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- VOICE OF SILENCE Wins Top Prize at Fantasia Film Festival
- Yoo Ahin Awarded Best Actor for Acclaimed Black Comedy in CanadaVoice of Silence (2020), the acclaimed debut film of director Hong Euijeong, has triumphed at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where it picked up two awards. The black comedy earned the Best Film Award in the main Cheva...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 06, 2021
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- Yu Jaemyeong Joins Lee Sunkyun and Jo Jungsuk in LAND OF HAPPINESS
- MASQUERADE Director Returns with New Military-Themed Mystery(From the left) Yu Jaemyeong, Lee Sunkyun, Jo JungsukChoo Changmin’s new film Land of Happiness (translated title) is beginning to shape up as Yu Jaemyeong has become the latest name to join a cast that also includes actors Lee Sunkyun and ...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 02, 2021
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- 24 Korean Films to Screen at Fantasia, including THE DEVIL’S DEAL Premiere
- Cho Jinwoong’s Debut Short as Director to Screen at North American Genre FestivalThe Devil’s Deal (2021)24 Korean films, including eight features and 16 shorts, are set to screen at next month’s 25th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. Among those will be the wor...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 28, 2021
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- Fantasia Announces Final Wave, Confirming 15 Korean Titles
- Last week, the Fantasia International Film Festival revealed its third and final wave of programming for this year’s 24th edition, which will take place exclusively online from August 20 to September 2. The Korean thriller Bring Me Home (2019) has been added to the lineup, which now counts 15 Korean...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 19, 2020
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- KWAK Do-won, JOO Won and YU Jae-myeong Dress Up for FIREMAN
- Veteran filmmaker KWAK Kyung-taek, known for Friend (2001), one of the original Korean blockbusters, is deep in preparations for his 15th film, titled Fireman (translated title). KWAK has assembled a top-drawer cast, which will be headlined by KWAK Do-won, JOO Won and YU Jae-myeong and also feature ...
- by Pierce Conran / May 19, 2020
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- ALIEN with KIM Tae-ri, RYU Jun-yeol and KIM Woo-bin Begins Production Following Slight Covid-19 Delay
- CHOI Dong-hoon’s upcoming two-part blockbuster Alien (translated title) kicked off shooting on March 28. Production had originally been scheduled for earlier in the month but was delayed due to mounting safety concerns surrounding the Covid-19 public health crisis. Leading the cast in the big-budget...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 08, 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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- LEE Sung-min and YU Jae-myeong Go Head-to-Head in Search of BEAST
- LEE Sung-min and YU Jae-myeong have signed on to star in Beast (working title), a new project that will be financed and distributed by Next Entertainment World (N.E.W.). Handling the directing reins will be LEE Jeong-ho. The film will tell the story of two detectives who clash head on as they try to...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 16, 2018
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- BAE Doo-na Confirmed for 6-episode Netflix Drama Series Kingdom
- BAE Doo-na has been confirmed to star in a 6-episode Neflix drama. Representative from BAE’s agency, SBD Entertainment, confirmed on October 12 that “BAE has selected Kingdom as her next project and the shooting will commence soon.” Kingdom is a zombie thriller set in the Joseon Dynasty. The story u...
- by KIM Su-bin / Oct 20, 2017