HITMAN: AGENT JUN Director Returns with Romantic ComedyKwon Sangwoo and Moon Chaewon are teaming up for the upcoming romantic comedy We Grow Up. The film, which is scheduled to go into production in July, will reteam Kwon with Director Choi Wonsub, the pair having worked together on last year’s hit Lunar New Year action-comedy HITMAN: AGENT JUN.We Grow Up is a remake of the Argentinian film No Kid...

Miracle (translated title), a new 1980s-set drama featuring top stars Yoon-a, PARK Jung-min and LEE Sung-min, began principal photography on August 2. The film is the latest from Be With You (2018) director LEE Jang-hoon, and joining the three stars who were already linked to the project is actress LEE Su-gyeong. Based on a real story, Miracle will take place in 1986 and follows the story of the m...

SON Ye-jin and LEE Sun-kyun have received offers to star alongside Avatar star Sam WORTHINGTON in the upcoming film Cross from Hollywood director Andrew NICCOL. Cross will take place in the future in a multiracial country which is divided by a border that separates it into a rich side and a poor one. SON’s character is a woman on the poor side who becomes a single mother when her husband dies duri...

Despite a major new tent-pole opening following a week that was dominated by holdovers, business dropped around 20% as admissions reached just 1.88 million. The local industry also lost its market advantage, with its share dropping to 29%. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second installment in the Warner Bros Harry Potter prequel series, had little trouble topping the weekend box o...

Despite a major new local release hoping to drum up sales, the pre-Chuseok weekend was a quiet one at the big office with a third-week release topping the charts and sales dipping again to 1.34 million admissions. The local industry rallied to 47% but still fell short of Hollywood’s 51% market share. After climbing to the first rank last weekend, the sleeper hit Searching defied the odds to hang o...

The Korean box office ended on a bang last year when December delivered by far the best results for Korean and overall sales for the month since records began. Some of that momentum carried through into the early weeks of 2018, but the first quarter of the year has been one of highs and lows, as a strong January was followed by a disappointing Lunar New Year holiday season in February, while March...