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- MEMORIES OF MURDER to Make Long-Awaited North American Bow in October
- Following in the wake of the massive global success of PARASITE (2019), winner of the fourth Academy Award, including Best Picture, and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, director BONG Joon-ho’s 2003 classic Memories of Murder is gearing up for release in North America in a remastered versi...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 24, 2020
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- Hirokazu KORE-EDA Sets Korean Project with SONG Kang-ho, BAE Doo-na, GANG Dong-won
- Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker KORE-EDA Hirokazu is set to make his Korean language film debut with the new project Baby, Box, Broker, and he has assembled an impressive local cast to join him - SONG Kang-ho, BAE Doo-na and GANG Dong-won. CJ Entertainment will finance and distribute the project, which...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 11, 2020
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- LEE Byung-hun Prepares for THE GAME
- LEE Byung-hun is positively considering the leading role in The Game (translated title), the latest film from The Sheriff in Town (2017) director KIM Hyung-ju. Based on a true story, The Game will focus on the rivalry between CHO Hun-hyun and LEE Chang-ho, legendary players of the game of Go (aka ‘b...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 04, 2020
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- SONG Kang-ho Trains for Sports Drama ONE WIN
- PARASITE (2019) star SONG Kang-ho is quickly filling up his schedule. Though currently in production on the disaster film Emergency Declaration (translated title), the actor has confirmed that he will appear in the sports drama One Win (translated title) from director SHIN Yeon-shick. The film will ...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 31, 2020
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- LEE Byung-hun, PARK Seo-jun and PARK Bo-young Move into CONCRETE UTOPIA
- LEE Byung-hun, PARK Seo-jun and PARK Bo-young will be joining forces for the upcoming disaster thriller Concrete Utopia (working title), as confirmed by Lotte Entertainment. UM Tae-hwa, the director of VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED (2016), will helm the project. UM’s new film will chronicle the...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 21, 2020
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- AMPAS Invites 19 New Korean Members
- Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which stages the Academy Awards annually, revealed a list of 819 new film professionals from 68 countries invited to join its ranks this year. Among the new Academy members, should they accept their invitations, were a record 19 Kor...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 10, 2020
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- SONG Kang-ho Gets Wrapped Up in COBWEB
- Korean acting legend SONG Kang-ho has confirmed that he will appear in the film Cobweb (translated title), the first new project that he has accepted since the historic awards run of BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) earlier this year. The film will be the latest from veteran indie filmmaker SHIN Yeon-...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 30, 2020
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- PARK Hae-il to Play Admiral Yi Sun-sin in HANSAN
- Roaring Currents (2014) director KIM Han-min is returning to the legendary historical figure Admiral LEE Sun-shin for his next film, the period naval epic Hansan: Rise of the Dragon (translated title). PARK Hae-il will play the Admiral in the film, while BYUN Yo-han will portray his Japanese rival. ...
- by Pierce Conran / May 27, 2020
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- 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 Best Film this year are BONG Joon-ho’s Pa...
- by Pierce Conran / May 22, 2020
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- PARASITE Scores Record Debut on Hulu
- The phenomenal theatrical, festival and awards run of BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE (2019) may have finally come to an end, yet the global success story is still finding new ways to break records after posting a scorching debut on US steaming platform Hulu. The film debuted on Hulu on April 8 in North Ame...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 28, 2020
