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- Celebrating the Genre Movie Festival for 11 Days, the 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) Has Opened
- The 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival held its opening ceremony at 7 p.m. on July 7 at the Grass Square of Bucheon City Hall. It was the first face-to-face opening ceremony in 3 years, hosted by Actors Park Byungeun and Han Sunhwa. Chung Jiyoung, Chairperson of the Organizing Commit...
- by Park Hyejin / Jul 08, 2022
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- Director and Actor Koo Hyesun’s DARK YELLOW, Invited to the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia Competition
- DARK YELLOW, a short directed by Actor Koo Hyesun, has been selected as the Official Competition supported by Sony Asia International Competition at the 24th Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia is held annually in Japan and is largely divided into the categor...
- by Park Hyejin / Jun 03, 2022
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- BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE Wraps Production
- Following a pair of high profile English-language projects, director BONG Joon-ho has returned to home ground for his seventh project, the Korean language Parasite. The film reunited him with SONG Kang-ho, and also features LEE Sun-kyun, JO Yeo-jung, PARK So-dam and CHOI Woo-sik. Distributor CJ Ente...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 29, 2018
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- OKJA Takes Foreign Language Film Prizes from Austin and North Carolina Critics
- BONG Joon-ho’s Netflix-backed Okja has earned a pair of Best Foreign Language Film Prizes from both the Austin and North Carolina Film Critics Associations. In North Carolina, the big-budget eco-adventure with AHN Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano beat out titles such as Ruben Ö...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 18, 2018
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- OKJA Lands on Rotten Tomatoes’ Best Sci-fi/Fantasy Films of 2017
- BONG Joon-ho’s Netflix Fantasy Scores 4th Place Rank BONG Joon-ho’s Netflix-backed fantasy adventure Okja has been selected by review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes as one of its Best Sci-fi/Fantasy films of 2017. The film ranked fourth in the five-title list. Starring AHN Seo-hyun, Tilda Swint...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 10, 2018
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- OKJA Included in Academy Awards VFX Shortlist
- BONG Joon-ho’s Netflix-backed Okja has landed on the shortlist for the visual effects category for the upcoming 90th edition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Awards, to take place on March 4th. The 10-film list will be whittled down by the executive committee of the academ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 29, 2017
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- Macao Takes A DAY and THE OUTLAWS for Flying Daggers
- The International Film Festival and Awards Macao (IFFAM), which kicks off its second edition on December 8th, will feature three films from Korea. JO Seon-ho’s A Day and KANG Yun-sung’s The OUTLAWS, both debut films, will screen in IFFAM’s ‘Flying Daggers’ section, while BONG Joon-ho’s Netlfix-backe...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 01, 2017
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- Netflix to Re-release OKJA to Select Theaters in the U.S.
- Fans of Okja (2017) were greeted with a message on the film’s official Facebook page: "Missing your super pig best friend? You’re in luck. OKJA will be re-released in select U.S. theaters on November 3. Don't miss out!” Okja is about the friendship between a young girl named Mija (Ahn Seo-hy...
- by Christopher Weatherspoon / Nov 20, 2017
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- BONG Joon-ho Among Metacritic’s Best Directors of the 21st Century
- Review aggregator website Metacritic recently published a list of the 25-best reviewed filmmakers of the 21st century to date. Okja director BONG Joon-ho made it onto the ranking, where he was tied at number 13 with an average rating of 81.2. Metacritic collates reviews of general releases in the Un...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 07, 2017
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- VANITY FAIR Rates OKJA Among Best of 2017
- Released on June 28th in 190 markets, BONG Joon-ho’s latest film was available just in time to be considered for half-year best of lists and has landed on several, including ‘The Best Movies and TV Shows of 2017, So Far’ feature in Vanity Fair. Okja was featured on the unranked ten-title list, along...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 17, 2017