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- 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 Gold Medal for Cinematography for Lee Euita...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 30, 2021
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- 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-comedy The Golden Holiday, which had been sch...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 01, 2020
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- 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 of Beauty Inside will feature a major swi...
- by Christopher Weatherspoon / Nov 23, 2017
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- 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 (2015). The film takes place in Busan’s cr...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 10, 2017
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- 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 New Select, while My Way Film Company boug...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 02, 2017
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- 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 popular HBO series Game of Thrones, is attac...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 02, 2017
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- 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 cast will be KIM Dae-myeong, KIM Sung-k...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 25, 2017
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- 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 book for Toho in 2010. In the film, GANG ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 27, 2016