Director Shin Jungwon Passes Away at Age 47

Night of the Undead (2020)Shin Jungwon, the director known for horror comedies such as To Catch a Virgin Ghost (2004) and last year’s Night of the Undead (2020), has died at the age of 46. He passed away suddenly of acute sepsis related to liver cirrhosis on D...

PENINSULA Is Top-Performing Foreign Film at the Japanese Box Office

YEON Sang-ho’s hit zombie sequel Peninsula opened in cinemas in Japan on January 1, where it reached seventh place on the charts for four consecutive days, making it the top-performing non-Japanese film on the charts. It pushed down the Warner Bros tentpole Wo...

PARK Chan-wook’s DECISION TO LEAVE Begins Shoot This Month

TANG Wei and PARK Hae-il Headline Latest from Korean Maestro Following his recent John LE CARRE adaptation The Little Drummer Girl for the BBC, master Korean filmmaker PARK Chan-wook is about to return to set for a new Korean project. Decision to Leave, which...

NIGHT OF THE UNDEAD Scares Up Asian Sales

Night of the Undead, a new sci-fi comedy that was released during the Chuseok holidays in Korea, is also gaining attention overseas after production company The Contents ON revealed that the film’s international sales agent Finecut had sealed distribution deal...

PENINSULA is 2020’s Biggest Global Summer Hit

Office Peninsula, the big-budget sequel to YEON Sang-ho’s international hit TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016), has been taking the global box office by storm this summer. Distributor Next Entertainment World has confirmed that the film has sold over USD 48 million worth ...

PENINSULA Sets August 7 Launch in North America

YEON Sang-ho’s Train to Busan (2016) sequel Peninsula has just opened in several Asian markets and is now set to invade North America, where local distributor Well Go USA has announced that it will be released on August 7. Part of this year’s Cannes selection,...

PENINSULA Set to Launch in 185 Countries

Peninsula, the highly anticipated sequel to YEON Sang-ho’s global phenomenon TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016), is poised to be another breakthrough success after foreign sale agent Contents Panda announced that the film has been presold to 185 countries across the globe....

Cannes Taps PENINSULA and HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS for Official Lineup

Though the festival will not take place this year owing to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival announced its 73rd official selection on the evening of June 3rd. Among the 56 titles for this unusual 2020 edition, which features no sections, ...

LEE Jung-hyun to Push Herself to the LIMIT

LEE Jung-hyun has signed on to appear in the kidnap-themed crime thriller Limit (literal title), the new film from The Spy: Undercover Operation (2013) director LEE Seung-jun. The star will play police officer So-eun who goes undercover to help parents locate ...

HAN Hyo-joo and LEE Jong-hyuk Join USA Networks-Amazon Series

HAN Hyo-joo and LEE Jong-hyuk are the latest Korean stars to make the move to Hollywood after having been cast in the currently in-production USA Networks series Treadstone, which will be distributed globally by Amazon Studios. The series is a spin-off of the ...