KIM Bora’s sensational debut film, the indie drama House of Hummingbird (2018), has come away with the top prize, the Best Film Award, from this year’s 6th Korean Film Producers Association Awards. BONG Joon-ho was awarded Best Director for his comedy-drama satire Parasite, which also earned prizes for Best Lighting and Best Production Design. In the acting fields, Best Actor went to JUNG Woo-sung...

BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite was the big winner at the issue of this year’s 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards, where it picked up five prizes, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (JO Yeo-jeong), Best Supporting Actress (LEE Jung-eun) and Best Production Design (LEE Ha-joon). JUNG Woo-sung was crowned Best Actor for his performance in the trial drama Innocent Witness while JO Woo-jin walked off ...

BONG Joon-ho’s latest film PARASITE was triumphant at this year’s 39th Korean Film Critics Association Awards. The Palme d’Or-winning box office hit earned awards for Best Film and Best Director, as well as Best Cinematography for director of photography HONG Kyeong-pyo. Also winning big was KIM Bora’s acclaimed debut House of Hummingbird, which took home prizes for Best New Director, Best New Act...

After months of local dominance Hollywood finally found a way to break through the ranks with Marvel’s latest tentpole Captain Marvel. Admissions were up 25% to 2.74 million while Hollywood controlled the charts with an 84% market share. Following a long dry spell for Hollywood, Captain Marvel rode in on a wave of anticipation and scored a large 2.26 million viewers (USD 18.09 million) weekend, wi...

A new Korean title opened on top of the box office while local holdovers swept up much of the remaining business in a strong weekend that welcomed 2.22 million viewers to theaters. Admissions were on par with the previous week, though slightly inflated by the March 1 Independence Movement Day holiday. Six spots in the top ten, including all of the top five, went to domestic titles, giving the loca...

Local titles continued to impress in the first quarter of 2019 as sales were down only slightly to 2.26 million while the market share for Korean films swelled to 79%. A Hollywood tentpole is sure to reverse that next month, but until then local holdovers look set to mop up the spoils. Debuting in first place was CJ Entertainment’s SVAHA : THE SIXTH FINGER, the second film from The Priests (2015) ...