Young stars CHAE Soo-bin and JANG Ki-yong are reportedly close to signing as the leads of the upcoming romantic comedy Sweet and Sour (translated title). The film will be the latest of LUCK-KEY (2016) director LEE Gae-byok. CHAE and JANG will depict a couple who fall in love at first sight but as work and life wears them down, they start to grow further apart. Though both actors are largely known ...

PARK Jung-bum’s third film Height of the Wave has picked up the Special Jury Prize in competition at the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival. The film stars LEE Seung-yeon (House of Hummingbird) as a police officer who is restationed to an out-of-the-way island with her daughter following her divorce. Once there she tries to help an orphaned girl and come to grips with the strange community o...

Following last year’s Japanese sci-fi action noir anime adaptation Illang: The Wolf Brigade, Director KIM Jee-woon is gearing up for his next project, which will be a co-produced French and Korean series called Klaus 47. Extreme Job star LEE Ha-nee is currently considering an offer for a leading role in the film, according to her agency Saram Entertainment. Klaus 47 is based on real events surroun...

Star Power Drives Thriller to 2nd All Time Opening Week After a slow January, viewers once again packed into theatres over the 5-day Lunar New Year weekend, purchasing 3.16 million tickets, 77% of which for local titles. While the figure was 50% higher than the previous time Lunar New Year fell on a Monday (2012), the holiday weekend was down from all three previous years. With a commanding 74% ...

Following the freezing temperatures of the previous week, business picked up over the weekend, increasing almost 40% to 2.19 million admissions. With the release the hotly anticipated Kung Fu Panda 3, America had a significant viewer share advantage, capturing 78% of the market. Though it didn’t open quite as high as its 2011 predecessor, Kung Fu Panda 3, which was directed by Korean-American Jen...

Hollywood survival pic The Revenant remained in first place, though only by a razor-thin 0.4% margin, during a slow mid-January weekend at the Korean box office which shifted 1.58 million tickets, with US films just about claiming a majority with 51%. Local films accounted for 46% of business. Leonardo DiCaprio’s grisly period action-thriller slid 42% in its sophomore weekend, adding 399,966 tick...