Korean Sales Companies Busy on the Croisette
Korean foreign sales outfits are out in force at the Marché du Film, taking place alongside the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. Among them,
9ers Entertainment, which is handling Cannes midnight selection
Office, has picked up rights to a pair of new titles, and
M-Line Distribution scored a raft of sales on their upcoming high concept comedy
Wonderful Nightmare.
In addition to Office, 9ers picked in international rights to
KIM Sang-jin’s new comedy
Three Summer Night, featuring three men, played by
KIM Dong-wook,
LIM Won-hee and
SON Ho-jun, on a rambunctious weekend getaway to Busan, and KIM Whi’s upcoming supernatural horror
The Chosen: Forbidden Cave, featuring
KIM Sung-kyun as a psychologist investigating a mother (
YOO Sun) and daughter who appear to be possessed.
Armed with the star wattage of
UHM Jeong-hwa and
SONG Seung-heon, M-Line’s
Wonderful Nightmare (known as
Miss Wife in Korea) secured sales to markets such as Australia (Cine Asia), The Philippines (Viva Communications) and Myanmar (Mega Movie Technology), while Emphasis bought inflight rights. The film, which tells of a successful lawyer who dies and comes back as a housewife, will bow domestically in July. Also on M-Line’s slate are
IM Sang-soo’s Fox International Productions title
Intimate Enemies with
RYOO Seung-bum, the action comedy
Untouchable Lawmen, featuring
IM Chang-jung and
Daniel CHOI, and the medical horror
The Black Hand.