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- Kevin HART Boards Hollywood SUNNY Remake as Producer
- Hollywood actor Kevin HART (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) has signed on to produce the American remake of KANG Hyoung-chul’s hit period youth drama Sunny (2011), which will be known as Bye Bye Bye. The actor’s company HartBeat Productions, along with CJ Entertainment, the Korean major that was res...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 07, 2018
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- Stan LEE’s Story Idea Being Developed into Korean Superhero Series
- A superhero TV show drawn from an idea by the late comic book pioneer Stan LEE is being developed in Korea. The B-Team, which assembles several second-rank superhero characters in a story about how they end up fighting with the mad scientist who created them, is being written by noted Korean drama s...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 07, 2018
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- HOTEL BY THE RIVER Sweeps Gijón Film Festival Awards
- Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo’s latest work was the standout film at the 56th Gijón International Film Festival (FICX) in Northern Spain, where it earned a trio of awards, including the top prize, the Principado de Asturias Prize for Best Feature Film. Hong’s second film of the year, following Grass wh...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 07, 2018
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- Special Jury Prize for JANG Woo-jin at Nantes
- JANG Woo-jin’s third film Winter’s Night, which debuted as one of this year’s feature-length Jeonju Cinema Projects at the Jeonju International Film Festival in the spring, has picked up the Special Jury Prize from the 40th edition of the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. Set in JANG’s hom...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 06, 2018
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- 1987 Comes Out on Top at Blue Dragon Awards
- JANG Joon-hwan’s political drama 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) topped the 39th edition of the Blue Dragon Film Awards, which took place in Seoul on November 23 during a ceremony hosted by stars KIM Hye-soo and YOO Yeon-seok. Other top prizes went to YOON Jong-bin, who earned Best Director for his ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 06, 2018
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- MOON So-ri Earns Career Achievement Award in Hawaii
- Veteran performer MOON So-ri was recently honored at the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF), where she was given the 2018 Halekulani Career Achievement Award. The star has been a leading figure of the Korean film industry for almost 20 years and recently turned her hand to directing. MOON deb...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 29, 2018
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- THE REMNANTS Takes Busan Film Critics Grand Prize
- The documentary The Remnants (2016), from directors KIM Il-ran and LEE Hyuk-sang, has picked up the Grand Prize at the Busan Film Critics Association Awards. E Som was given the Best Actress Award for her role in JEON Go-woon’s Microhabitat, while PARK Jung-min took home the Best Actor Prize for LEE...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 29, 2018
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- OH Ha-nee Picks Up Best Actress at FirstGlance Philadelphia
- Actress OH Ha-nee has picked up the Best Actress prize at the recent 21st edition of the FirstGlance Film Festival Philadelphia for her role in the short film Eve. The film was nominated in for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Sound Design and Best Special Effects at the festival, tri...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 29, 2018
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- KO Asung to Portray Independence Fighter YU Gwan-sun
- Snowpiercer (2013) star KO Asung has selected her next film project. The actress has chosen to appear in Resistance (translated title) as the Korean independence figure YU Gwan-sun. The film will be the latest from A Million (2009) director Joe Mi-no. YU was an important figure of the Korean resista...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 28, 2018
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- BTS Concert Film Scores Event Film Global Record
- In addition to conquering the charts worldwide, the sensationally popular Korean pop group BTS has put their mark on the film industry by setting a new event film global opening record following the international debut of their concert film. According to distributor Trafalgar Releasing, Burn the Sta...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 28, 2018
