- Korean Film News
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- HOTEL BY THE RIVER Scores New Sales for Finecut
- Just as the American Film Market being held Santa Monica, CA got underway, Korean sales boutique Finecut announced a number of deals for films in its current lineup, including Hong Sangsoo’s Hotel By the River, the period creature feature Monstrum and the comedy Too Hot to Die. Hong’s 23rd work, and...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 09, 2018
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- Paris Korean Film Festival Returns for 13th Edition on October 30
- The 13th edition of the Paris Korean Film Festival (FFCP) will open its doors on October 30 and run until November 6. This year’s FFCP will open with the Chuseok smash The Great Battle before being brought to a close with the youth drama Sunset in My Hometown. From director KIM Kwang-sik and staring...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 25, 2018
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- MONSTRUM Gobbles Up Audience Award in Sitges
- Korea’s first ever period creature feature Monstrum has picked up the Audience Award from the Panorama Fantàstic section of this year’s 51st Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. Also on the prize winners list was KIM Sang-joon’s The Wheel Turns, which earned the Best Short Film...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 22, 2018
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- Finecut Gets SHIN Min-a's Mystery-Thriller DIVA
- Korean sales boutique Finecut has acquired the international sales rights for the upcoming mystery thriller Diva starring SHIN Min-a and LEE Yoo-young. During this month’s Asian Film Market, held over the course of the Busan International Film Festival, the outfit also shopped several new titles, in...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 12, 2018
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- Sitges Loads Up 14 Titles from Korea
- The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia returns for its 51st edition this month, and with it comes once again a broad lineup of the latest genre cinema from Korea. 14 films have been invited this year, among them ten features and four shorts film. Three of those features and on...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 04, 2018
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- MONSTRUM Takes a Bite Out of Sitges
- Period creature feature Monstrum is set to have its international premiere at the upcoming 51st Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. From director HUH Jong-ho and featuring KIM Myung-min, KIM In-kwon, and Girls’ Day kpop star LEE Hye-ri, the monster film debuts in Korea on Sept...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 11, 2018
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- Monstrum, sales to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam
- Korean sales boutique Finecut is on the ground at the Marché du Film in Cannes with a broad lineup of titles, which includes LEE Chang-dong’s highly-anticipated new work BURNING, screening in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival this year. Eight years after his last work Poetry, LEE’...
- by Pierce Conran / May 25, 2018
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- AFTER MY DEATH to Compete at Fribourg Film Festival
- The Fribourg International Film Festival returns for its 32nd edition on March 16 and throughout its eight days the festival will once again feature several Korean films, including After My Death in competition and the big budget commercial titles A Taxi Driver and The Battleship Island in sidebar p...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 12, 2018
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- Finecut Scores Presales on Berlinale Trio
- Korean sales outfit Finecut is in the midst of a busy European Film Market (EFM). The company represents three of the Korean films screening at the Berlin International Film Festival this year and has three major upcoming titles on its docket, in addition to a range of recent commercial and indie fa...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 26, 2018
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- Finecut to Launch Sales on MONSTRUM at EFM
- Finecut will launch sales on the period creature feature Monstrum (translated title) at the European Film Market (EFM) during the Berlin International Film Festival later this month. The big-budget title is the third work of Countdown (2011) director HEO Jong-ho and features KIM Myung-min, PARK Hee-...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 05, 2018