Lotte Conquers Vietnamese Box Office with HAI PHUONG

Lotte Cultureworks (formerly Lotte Entertainment) has achieved a key breakthrough in the Vietnamese market with the successful release of their latest local Vietnamese production Hai Phuong, which has become the most successful R-rated film ever in the Southea...

Myanmar-Korea Film Gears Up for Production

Director Zin Yaw Maung Maung from Myanmar visited Korea on January 26 to scout locations for his upcoming film Winter’s Tale, a co-production between Korea and Myanmar. During the five days he spent in Korea, the director toured various locations in Seoul and ...

Salman KHAN to Headline Indian Version of VETERAN

RYOO Seung-wan’s smash hit action-thriller Veteran (2015) is set to be remade for the Indian market following CJ Entertainment’s Hindi remake rights sale to Reel Life Production. Superstar Salman KHAN will reportedly inhabit the lead role originally played by ...

TAKE POINT Granted Record Wide Opening in Taiwan

End-of-year action-thriller Take Point opened in Taiwan on December 28 across 85 screens, the largest release ever accorded to a Korean film in the market. This means that the explosive Korean blockbuster from director KIM Byung-woo, with HA Jung-woo in the le...

SWING KIDS to Dance Its Way into 23 Countries

KANG Hyoung-chul’s hotly anticipated fourth film Swing Kids, which is one of three major local releases timed for the end-of-year season, has been picked up for distribution in 23 foreign countries ahead of its domestic release date. Following the film’s Korea...

BURNING Takes Jury Grand Prize at ASPAs

LEE Chang-dong’s critically acclaimed sixth film BURNING has added another prize to its trophy chest after winning the Jury Grand Prize from this year’s 12th edition of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). The Cannes-premiered film took the second place awar...

THE DIVINE FURY with PARK Seo-jun Presells to 18 Countries

Jason KIM and PARK Seo-jun, the director and star combo behind last year’s smash youth cop hit Midnight Runners, are currently in production on the martial arts supernatural action-thriller The Divine Fury. Though filming is still underway, distributor Lotte E...

HOTEL BY THE RIVER Invited to Singapore IFF

Prolific auteur Hong Sangsoo’s latest work Hotel by the River has been invited to screen in the ‘Asian Vision’ section of this month’s Singapore International Film Festival. Hotel by the River had its world premiere back in August at the Locarno International ...

Korean, American and Indonesian Production Companies Team Up

CJ Entertainment and US-based Ivanhoe Pictures will co-produce 3 films from Indonesian director Joko ANWAR Korean studio CJ Entertainment, Hollywood-based Ivanhoe Pictures, and Indonesian film companies Base Entertainment and Rapi Films will work together on t...

Busan Asian Film School Recruits Fellows for 2019 International Film Business Academy

Busan Asian Film School (AFiS) is recruiting trainees for the 2019 International Film Business Academy. This 6-month course aims at providing practical education to trainees from all over Asia by inviting renowned Asian and Korean professionals of the film ind...