Director CHOI Dong-hoon to Return with Simultaneously Filmed 2-Part Sci-Fi Film

Director CHOI Dong-hoon is reportedly close to getting his next film underway, which will be a simultaneously filmed two-part sci-fi film featuring aliens. RYU Jun-yeol and KIM Tae-ri have been confirmed for both instalments of the series, while bothGianna JUN...

ASSASSINATION Tops 2nd Korean Film Producers Association Awards

RYOO Seung-wan Picks up Best Director Prize for VETERAN Following its Best Film win at the Blue Dragon Awards last month, CHOI Dong-hoon’s Colonial Era action-thriller Assassination has come up tops again, picking up the Best Film Award at the 2nd edition of ...

Production on CHOI Dong-hoon’s ASSASSINATION Wraps

Period Thriller Expected for Summer Release   On January 31st, CHOI Dong-hoon completed filming of his next big-budget thriller, Assassination. Featuring stars HA Jung-woo, JUN Ji-hyun and LEE Jung-jae, the period film looks to be one of this summer’s big...

CHOI Dong-hoon Plots ASSASSINATION

HA Jung-woo, Gianna JUN and LEE Jung-jae Ready for Production Hitmaker CHOI Dong-hoon has finalized casting for his highly anticipated fifth feature Assassination, which will begin production this month in Shanghai. Joining him in China will be his The Thieve...

THE THIEVES Becomes a Hit in Its 1st Week in China

Director and Cast met local audiences The most popular Korean film, The Thieves opened across China on January 15th. The Chinese importer of the film, Lava Film said, the film opened at 3,000 Chinese screens and brought in 18.6 million Chinese Yuan (about 2....

BYUN Young-joo Selected as the Woman Filmmaker of 2012

LIM Soo-jung wins best actress award Director BYUN Young-joo has been selected as the woman filmmaker of the year by Women In Film Korea. The association announced its list of this year's award recipients including LIM Soo-jung for the Best Actress cat...

Exciting Start to the Paris Korean Film Festival!

Tickets sold out at the online box office on Fnac website! After the 7th Korean Film Festival in Paris (Festival du Film Coréen à Paris, FFCP) started sales of tickets at the on-line booking service website (www.fnacspectacles.com), it took only 3 days that ...

New History Made

The Thieves replaces the best selling record of Korean film The Thieves finally topped Korean box office. By drawing 13,029,393 viewers to theaters, The Thieves beat The Host, the previous title holder that was loved by 13,019,740 viewers in 2006. While it t...