KOFIC Held 2022 Screenplay Contest Award Ceremony for Korean Films

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) held the ‘2022 Screenplay Contest’ Awards for Korean Films ceremony on July 22. The winner of the Grand Prize of the contest this year is Lim Eun's ‘Cham Jalhaneun Jisida.’ The jury said, "The screenplay unraveled the st...

KIM Yun-seok to Play Admiral YI Sun-shin in KIM Han-min’s NORYANG

Director KIM Han-min has rounded up a formidable cast for Noryang (Korean title), the final entry in his trilogy on the legendary Korean admiral YI Sun-shin, which started with Roaring Currents (2014), the most successful Korean film of all time. KIM Yun-seok ...

JANG Joon-hwan Teams Up with Ari ASTER for US SAVE THE GREEN PLANET Remake

Director JANG Joon-hwan is set to revisit his debut film, the cult classic Save the Green Planet (2003), after signing on to direct an English-language adaptation of the film. The film will be produced by Square Peg, the company founded by the rising star dire...

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...

YOO Hae-jin, LEE Sung-kyoung, and KIM Min-jae Starring Love+Stling Finishes Filming

Love and Wrestling Comedy to Be Released in 2018 Love Sling (working title) has finished shooting. The film is a family comedy about a love triangle involving a professional wrestler father, his son and the woman his son has a crush on, who happens to fall in ...

Production Begins on GREAT SITE with CHO Seung-woo, JI Sung and More

Distributor Megabox Plus M announced that CHO Seung-woo, JI Sung, and KIM Sung-kyun kicked off production of Great Site (translated title) on August 22nd. The period title is being directed by PARK Hee-gon and closes out a loose trilogy of Joseon Era films tha...

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...

LKFF Stages BAEK Yoon-sik Retrospective

Veteran character actor BAEK Yoon-sik will be the focus of a retrospective at the London Korean Film Festival, which kicked off its 11th edition on Thursday the 3rd of November. The program will feature five of his films, ranging from 2003’s cult classic Save ...

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...

INSIDE MEN to Infiltrate Hong Kong

Theatrical Release to Follow HKIFF Selection Following its Best Actor win for LEE Byung-hun at the Asian Film Awards in Macau and its selection for the Hong Kong International Film Festival this month, political thriller Inside Men has secured a theatrical re...