Tidigare finns ju Hollywood, Bollywood och vårt eget Trollywood.
Nu finns det långt framskridna planer att bygga en filmstad i Chiang-Mai med namnet CNXWood.
Det göteborgsbaserade svenska spelföretaget "Mindark" är en av intressenterna.
Man får verkligen hoppas att detta medför att de undermåliga tele- och datanäten blir uppgraderade.
Skall bli spännande och följa detta.
Saxat ur Chiang-Mail Mail:
"It is hoped that Chiang Mai will become CNXWood or the new Hollywood East as Creative Kingdom, a U.S.-based film and music production and animation firm kicked off construction of the Bt20-billion Chiang Mai Movie Town Project, or CNXWood.Major foreign investors from South Africa, the Philippines, the Middle East and Korea hold 49 per cent of the group. But some local investors have changed as a result of the relocation from Mae Rim. Some land owners have also joined the project.
The group says the entire development will be worth US$617 million (Bt20 billion) on 1,500 square rai. The first phrase starts this year on 200 square rai, which will consist mainly of studios and residences.
The White House Studio Complex, in the first phase of the project, will include state of the art studios with a full range of sound stages and post-production facilities. The group expects the development to attract representative offices from the major Hollywood studios and believes it will eventually become a thriving nexus of the international film-making market in Southeast Asia. The complex is set to be complete by the end of 2012.
They also hope to attract game production by providing a high-tech infrastructure that will attract the world’s major IT and game production companies to set up facilities in CNXWood. The Board of Investment (BoI) has already approved the three-studio plan. This approval is now in the process for other parts to cover wider aspects of the overall project.
The Chiang Mai film production company Living Films, Southeast Asia’s leading media provider to the Hollywood studios; Swedish game production company Mindark, producers of the Entropia Universe MMORPG game; American game producers Digital Scryers; and Dabok, a Korean TV and film production company have already expressed interest in becoming some of the first companies to establish offices at CNXWood"
