Celine Song Directorial Debut to Co-Star Greta LeeRising star Yoo Teo has landed the leading role in the upcoming project Past Lives, in which he will appear alongside Greta Lee. From debut filmmaker Celine Song, the film will be produced by A24, the acclaimed Hollywood indie studio behind Minari, Midsommar, and the currently on release The Green Knight, as well as the Korean studio CJ ENM. Outfit...

Actors RYU Seung-ryong and PARK Hae-joon have joined forces on the upcoming comedy Jung’s Farm (working title). From first-time director KIM Ji-yeon, the film entered production on January 22. The actors are playing brothers who don’t act as though they’re particularly close, even though they raise cows together. RYOO was cast as the stern older brother Man-soo while PARK is playing the happy-go-l...

CHUNG Ji-young’s Black Money (2019) took home the top prize from this year’s 7th Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA) Awards. The film also triumphed in the Best Actor category, won by CHO Jin-woong. KIM Hee-ae earned the Best Actress prize for her role in LIM Dae-hyung’s drama Moonlit Winter (2019). Best Director was won by WOO Min-ho for his political drama The Man Standing Next, which also ...

Business slowed 25% after last week’s massive boost but the latest Disney behemoth remained a potent threat on the charts as a major new local title was unable to break through as counter-programming. Sales remained strong with 3.34 million tickets sold while the domestic industry was once again on the defensive, claiming just 18% of those. Following last weekend’s massive debut, which represented...

Disney returned to the top charts with one of the largest debuts in history as their latest animation dominated theaters across the country. All told, business jumped almost 150% as 4.45 million tickets were snatched up over the weekend, though the local industry took a back seat as its take fell to just 12%. Coming three years after Frozen, one of only seven foreign films to cross ten million adm...

Local films continued to drum up solid business, as a new champion and holdovers gave the Korean industry a 74% edge. All told, 1.82 million tickets were sold over the past frame, a figure that will rise significantly this coming weekend as one of the biggest films of the year opens in a few days. Veteran filmmaker CHUNG Ji-young has returned to theatres seven years after National Security with th...