Stars Return to Busan Film Festival for Opening Ceremony of 26th Edition

BIFF Honors Im Kwontaek, Hosts World Premiere of Im Sangsoo’sHEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESSThis year’s 26th Busan International Film Festival kicked off with a star-studded opening ceremony on a warm night at the Korean Cinema Center on Wednesday, October 6,...

14th Network of Asian Fantastic Film to Welcome 40 Projects

BiFan’s Project Market Welcomes Series for First TimeThe Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) will return this summer for its 14th edition, which will take place during the 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). The event will once agai...

TAKE POINT Granted Record Wide Opening in Taiwan

End-of-year action-thriller Take Point opened in Taiwan on December 28 across 85 screens, the largest release ever accorded to a Korean film in the market. This means that the explosive Korean blockbuster from director KIM Byung-woo, with HA Jung-woo in the le...

NAFF Presents IT Project Participants for 2018

Last week, the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) announced the participants of its four segments this year, led by 17 selections for the IT Project. NAFF will also host four Indian teams for its ‘Project Spotlight’, a trio for ‘Nordic Genre Invasion’ and...

CJ Entertainment Ventures onto the Croisette with THE SPY GONE NORTH

Korea’s CJ Entertainment returns to the official selection at Cannes for the fourth year on the trot with their upcoming North Korea-themed espionage drama The Spy Gone North (2017). Meanwhile, the company is also busy on the Marché floor with a heavy lineup o...

Florence Korean Film Fest to Stage HA Jung-woo Retrospective and Masterclass

The 16th Florence Korean Film Fest will open its doors on March 22 and screen 25 features and several shorts until it concludes on March 30. This year’s edition will also include a retrospective on films featuring popular star HA Jung-woo. HWANG Dong-hyuk will...

CJ Takes TAKE POINT to Market in Berlin

Top Korean distributor CJ Entertainment is repping an explosive lineup at the European Film Market (EFM) this year, led by their upcoming military action Take Point, as well as several recent hits and local language titles for foreign markets. Reuniting direct...

LEE Sun-kyun Joins THE TERROR, LIVE Team for PMC

KIM Byung-woo and HA Jung-woo, the director and star duo behind the 2013 smash The Terror, LIVE, are teaming up again for rescue thriller PMC. Joining HA on screen will be LEE Sun-kyun. PMC, which stands for private military company, focuses on a group of mili...

KWAK Kyung-taek’s Thriller RESURRECTION Has Begun Production

A Vengeful Story Featuring KIM Rae-won, KIM Hae-sook and SUNG Dong-il KWAK Kyung-taek of Friend (2001) and The Classified File (2015) has begun production of a new film. Resurrection (working title), a mystery thriller where CHOI Myung-sook, a woman who died 7...

MADONNA Picks Golden Orchid in Hawaii

Renaissance Award for HA Jung-woo SHIN Su-won’s third feature Madonna, which debuted in the Un Certain Regard lineup of the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, has won the Halekulani Golden Orchid for Best Narrative Feature at the 35th Hawaii Internationa...