Sophomore Film from GANG Director JO Ba-reun JIN Jung-woo, AHN Ji-hye, LEE Min-ji and CHO Sun-ki have signed on to star in the film Slate (literal title), the sophomore film of GANG (2019) director JO Ba-reun. Slate will follow the story of an actor who dreams of becoming a leading man, until one day, while on set, he finds himself transported into the parallel world of a film in which he plays a ...

Actors KIM Sang-kyung, HEO Seong-tae, PARK Sun-young and KIM Dong-young have assembled for the upcoming period noir mystery-thriller Namsan, Poet Murder Incident (translated title). From director KO Myoung-sung, the film kicked off production on September 15. Set shortly after the end of the Korean War in 1953 in the Myeongdong neighborhood of Seoul, Namsan, Poet Murder Incident follows a criminal...

The Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed its third wave of programming to complete its program announcements for this year’s 22nd edition. The Montreal-based genre film festival has invited 24 films from Korea, including 15 feature films and 9 shorts. Featuring in this years’ ‘Cheval Noir’ competition will be PARK Hoon-jung’s latest film The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion. Having its i...

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...

GONJIAM: HAUNTED ASYLUM Enters Top 5 with Paid Previews Despite the first place debut of a major Hollywood franchise title, the local industry maintained its market advantage by claiming 53% of sales, as domestic titles occupied four of the top five spots on the chart during a weekend that welcomed 1.69 million viewers to theaters. Entering the charts in first place with the sci-fi action film Pac...

A pair of new Korean romantic titles elevated the local market share to 78% at the Korean box office as business remained level with last week with 1.54 million tickets sold during another slow March session. Topping the chart with 683,000 sales (USD 5.36 million) over the weekend and 881,000 entries (USD 6.76 million) since its Wednesday debut was the fantasy romantic vehicle Be With You with SON...