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K-pop boyband NCT 127 have their upcoming 2025 ‘Neo City – The Momentum’ world tour, featuring concerts in Asia, the US and more.Today (November 5), NCT 127 announced the stops for their 2025 ‘Neo City – The Momentum’ world tour, which will include concerts in Asia and the US from January to April next year.The boyband will kick things off with a two-night concert in Seoul on January 18 and 19, followed by two shows each in the Southeast Asian cities of Jakarta and Bangkok in February.At the end of February, NCT 127 will also embark on the tour’s North American leg in Duluth, Minnesota. It will continue on in March, with concerts in Illinois, Texas and California, as well as a singular Canadian date in Ontario.From mid-March to end-April, the group will return to Asia with concerts in Japan across three cities, as well as performances in Macau and Taipei.Venue and ticketign information for concerts on NCT 127’s 2025 ‘Neo City – The Momentum’ world tour have yet to be announced.

EXCLUSIVE: Bangkok-based horror studio Night Edge Pictures will present Thai horror film Night Shift at the upcoming American Film Market.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Pan-European indie group Vuelta, which recently bought Telepool in Germany, has completed another strategic acquisition with WW Entertainment, one of Benelux’s largest distributors. With offices in Amsterdam and in Belgium, WW Entertainment (previously eOne Entertainment Benelux) has consolidated a solid portfolio of local and international titles in the last decade.

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K-pop girl group aespa have announced their upcoming new mini-album ‘Whiplash’ with the release of a teaser.On September 23, aespa dropped a cyberpunk-inspired graphic trailer for their fifth mini-album ‘Whiplash’, out October 21. According to SM Entertainment per Korea JoongAng Daily, the record will include six new songs.

Kylie Minogue has announced a 2025 ‘Tension’ world tour – check out all the dates and find ticket details below.The pop icon will be performing shows across the UK, her home country of Australia and Asia next year.The ‘Padam Padam’ singer will kick off the tour with a performance at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia on February 15, before she continues on to Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.The Asia leg will begin with a show in Bangkok on March 10, followed by gigs in Tokyo, Kaohsiung and Manila – with all venues still yet to be confirmed.The pop star will then embark on the UK leg with a show at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on May 16, before she continues on to Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, London, Nottingham and a final concert at Birmingham’s BP Pulse Live on May 31. She’s also teased that more dates will be announced soon.General sale tickets for UK dates will be available from Friday (September 27) at 10am BST here.General sale for Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney starts Wednesday, October 2 at 11am local time, and 1pm local time for Melbourne.

French director Audrey Diwan is opening the San Sebastian Film Festival this evening with third feature Emmanuelle, in the company of its star Noémie Merlant and supporting cast members Will Sharpe, Chacha Huang and Jamie Campbell Bower.

Coldplay has won the hearts of fans by offering tickets for their ongoing world tour at a mere £20.The rock band, who first graced the stage at Camden's Dublin Castle in 1998 as The Coldplay, have been globe-trotting for their Music Of The Spheres World Tour recently - and they're set to go on the road again next year, heading to cities including Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Athens, Bucharest, Lyon, Rome, Dusseldorf, Helsinki, Munich, Vienna, Dublin, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. Despite being one of the biggest bands on the planet, in an unexpected move, the band revealed that a limited number of tickets will be available for just £20.

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Luo’s Stars Collective has optioned the life rights of Pichaya Soontornyanakij, also known as “Chef Pam.” 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Thai auteur, Sivaroj Kongsakul made his feature directorial debut with “Eternity,” which screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong back in 2010. Having waited for over a decade, Kongsakul has chosen to entwine the fates of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier in his second feature, “Regretfully at Dawn.” The new film is confirmed to premiere in the New Directors section at the San Sebastian festival and will follow that shortly after with an appearance xx in Busan International Film Festival in October. The film is very different from “Eternity” and from Kongsakul’s recent TV work. In a small province not far from Bangkok, the life of Yong Junjam (portrayed by Surachai Juntimatorn, who is better-known as a veteran Thai rock musician) at first seems typical of an old man.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The “police station” built in a few days from an old retail unit in Surawong, central Bangkok, is so realistic from the outside that several pedestrians stop and stare, perhaps wondering if this is the place they should come to report some petty crime in the adjacent Patpong red light district. Inside, the building’s temporary reality as a set for the martial arts action movie “The Furious” is quickly revealed.

