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- KIM Sung-kyun Suits Up for JOSEON FIREFIGHTER
- Character actor KIM Sung-kyun has confirmed his appearance in the upcoming period comedy-drama Joseon Firefighter (translated title). Star KIM Nam-gil is also reported to be considering an offer to appear in the latest film from director MOON Hyun-sung, known for As One (2012) and The King’s Case No...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 28, 2019
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- BONG Joon-ho to Give BAFTA Lecture
- Director BONG Joon-ho has been invited to take part in the 10th annual Screenwriters’ Lecture Series put on by British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The Korean filmmaker will join other celebrated world cinema cineastes such as Pedro ALMÓDOVAR, Noah BAUMBACH, Robert EGGERS and Céline ...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 22, 2019
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- PARASITE Selected as South Korea’s Entry to Academy Awards
- BONG Joon-ho’s latest film PARASITE has been announced as South Korea’s official entry to the Best International Film category of next year’s Academy Awards. The section was previously known as the Best Foreign Language Film category. To date, a Korean film has never been nominated at the AMPAs Acad...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 29, 2019
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- BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE Adds Karlovy Vary and Locarno to Festival Calendar
- PARASITE, the award-winning box office smash that marks director BONG Joon-ho’s return to Korean filmmaking after a decade away, has added a pair of prestigious events to its festival lineup. The acclaimed film is set to screen this summer at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in t...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 26, 2019
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- BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE Takes Grand Prize in Sydney
- Just as it begins to wrap up its successful box office run at home, BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE has added another trophy to its chest after coming away from the 66th Sydney International Film Festival with the top prize. Featuring SONG Kang-ho and LEE Sun-kyun as the patriarchs of families on opposite e...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 19, 2019
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- Filmfest München to Stage Complete BONG Joon-ho Retrospective
- Filmfest München is set to stage a retrospective on the films of director BONG Joon-ho, which will span his whole career, from his 2000 debut Barking Dogs Never Bite, all the way to his Palme d’Or-winning PARASITE this year. BONG’s latest, which debuted just last month at the Cannes Film Festival an...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 13, 2019
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- Neon to Unleash PARASITE in North America on October 11
- This year’s Palme d’Or winner PARASITE, the first ever Korean film to pick up the world’s top film festival award, has fixed its North American release date. Distributor NEON will launch the film in America on October 11, thereby opening up the possibility of an awards run in the fall. PARASITEis Di...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 07, 2019
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- KIM Yun-seok and BAE Doo-na Catch VIRUS
- Stars KIM Yun-seok and BAE Doo-na will join forces on screen for the first time in the upcoming film Virus (literal title). The project will mark the first commercial feature film of acclaimed indie filmmaker KANG Yi-kwan. KIM will play a researcher investigating a peculiar virus that causes its hos...
- by Pierce Conran / May 08, 2019
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- PARASITE Leads Korean Quartet at Cannes 2019
- This year, the Cannes Film Festival is set to welcome four films from Korea, from the most anticipated new film from a Korean director this year, down to a promising student short. BONG Joon-ho is back in competition with his latest film Parasite, the ‘Midnight Screenings’ welcome a new Korean genre...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 26, 2019
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- 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 lead, will be screening at 90% of the mult...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 28, 2018
