BLACK MONEY Tops Korean Film Producers Association Awards

CHUNG Ji-young’s Black Money (2019) took home the top prize from this year’s 7th Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA) Awards. The film also triumphed in the Best Actor category, won by CHO Jin-woong. KIM Hee-ae earned the Best Actress prize for her role in...

THE MAN STANDING NEXT Leads Blue Dragon Film Awards with 11 Nominations

41st Edition of Prestigious Awards to Take Place on December 10 The Blue Dragon Film Awards revealed the nominations for this year’s 41st edition, which is scheduled to take place on December 10. WOO Min-ho’s period political drama The Man Standing Next leads ...

56th Baeksang Arts Awards to Take Place without Audience on June 5

Following a delay owing to the current pandemic, the 56th edition of the Baeksang Arts Awards are now scheduled to take place on June 5 in the KINTEX center in Ilsan to the West of Seoul, thought they will take place without a live audience. The nominees for B...

LEAVING LAS VEGAS Filmmaker Developing Korean-Language Project

Mike FIGGIS, the English director most well-known for the film Leaving Las Vegas, which earned Nicholas CAGE the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1995, is currently developing a film that will be set and shot in Korea, featuring Korean language. This would be t...

HERSTORY Received Global Summons

Well Go USA Picks Up Comfort Woman Drama for North America Korean sales outfit Contents Panda has secured several deals for its comfort woman drama Herstory. The latest work by director MIN Kyu-dong, the film bowed in domestic theaters on June 27. Distributor ...

CONTENTS PANDA Invade Cannes Market with THE GREAT BATTLE, BELIEVER

Korean sales outfit Contents Panda, which participated in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival over the past two years with Train to Busan (2016) and The Villainess (2017), have brought a diverse lineup to the Marché this year, led by LEE Hae-you...

Investment and Distribution Company NEW Releases 10 Titles for 2018 Line-up

Renowned Korean investment and distribution company Next Entertainment World (NEW) announced 10 titles they plan to release in 2018. Through a press release, NEW stated they had three films in their catalog that had sold over 10 million tickets since their fou...

MIN Kyu-dong Wraps Comfort Women Tale HER STORY

MIN Kyu-dong has wrapped his upcoming Comfort Woman court drama Her Story (working title), which features actresses KIM Hee-ae, KIM Hae-sook and LEE Yoo-young. The drama, which will be released by Next Entertainment World, completed two months of production on...

KIM Sang-kyung, KIM Gang-woo and KIM Hee-ae Make It Through LOST NIGHT

Actors KIM Sang-kyung, KIM Gang-woo and KIM Hee-ae wrapped three months of production for the incoming thriller Lost Night (working title) on August 31st. The project marks the feature debut of director LEE Chang-hee. Lost Night concerns a woman’s body that go...

Comfort Woman Court Drama Subpoenas KIM Hae-sook and KIM Hee-ae

Following 2015’s The Treacherous, Director MIN Kyu-dong is getting ready to return with his seventh film, Her Story (working title). Based on real court testimonies from the 1990s about the ordeals suffered by comfort women, the drama will feature KIM Hae-sook...