago). Thanks to Pongz!

Several pictures of Tony during the Gala event for elephants preservation have been added in the gallery. The Muay Thai page has been updated and a page about Thailand has been created (presentation, culture, films and gallery).

A Google search engine was added to the site, just scroll down to the countdown images. You can perform a search on Google or Tonyjaa.org (site, forum and gallery).

Today begins the event for elephants preservation in Surin, Thailand, in the presence of Tony Jaa. Thanks to all the persons who can support the association ! More...

* UPDATE * Check out some pictures of the gala ! (source 1-2).

 

When Tony Jaa was in France last month, he met some fans who won a competition organizated by Skyrock, a french radio. Check out the video interview (17MB, 6'19, french and thai, mirror, permalink, the video doesn't seem to be complete) as well as some pictures.

* UPDATE * Check out a translation of the interview, thanks to Thawan Daeng.

Ethaicd.com has released two other Tony Jaa's early films : Puen Hode (US$ 5) and Mue Prab Puen Hode (US$ 4.5, screencaptures). Both VCDs are coming out whitout english subtitles but are they really essential ? Screencaptures of Puen Hode later!

 

Tonyjaa.org was unavailable for several hours due to an attack on our hosting's server. Sorry for the inconvenience, everything seems to be working fine now!

Finally the articles section is open... Check out several interviews of Tony Jaa, mostly from February 2005.

Sia Jang, Sahamongkol Film's owner, revealed to thaitownusa.com that Tony Jaa's next film project won't be Sword but a film which will be shot in various countries such as America, Japan and China. The plot is Jaa goes to China to learn the martial art from Shaolin, then goes Japan for Ninja, then goes to America for Taekwando. Tony Jaa will be expert in all style of martial art including Muay Thai. Sword will be the 4th project.

Sia Jiang told that now Tony Jaa is the hottest star from Thailand, because Hollywood agent wants to be his manager and some big Hollywood companies want Jaa to be in their films.
Thanks ekkamon for the news!

"Tom Yum Goong, l'Honneur du Dragon" (The Dragon's honor) will be released in France by TFM on 8 February 2006. You can now discover the french film poster (pdf format) as well as the french temporary press dossier. The film will be 1h34 long (the Thai version is 1h50 long) and the official website will open in the next weeks. More informations later with pictures and videos!

The Thai Tom Yum Goong VCD + bonus is now available for pre-order on ethaicd for only US$6, free worldwide shipping (cheaper than yesasia). The 2 VCDs will be released on 9 november 2005 with deleted scenes ! Don't miss it !

Check out the mp3s of the Lucky Cat Radio Show aired on 28th october on the UK radio station Resonance : the show's mp3 (Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong reviews) and the Tom Yum Goong recipe's mp3.
Tonyjaa.org was mentionned during the show, thank you !