THE GOLDEN HOLIDAY Delays Release Amid New Wave COVID-19 Cases in Seoul

After months of steady increases at the box office as viewers returned to cinemas, several new clusters of COVID-19 cases have once more put distributors on alert. On Sunday, August 16, Showbox announced that it would be delaying the release of its crime-comed...

57 Nations to Take a Look at THE WITNESS

Korean thriller The Witness, one of the top-performing titles of the summer, has also become a top global seller for sales agent Contents Panda. The outfit announced that the film has been picked up for distribution in 57 territories. The first international s...

CHO Kyu-jang’s WITNESS Wraps Production

Thriller Among 3 Lead Roles for LEE Sung-min in 2018 LEE Sung-min’s latest vehicle Witness (translated title) wrapped its three-month shoot on the 20th of last month. Production for the upcoming crime-thriller took place in the South Korean border city of Paju...

ORDINARY PERSON Invited to New York, Moscow and Fukuoka

The SON Hyun-ju-led thriller ORDINARY PERSON has received a raft of festival invitations which will see it travel the globe over three continents in the next few months. Coming up in its festival itinerary will be stops at the New York Asian Film Festival, the...

THE FAULTS IN OUR STARS Scribes Sell THE BEAUTY INSIDE Pitch in Hollywood

The US remake of Korean fantasy drama The Beauty Inside (2015) has found a home at Fox 2000 and Temple Hill, after they bought a pitch from The Faults in Out Stars screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. Emilia Clarke, one of the stars of the popu...

Time Travel Drama WILL YOU BE THERE? Cranks In

French Book Adaptation Stars KIM Yun-seok and BYUN Yo-han Will You Be There?, a Korean adaptation of the book by French author Guillaume Musso, began production on March 22nd. Veteran star KIM Yun-Seok, last seen in hit exorcism thriller The Priests (2015), l...

THE TIGER Sells to North America

Period Action-Drama Whips Up Buyer Excitement at AFM CHOI Min-shik returns to screens next month when The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale opens in Korea and it seems that North American audiences won’t have to wait too long for their chance to see the period ...

CHOI Min-sik’s THE TIGER

NEW Slates Period Drama for December 17 The Tiger, the latest film featuring veteran Korean star CHOI Min-shik, ended its five and a half month shoot on May 29th and has been slated by distributor Next Entertainment World (NEW) for a confident December 17th...

CHOI Min-sik’s The Tiger Begins Shooting

Period Hunting Film Aims for Late 2015 Release Hot off the dizzying success of period naval war blockbuster Roaring Currents, which has netted him Best Actor accolades from the Korean Association of Film Critics and the Grand Bell (Daejong) Film Awards, CHOI ...

20 Actors Cast for One Single Lead Character for BEAUTY INSIDE

The melodrama with a new imagination casts nearly all of Korea’s best characters actors Nearly all of Korea’s best character actors will star in the melodrama with a new imagination. An unprecedented 20 actors will play one single character in the film. Beaut...