ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU and BOOK OF FISH Lead Buil Film Awards Nominations

Latest Films from Ryoo Seungwan and Lee Joonik Score 8 Nods a PieceThe Buil Film Awards, one of the top Korean film industry prize events, has announced this year’s nominees ahead of its ceremony next month. Leading the pack with eight nominations apiece, out ...

KO Asung, E Som and PARK Hye-su Sign up for SAMJIN GROUP’S ENGLISH TOEIC CLASS

Korean actresses KO Asung, E Som and PARK Hye-su have signed up to appear in Samjin Group’s English TOEIC Class (translated title). The film will be the latest from director LEE Jong-pil. The narrative concerns employees who take over their company’s English c...

9 Korean Films on Deck for New York Asian Film Festival

The 18th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), which will run from June 28 to July 14 this summer, recently unveiled its lineup, which bears the tagline “Still Too Young to Die”. This year’s program will include nine titles from Korea, including a pair set to ...

KO Asung to Portray Independence Fighter YU Gwan-sun

Snowpiercer (2013) star KO Asung has selected her next film project. The actress has chosen to appear in Resistance (translated title) as the Korean independence figure YU Gwan-sun. The film will be the latest from A Million (2009) director Joe Mi-no. YU was a...

SNOWPIERCER Show Gets Season Order at TNT

An American TV adaptation of BONG Joon-ho’s sci-fi opus Snowpiercer (2013) has been ordered to series by the TNT cable channel in the United States. The series is being headlined by Requiem for a Dream star Jennifer Connelly and will also feature Daveed Diggs ...

JUNG Woo-sung & KWAK Do-won Back Together for STEEL RAIN

THE ATTORNEY Director Returns with North Korea Thriller Just a few months after sharing the screen in KIM Sung-soo’s dark thriller Asura : The City of Madness, actors JUNG Woo-sung and KWAK Do-won are set to reunite in the second film by director YANG Woo-suk,...

SUL Kyung-gu & IM Si-wan Wrap HOODLUM

Prison Thriller Completes 4 Month Shoot Incoming prison thriller Hoodlum (literal title) completed its four months production on December 10th. Financed by both CJ Entertainment and Barunson Media, the film stars veteran actor SUL Kyung-gu and newcomer IM Si-...

SNOWPIERCER TV Show Gets Pilot Order at TNT

Following news of a planned US television remake last year, BONG Joon-ho’s hit dystopian thriller Snowpiercer (2013) has now received a pilot order from American network TNT. Director BONG as well the film’s producers PARK Chan-wook, LEE Tae-hun and CHOI Doo-h...

A MELODY TO REMEMBER Sings Its way to Udine Golden Mulberry

2nd Place Prize for SORI: VOICE FROM THE HEART at Far East Film Festival The 18th edition of the Far East Film Festival in Udine wound to a close on April 29th. This year, two of the festival’s audience awards prizes went to Korean films. Korean War melodrama...

Contents Panda Showcase THE TIGER, A MELODY TO REMEMBER

EFM Films Include NO TOMORROW, MISSING YOU Period hunting drama The Tiger has been gaining attention from European buyers and festivals at the European Film Market in Berlin for its attractive pairing of Old Boy (2003) star CHOI Min-shik and New World (2013) ...