A former Manchester University student who went missing after a dream trip to Thailand has told his family he is safe.

New details have emerged over the movements of a former Manchester University student who was reported as missing after a dream trip to Thailand.

A tourist has mysteriously vanished just moments away from Bangkok airport, in the latest case of a missing Brit abroad. Simon Robinson, 27, from Skegness, Lincolnshire, was set to return to the UK on Friday 26 July but failed to catch his flight from Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok. His phone last pinged in the city before going dark, with no further contact with friends or family.

A young holidaymaker has disappeared in Thailand as he made his way to the airport to fly home.

EXCLUSIVE: Powerhouse Thai producer Vanridee Pongsittisak has unveiled more details about BASK Production House — a new collaboration formed between Bangkok-based studio GDH and Bad Genius director Baz Poonpiriya, which was unveiled earlier this month.

GOT7‘s Yugyeom has announced his upcoming 2024 ‘Trusty’ tour, featuring concerts in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and more.On July 26, GOT7 singer Yugyeom revealed the dates for his newly announced 2024 ‘Trusty’ tour. It’ll feature nine shows across eight countries from October to December this year.The K-pop star will kick-off his tour on October 5 with a show in Singapore.

Jeon Somi will be releasing new music later this week, her label has confirmed.Today (July 29), Jeon Somi’s K-pop agency The Black Label confirmed in a statement to Maeil Kyungje that she is set to release both a new song and music video this Friday (August 2) at 1pm KST.However, the label has yet to announce more details about the release, including its title and whether it will be accompanied by a larger body in the future.Somi’s upcoming single will come a year after she released her last mini-album, ‘Game Plan’, led by title track ‘Fast Forward’. Prior to that, she dropped her debut studio album ‘XOXO’ in October 2021.Somi’s first appearance in the music industry was on the 2015 reality TV series Sixteen, where she competed alongside 15 other JYP Entertainment trainees for spots in a girl group that would later become TWICE.While the singer did not make the cut, she later participated in the first season of Produce 101 in 2016, where she finished in first place and became a member of the project girl group I.O.I.In other K-pop news, GOT7 member Yugyeom has announced his 2024 ‘Trusty’ tour, featuring stops across Asia and Australia beginning in October this year.

SHINee singer Taemin has announced his 2024 solo world tour, titled ‘Ephemeral Gaze’, featuring concerts in Asia and more.Today (July 19), SHINee’s Taemin announced the first batch of dates for his upcoming 2024 ‘Ephemeral Gaze’ world tour, currently featuring 14 concerts over 10 countries across four months.It’ll kick off with a two-day concert at the end of August at the Inspire Arena in Incheon, South Korea. Thereafter, the K-pop star will bring his tour to cities across Japan, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hot from its multi-territory success with “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies,” Thai film studio GDH559 set out a powerful production and releasing slate for the coming year. Significantly, four of its next five releases have LGBT themes. Released in April, “Grandma” earned THB339 million ($9.4 million) in Thailand.

indie rockers Hitsujibungaku have shared with NME insights into their recent singles, including ‘Burning’, their brand-new ending theme to the second season of hit anime, Oshi No Ko. Read on for the interview.Spearheaded by guitarist/bandleader Moeka Shiotsuka and steadily backed by drummer Hiroa Fukuda and bassist Yurika Kasai, the band first emerged in Tokyo’s indie rock underground over the late 2010s.