After being delayed from its usual March slot by this year’s COVID-19 pandemic, the Florence Korea Film Fest is set to return for its 18th edition between September 23 and 30. The festival will open with BLACK MONEY (2019) and will feature a special focus on the film’s star CHO Jin-woong. Closing the festival will be the thriller Bring Me Home (2019), the comeback project of star LEE Young-ae. Bey...

Last week, the Fantasia International Film Festival revealed its third and final wave of programming for this year’s 24th edition, which will take place exclusively online from August 20 to September 2. The Korean thriller Bring Me Home (2019) has been added to the lineup, which now counts 15 Korean films, among them six features. Bring Me Home, the first feature film role for screen legend LEE Yo...

Veteran filmmaker KWAK Kyung-taek, known for Friend (2001), one of the original Korean blockbusters, is deep in preparations for his 15th film, titled Fireman (translated title). KWAK has assembled a top-drawer cast, which will be headlined by KWAK Do-won, JOO Won and YU Jae-myeong and also feature LEE Yoo-young, KIM Min-jae, OH Dae-hwan, LEE Jun-hyuk and JANG Young-nam. Plot details are scarce, b...

Business slowed 25% after last week’s massive boost but the latest Disney behemoth remained a potent threat on the charts as a major new local title was unable to break through as counter-programming. Sales remained strong with 3.34 million tickets sold while the domestic industry was once again on the defensive, claiming just 18% of those. Following last weekend’s massive debut, which represented...

Disney returned to the top charts with one of the largest debuts in history as their latest animation dominated theaters across the country. All told, business jumped almost 150% as 4.45 million tickets were snatched up over the weekend, though the local industry took a back seat as its take fell to just 12%. Coming three years after Frozen, one of only seven foreign films to cross ten million adm...