THE BOOK OF FISH Sweeps Golden Cinematography Awards with 5 Prizes

Lee Joonik’s latest film The Book of Fish was the big winner at this year’s 41st Golden Cinematography Awards, an event staged annually by the Korean Society of Cinematographers. The black and white period drama earned the Best Picture Award as well as the Gol...

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...

BEAUTY INSIDE makes the Switch to Small Screen

BAEK Jong-yeol’s 2015 romantic comedy Beauty Inside is set to be adapted into a television drama. In the movie, Yi-soo (HAN Hyo-joo) falls in love with Woo-jin (KIM Dae-myeong), a man that wakes up in a different body every day. However, the TV drama version o...

BAE Doo-na Partners with DRUG KING SONG Kang-ho

Global star BAE Doo-na has joined the crime drama Drug King as the female lead opposite previously cast male star SONG Kang-ho. JO Jung-suk has also joined the cast of director WOO Min-ho’s follow up to his smash hit political corruption thriller Inside Men (2...

BLUEBEARD Notches Global Sales

Lotte Entertainment’s new thriller Bluebeard, which just opened in first place at the Korean box office, has been snatched up for distribution by several companies around the world. Well Go USA has taken the rights for North America, Japanese rights went to Ne...

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...

YOON Kye-sang Readies for GOLDEN SLUMBER

Golden Slumber, the Korean adaptation of the Japanese novel by ISAKA Kotaro of the same name, has added YOON Kye-sang to its cast. The actor joins previously announced leads GANG Dong-won and HAN Hyo-joo in the NOH Dong-seok-directed thriller. Also joining the...

GANG Dong-won & HAN Hyo-joo Headline Thriller GOLDEN SLUMBER

GANG Dong-won and HAN Hyo-joo have signed on to star in the Korean film version of the Japanese novel Golden Slumber by ISAKA Kotaro. The thriller will be the fourth film by director NOH Dong-seok. NAKAMURA Yoshihiro previously made a Japanese version of the b...