Following in the footsteps of CGV Cinemas and Megabox, Lotte Cinema has also raised its ticket prices in a bid to offset losses during the ongoing pandemic. The number two exhibition company in Korea also announced that it would permanently close 20% of its locations over the next two years as they tighten their operations. Lotte has announced that it will raise ticket prices by KRW 1,000 (USD 0.9...
Renowned Korean female director YIM Soon-rye is said to have finished shooting her latest film, Little Forest. Little Forest’s distributor MEGABOXissued a press release stating “the shooting of the highly anticipated film Little Forest by the renowned director YIM and featuring popular actors went through four seasons of shooting and came to a finish on October 24th.” Production company Watermelon...
LEE Joon-ik’s period drama, Anarchist from Colony has landed in the United States. The film is scheduled to have screenings in major cities in the U.S, starting with Los Angeles, California on June 29th then moving on to Orange County on June 30th and in to Dallas, Texas on July 7th. It is doing better than Okja and REAL at the domestic box office, surpassing 1.4 million viewers in only five days....