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PARK Chan-wook, at ‘CGV Movie Collage Cinema Talk’ event commemorating the opening of CGV Yeouido on September 12th, celebrate KIM Ki-duk’s accomplishment of winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He said, “When I　heard the news, I thought, ‘He finally made it.’ I was not surprised at all. Since I knew very well what his reputation was like in Europe, I even thought ‘This is later than what I thought.’”

 

When asked, “Aren’t you jealous because he received the greatest prize at one of world’s 3 best film festivals before you?”, he answered with a smile saying, “I can win one, too.” PARK received the Grand Prize of the Jury with Old Boy in 2004 and a Jury Prize with Thirst in 2009, both at the Cannes International Film Festival(He was a co-winner of two Jury Prizes in 2009; one was given to him and the other to Andrea ARNOLD).

 

PARK mentioned Heiri, Paju, where KIM and he both live in, by saying, “Not only as another Korean director but also as a neighbor living in the same space, same village, I truly congratulate him. We even put up a banner saying ‘Congratulations’ at the village.” PARK recently finished post-production of Stoker, his first Hollywood film starring Nicole KIDMAN and Mia WASIKOWSKA. He is back in Korea now and working on the script of a Korean film. Stoker is going to be released in North America and Korea in March next year.

 

In the mean time, at an interview on telephone with an MBC’s radio program ‘SON Seok-hee’s Siseonjipjung’, KIM said, “If my film makes a box-office hit, I’ll make 2 duplicates of my trophy and give them to two leading actors (CHO Min-su and LEE Jung-jin) each.”

 

He then joked, “Because of the regulation limiting the Golden Lion winner from winning another award, CHO lost her chance to win. So I’m thinking if I should take a wing out of my trophy and give it to her.” As of September 12th, Pieta has been plated 1,026 times at 290 screens all over in Korea and have sold 171,522 tickets. I has exceeded the half of the break-even point (250,000 tickets) in 6 days since it was released.