Though the festival will not take place this year owing to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival announced its 73rd official selection on the evening of June 3rd. Among the 56 titles for this unusual 2020 edition, which features no sections, are a pair of Korean films - YEON Sang-ho’s Peninsula and IM Sang-soo’s Heaven: To the Land of Happiness. Both filmmakers have had two films...

Korea’s found footage horror hit GONJIAM: Haunted Asylum (2018) is set to get the US remake treatment. The Los Angeles-based group Black Box Management is developing the update, which will be the first project to stem from a recently forged partnership with the Korean agency BH Entertainment. GONJIAM: Haunted Asylum(2018)focuses on a group of young paranormal investigators who livestream themselve...

Veteran star KIM Yun-seok’s directorial debut Another Child has picked up the NETPAC Award at this year’s 39th Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF). The film concerns a teenage girl (KIM Hye-jun) who discovers that her father is having an affair with the mother (KIM So-jin) of her classmate (PARK Se-jin). The father, played by KIM Yun-seok, runs away from the situation while his wife (YUM Jun...

Korean film industry in 2015 has made USD　1.7 billion sales in two years in a row. According to the Final Report on 2015 Korean Film Industry by　Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the domestic film sales has reached USD 1.76 billion, including ticket sales and derivative market sales, which is 4.2% higher than the previous year. The box office sales in 2015 has increased by 3.1% to USD 1.42 billion, as...

Last November, The Priests and Inside Men. were the favorites among the domestic film audience. According to the November monthly report on Korean film industry by Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the domestic film share last month was 69.5% and the foreign film share was 30.5%. Here, The Priests and Inside Men are known to have played a crucial role. The total number of viewers in November w...

Local titles continued to impress in the first quarter of 2019 as sales were down only slightly to 2.26 million while the market share for Korean films swelled to 79%. A Hollywood tentpole is sure to reverse that next month, but until then local holdovers look set to mop up the spoils. Debuting in first place was CJ Entertainment’s SVAHA : THE SIXTH FINGER, the second film from The Priests (2015) ...

After a few years of major growth at the beginning of the decade, the Korean box office has remained flat once again, with this year’s total to date staying at the same level as 2015. However, where gains have been made is in the local industry, which has churned out several major hits and found itself with a significantly better market share than last year. Local Hits Edge Out Hollywood as Box Of...

Hollywood Claims Edge in Slow Weekend After six weeks of local dominance during Korea’s biggest moviegoing season, local films lost the majority market share for the first time as business cooled off significantly, yet with the Chuseok(Korean Thanksgiving Day) holiday and a pair of homegrown tentpoles on the way this is likely to be a short-lived win for Hollywood, which accounted for 56% of sale...