The main cast for the voice phishing-themed film Citizen Deokhee (working title) has been finalized ahead of a shoot that will kick off later this year. As previously announced, RA Mi-ran will lead the cast of the Showbox project, with YEOM Hye-ran co-starring, and joining them will be GONG Myoung and JANG Yoon-joo. Citizen Deokhee is based on the true story of a housewife who becomes the victim o...

The Hungary Korean Film will be held from September 4 to 10 in the Corvin Cinema in Budapest, Hungary. The festival, which is celebrating its 13th anniversary this year, will open with the film that was the most talked-about title in Korea last year, LEE Byoung-heon’s Extreme Job. The Hungary Korean Film Festival started modestly in 2008, when it was called Korean Cinema Week, but has grown into t...

LEE Byung-hun, PARK Seo-jun and PARK Bo-young will be joining forces for the upcoming disaster thriller Concrete Utopia (working title), as confirmed by Lotte Entertainment. UM Tae-hwa, the director of VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED (2016), will helm the project. UM’s new film will chronicle the lives of survivors in a city that has been destroyed by a major earthquake.LEE Byung-hunwill play Y...

Korea’s film industry ended 2019 with a bang, as local disaster action-drama ASHFALL lorded over the charts at the tail end of a massive 12 months. It was a record-breaking year for the exhibition sector, which sold a record 226.68 million tickets, among several new box office benchmarks, while local films claimed a majority share for the ninth year in a row. This year’s total marked a 4.8% rise o...

With the entry of yet another feverishly anticipated Disney title, the box office rose 10% in mid-July with 2.97 million tickets sold over the past weekend. Hollywood continued to be extremely dominant as the local market share was pushed all the way down to 3%. Notably, Disney accounted for 77% of all sales with three of the top four films on the charts, although its subsidiary Marvel co-produced...

After months of local dominance Hollywood finally found a way to break through the ranks with Marvel’s latest tentpole Captain Marvel. Admissions were up 25% to 2.74 million while Hollywood controlled the charts with an 84% market share. Following a long dry spell for Hollywood, Captain Marvel rode in on a wave of anticipation and scored a large 2.26 million viewers (USD 18.09 million) weekend, wi...