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- PARASITE Sweeps Hollywood Industry Guild Awards
- As the awards season reaches its climax, BONG Joon-ho’s acclaimed Palme d’Or winner Parasite has been stacking win after win at Hollywood’s major industry guild award ceremonies. The Korean smash hit earned the Best Ensemble Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Best Original Screenplay from the...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 04, 2020
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- CHOI Woo-shik Partners with A24 for PAST LIVES
- Parasite (2019) star CHOI Woo-shik has been offered a role in the romance drama Past Lives, from acclaimed American distributor A24, according to his representatives at Soop Management. Film news site Collider revealed that the project will mark the feature directing debut of Celine SONG and will be...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 04, 2020
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- RYU Seung-ryong Joins Hands with MISS BAEK Director LEE Ji-won
- Star RYU Seung-ryong has signed on to appear in Bi-gwang (Korean title) the sophomore film of Miss Baek (2018) director LEE Ji-won. The film is described as a noirish family drama about a couple that struggles to get back on its feet following an unexpected incident. RYU is on board to play Hwang Jo...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 03, 2020
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- Lee Isaac CHUNG’s MINARI with Steven YEUN Wows in Sundance Debut
- One of the most talked-about films to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year has been Minari, the latest film by Korean-American director Lee Isaac CHUNG. The film, which has drawn universal acclaim in Park City, is executive produced by Hollywood actor Steven YEUN, who appears alongside K...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 31, 2020
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- HA Jung-woo and HWANG Jung-min Considering Netflix Project SURINAME
- The big-budget Netflix crime drama Suriname (literal title), the first series from director YOON Jong-bin, has offered leading roles to superstar HA Jung-woo and HWANG Jung-min. Representatives for the actors, who have both worked with Director YOON in the past, have confirmed that they are looking ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 31, 2020
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- Hong Sangsoo and KIM Min-Hee Return to Berlin Competition with THE WOMAN WHO RAN
- The 70 Berlin International Film Festival has been steadily revealing its program over the last few weeks and among its many sections will be three Korean projects, including Hong Sangsoo’s new film with KIM Min-hee, The Woman Who Ran, which will feature in the festival’s competition section. The sc...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 31, 2020
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- HAN Hyo-joo and BYUN Yo-han Cast in Japanese Film
- Korean stars HAN Hyo-joo and BYUN Yo-han have been cast in the Japanese film The Sun Does Not Move (translated title). The film is being directed by HASUMI Eiichirō and is based on a novel by YOSHIDA Shuichi. The plot follows a tense battle between international agents from different nations regardi...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 30, 2020
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- BRING ME HOME Heads to Göteborg
- The recent Korean thriller Bring Me Home (2019), the big screen comeback project for Korean star LEE Young-ae, has been invited to screen at the Göteborg Film Festival in Sweden, where it will take part in the Ingmar Bergman Competition. The project, which is the first feature film by director KIM S...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 29, 2020
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- JEON Do-yeon Mulls EMERGENCY DECLARATION
- According to her agency Management SOOP, JEON Do-yeon is positively considering an offer to appear in the upcoming disaster film Emergency Declaration (literal title). Is she signs on, she will join a cast that already includes acting titans SONG Kang-ho and LEE Byung-hun in a film to be directed by...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 29, 2020
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- PARASITE and BONG Joon-ho Nominated by PGA, DGA and WGA
- In the week leading up the Academy Awards nominations, BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite received a flurry of major nominations with industry groups in Hollywood, all of which represented firsts for Korean films. The acclaimed film was nominated for top prizes by the Producers Guild of America (PGA), the Dire...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 29, 2020
