VOICE OF SILENCE Wins Top Prize at Fantasia Film Festival

Yoo Ahin Awarded Best Actor for Acclaimed Black Comedy in CanadaVoice of Silence (2020), the acclaimed debut film of director Hong Euijeong, has triumphed at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where it picked up two awards. The black comedy earn...

Yu Jaemyeong Joins Lee Sunkyun and Jo Jungsuk in LAND OF HAPPINESS

MASQUERADE Director Returns with New Military-Themed Mystery(From the left) Yu Jaemyeong, Lee Sunkyun, Jo JungsukChoo Changmin’s new film Land of Happiness (translated title) is beginning to shape up as Yu Jaemyeong has become the latest name to join a cast th...

24 Korean Films to Screen at Fantasia, including THE DEVIL’S DEAL Premiere

Cho Jinwoong’s Debut Short as Director to Screen at North American Genre FestivalThe Devil’s Deal (2021)24 Korean films, including eight features and 16 shorts, are set to screen at next month’s 25th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montr...

Fantasia Announces Final Wave, Confirming 15 Korean Titles

Last week, the Fantasia International Film Festival revealed its third and final wave of programming for this year’s 24th edition, which will take place exclusively online from August 20 to September 2. The Korean thriller Bring Me Home (2019) has been added t...

KWAK Do-won, JOO Won and YU Jae-myeong Dress Up for FIREMAN

Veteran filmmaker KWAK Kyung-taek, known for Friend (2001), one of the original Korean blockbusters, is deep in preparations for his 15th film, titled Fireman (translated title). KWAK has assembled a top-drawer cast, which will be headlined by KWAK Do-won, JOO...

ALIEN with KIM Tae-ri, RYU Jun-yeol and KIM Woo-bin Begins Production Following Slight Covid-19 Delay

CHOI Dong-hoon’s upcoming two-part blockbuster Alien (translated title) kicked off shooting on March 28. Production had originally been scheduled for earlier in the month but was delayed due to mounting safety concerns surrounding the Covid-19 public health cr...

BRING ME HOME Heads to Göteborg

The recent Korean thriller Bring Me Home (2019), the big screen comeback project for Korean star LEE Young-ae, has been invited to screen at the Göteborg Film Festival in Sweden, where it will take part in the Ingmar Bergman Competition. The project, which is ...

LEE Sung-min and YU Jae-myeong Go Head-to-Head in Search of BEAST

LEE Sung-min and YU Jae-myeong have signed on to star in Beast (working title), a new project that will be financed and distributed by Next Entertainment World (N.E.W.). Handling the directing reins will be LEE Jeong-ho. The film will tell the story of two det...

BAE Doo-na Confirmed for 6-episode Netflix Drama Series Kingdom

BAE Doo-na has been confirmed to star in a 6-episode Neflix drama. Representative from BAE’s agency, SBD Entertainment, confirmed on October 12 that “BAE has selected Kingdom as her next project and the shooting will commence soon.” Kingdom is a zombie thrille...