TAKE POINT Granted Record Wide Opening in Taiwan

End-of-year action-thriller Take Point opened in Taiwan on December 28 across 85 screens, the largest release ever accorded to a Korean film in the market. This means that the explosive Korean blockbuster from director KIM Byung-woo, with HA Jung-woo in the le...

NAFF Presents IT Project Participants for 2018

Last week, the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) announced the participants of its four segments this year, led by 17 selections for the IT Project. NAFF will also host four Indian teams for its ‘Project Spotlight’, a trio for ‘Nordic Genre Invasion’ and...

CJ Entertainment Ventures onto the Croisette with THE SPY GONE NORTH

Korea’s CJ Entertainment returns to the official selection at Cannes for the fourth year on the trot with their upcoming North Korea-themed espionage drama The Spy Gone North (2017). Meanwhile, the company is also busy on the Marché floor with a heavy lineup o...

Florence Korean Film Fest to Stage HA Jung-woo Retrospective and Masterclass

The 16th Florence Korean Film Fest will open its doors on March 22 and screen 25 features and several shorts until it concludes on March 30. This year’s edition will also include a retrospective on films featuring popular star HA Jung-woo. HWANG Dong-hyuk will...

CJ Takes TAKE POINT to Market in Berlin

Top Korean distributor CJ Entertainment is repping an explosive lineup at the European Film Market (EFM) this year, led by their upcoming military action Take Point, as well as several recent hits and local language titles for foreign markets. Reuniting direct...

LEE Sun-kyun Joins THE TERROR, LIVE Team for PMC

KIM Byung-woo and HA Jung-woo, the director and star duo behind the 2013 smash The Terror, LIVE, are teaming up again for rescue thriller PMC. Joining HA on screen will be LEE Sun-kyun. PMC, which stands for private military company, focuses on a group of mili...

KWAK Kyung-taek’s Thriller RESURRECTION Has Begun Production

A Vengeful Story Featuring KIM Rae-won, KIM Hae-sook and SUNG Dong-il KWAK Kyung-taek of Friend (2001) and The Classified File (2015) has begun production of a new film. Resurrection (working title), a mystery thriller where CHOI Myung-sook, a woman who died 7...

MADONNA Picks Golden Orchid in Hawaii

Renaissance Award for HA Jung-woo SHIN Su-won’s third feature Madonna, which debuted in the Un Certain Regard lineup of the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, has won the Halekulani Golden Orchid for Best Narrative Feature at the 35th Hawaii Internationa...

HIDE AND SEEK Director Wraps New Horror

JANGSAN TIGER with YUM Jung-ah Eyes Summer 2016 Release On the heels of his 2013 summer hit Hide and Seek, director HUH Jung is preparing his next feature, the horror Jangsan Tiger (transliterated title), which completed principal photography earlier this mon...

NAFF Reveals This Year’s It Project Participants

BiFan Project Market Takes Shape for 2015 The Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) announced its 2015 ‘It Project’ this morning, which will include 21 participants from 12 countries. The projects, seven of which hail from Korea, were chosen from 171 submi...