Jeon Somin, Kim Jiyoung and Shin Eunjung Join New Social Issues DramaDebut actress Hong Yeji has been tapped to lead Girl (translated title), the new film by director Mo Hongjin. Also, cast in the project are veteran actresses Jeon Somin, Kim Jiyoung and Shin Eunjung.Written by Mo and Yoo Dayoung, Girl will feature Hong as the 19-year-old Yoonyoung, who finds herself imprisoned after becoming invo...

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...

A bevy of Korean stars are ready to set sail on The Pirates: Goblin Flag (translated title), the sequel to the 2014 hit The Pirates. KANG Han-neul, HAN Hyo-joo, LEE Kwang-soo and KWON Sang-woo lead an ensemble in a film with a whole new story and set of characters. KANG Ha-neul, who hasn’t been seen on the big screen in a leading role since enlisted for his military service in 2017, is known for M...

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...