HAN Hyo-joo and LEE Jong-hyuk are the latest Korean stars to make the move to Hollywood after having been cast in the currently in-production USA Networks series Treadstone, which will be distributed globally by Amazon Studios. The series is a spin-off of the popular Bourne film franchise. Connected to the five-part Bourn film series, starting with the Matt DAMON-starring The Bourne Identity in 20...

Business shot up 150% as the Lunar New Year celebrations got underway, with 3.72 million admissions counted over the three-day weekend, with business spilling over into Monday, which is also a holiday. With three major local releases launched for the festivities, the domestic industry accounted for a roaring 91% of all sales. WOO Min-ho’s political drama The Man Standing Next gave LEE Byung-hun hi...

Disney once again scored a top place opening at the box office, but with much less fanfare than usual, during a quiet weekend that saw a 15% decline from the previous session’s holdover-led chart. A total of 1.47 million admissions were collected, with the local share dipping to 31%, though that should rebound significantly this coming weekend. The fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil may h...

With a lack of enticing new releases, holdovers claimed most of the top five as overall admissions slid around 35% to 1.68 million. Of those, 41% were snatched up by local titles, mostly in their second or third week in theaters. Remaining in first place was the dark DC Comics origin story Joker, which lost just 41% of its opening weekend audience as it filled another 768,000 seats (USD 5.71 milli...