The Remake of My Sassy Girl Released, a K-movie Remake Craze in Indonesia

Korea's leading romantic comedy film My Sassy Girl was remade in Indonesia and released on June 23 (local time). ‘The girl,’ Gianna Jun played, was played by Tiara Andini, a famous idol singer in Indonesia, and Indonesian youth actor Jefri Nichol played th...

CJ Unveils 10-Picture Slate for North America

Korean film studio CJ Entertainment has revealed details of a ten-title pipeline of local-language projects being produced directly for the North American market. Among these are previously announced American remakes of the Korean hits Miss Granny (2014) and H...

CHA Tae-hyun Signs on for New Romcom

Popular Funnyman to Lead BECAUSE I LOVE YOU   Returning once again to the genre that made him a star, funny man CHA Tae-hyun has signed on for the leading role in Because I Love You (literal title), a new romantic comedy which will mark the sophomore outi...

IPTV & VOD chart | THE PIRATES Tops Chart for Four Weeks Straight

According to the weekly VOD standings of IPTV and Digital Cable TV, The Pirates was watched 92,121 times, reigning as the number one film in the standings for four consecutive weeks. In The Pirates starring SON Ye-jin, KIM Nam-gil, YOO Hae-jin, LEE Geung-youn...

FIP and Ivanhoe to Co-Finance Asian Films

Hollywood Heavyweights Invest in Korean Films Fox International Productions (FIP), which has been making inroads in Korean film production since 2010, has just signed a new deal with Ivanhoe Pictures, which will help them finance their slate of local languag...

20th Century Fox Finances 2nd Korean Film

The shooting of Slow Video (working title), produced by 20th Century Fox, kicked off on October 23rd. Slow Video is the second Korean film fully financed by the US studio after Running Man. The action thriller Running Man, a CHO Dong-oh film starring SHIN Ha-k...

Hello Ghost walks through walls, opens in China

Korean comedy <Hello Ghost> became the third South Korean film this year to get a theatrical release behind the Great Wall of distribution barriers in China when it opened Nov. 24. Mega Films, which is in charge of <Hello Ghost>’s Chinese distribu...

Yunjeong KIM, Director of International Sales, Finecut

It’s been 11 years since Yunjeong KIM at Finecut, a Seoul-based film company specializing in overseas sales and financing, has joined the Korean film industry. From her earlier days at Cineclick Asia to her current title as the Director of International Sales,...

Showbox sells Busan opening film Always to Japan

  Major Korean distributor Showbox/Mediaplex has sold SONG Il-gon’s melodrama Always, the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opening film, to Japan’s Pony Canyon.   The film tells the fatal story of a former boxer and a blind girl who fal...

Korean movies won at Fantasia Int'l Film Festival in Canada

<The Unjust> and <Night Fishing> won at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada which was held from July 14 to August 7.   The festival announced that Ryoo Seung-wan's hardboiled action film <The Unjust> was awarded b...