Project Wolf Hunting, Pre-sold to 41 Countries Globally

Project Wolf Hunting has been pre-sold to 41 countries around the world, including Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia, India, the United States, and Japan. It is also attracting attention from Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina, and the United Kingdom. Especially...

PSYCHOKINESIS Leads NEW Triple Sale to Netflix

Through their international sales arm Contents Panda, Korean studio Next Entertainment World (NEW) has sealed a new deal with global online content provider Netflix that will see its next three major titles made available on the streaming platform in 2018. The...

Contents Panda Brings Ghosts, Spies and Assassins to Cannes

Contents Panda, which presented YEON Sang-ho’s Train to Busan in Cannes last year, is back on Croisette with a film in the Midnight Screenings section and a trove of new titles for sale in the market. In addition to JUNG Byung-gil’s Cannes action title The Vil...

IM Chang-jung Takes a ROMAN HOLIDAY

Singer and actor IM Chang-jung has selected his next film project, which will be the thriller Roman Holiday, which is unrelated to Hollywood classic of the same name. Production kicks off this month with a quick release planned for next May. IM will play the l...

BAEK Yoon-sik and SUNG Dong-il Dive into ARIDONG

Save the Green Planet (2003) star BAEK Yoon-sik is teaming up with fellow Korean film industry veteran SUNG Dong-il for Aridong, a new investigative thriller from director KIM Hong-sun of The Con Artists (2014). The film is based on a popular webtoon called Ar...

Young Stars Line Up for KIM Hong-sun’s BROKER

IM Ju-hwan, LEE Sung-kyoung, KIM Young-kwang Join Legal Thriller Following the success of The Con Artists last year, director KIM Hong-sun is set to return with legal thriller Broker. The film has cast a trio of young leads, IM Ju-hwan, LEE Sung-kyoung and KI...

Rendezvous for IM Chang-jung and Daniel CHOI

Detective Duo Cracks Down on Corrupt Religious Groups     IM Chang-jung and Daniel CHOI, the two leads from Traffickers (2012), are getting together again for a new detective film, Chi-wae Beop-kwon (working title) which translates as extraterritoria...

KIM Woo-bin and LEE Hyun-woo Become The Con Artists

Young Stars Headline New KIM Hong-sun FeatureFilmmaker KIM Hong-sun is returning to the director’s chair with his sophomore film The Technicians, following his 2012 debut Traffickers. Headlining his new film will be popular young stars KIM Woo-bin and LEE Hyun...

8 Korean Films on AFFD Menu

Country’s Best on Show in Dallas Korean film will be particularly prominent during this year’s Asian Film Festival Dallas. One of the premiere showcases for Asian cinema in North America, the festival is supported by Well Go USA Entertainment, the top Asian fi...

Korean Film Commissions Support Domestic and Foreign Films

Many Korean films are shot on location these days and quite a number of foreign productions are being shot in Korea as well. International co-production have become far more commonplace. Let’s take a look to see how Korean film commissions such as the Busan Fi...