Distributor, Day for Night has acquired a trio of Asian titles for U.K. and Ireland at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents and Film Market.
Day for Night is acquiring the late Pema Tseden’s “Snow Leopard” from Rediance. Pema Tseden, the Tibetan art house film director known for “Jinpa” and “Balloon,” died at 53 earlier this year. The film explores the complicated coexistence of animals and people on the Tibetan plateau. After a snow leopard kills nine rams owned by a herder, a bitter conflict ensues between the herder who wants to kill the snow leopard and the father who wants to release it.
“Snow Leopard” world premiered at Venice and subsequently played Toronto and will next be at Tokyo.
“Next Sohee” by Korean filmmaker July Jung (“A Girl at My Door”), which premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2022 and played at Busan and London, has been...
Day for Night is acquiring the late Pema Tseden’s “Snow Leopard” from Rediance. Pema Tseden, the Tibetan art house film director known for “Jinpa” and “Balloon,” died at 53 earlier this year. The film explores the complicated coexistence of animals and people on the Tibetan plateau. After a snow leopard kills nine rams owned by a herder, a bitter conflict ensues between the herder who wants to kill the snow leopard and the father who wants to release it.
“Snow Leopard” world premiered at Venice and subsequently played Toronto and will next be at Tokyo.
“Next Sohee” by Korean filmmaker July Jung (“A Girl at My Door”), which premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2022 and played at Busan and London, has been...
- 10/10/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Issues of cultural diversity, different Asian diaspora populations and the quest for the Asian cinematic identity came up for discussion on Thursday as the New Currents competition jury at the Busan International Film Festival prepared to get down to work.
Filmmaker and academic Jung Sung-il, who is set as the jury president, appeared to invite a degree of dispute that might get the blood racing. “I have high hopes, hope for controversies and good conversations among the jurors,” he said in opening remarks. Later he added that he’d be open to championing a “glorious failure” as prize-winner if it contained a truly original scene or section over a slicker, but less innovative title.
Other jurors are: Han Junhee, Korean director of “Coin Locker Girl” and “Dp”; Eva Cahen, head of the Semaine de la Critique section at Cannes; Indonesian director Edwin (“Blind Pig Wants to Fly”); and Korean American...
Filmmaker and academic Jung Sung-il, who is set as the jury president, appeared to invite a degree of dispute that might get the blood racing. “I have high hopes, hope for controversies and good conversations among the jurors,” he said in opening remarks. Later he added that he’d be open to championing a “glorious failure” as prize-winner if it contained a truly original scene or section over a slicker, but less innovative title.
Other jurors are: Han Junhee, Korean director of “Coin Locker Girl” and “Dp”; Eva Cahen, head of the Semaine de la Critique section at Cannes; Indonesian director Edwin (“Blind Pig Wants to Fly”); and Korean American...
- 10/5/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the U.S. and international recipients of the 2023 Academy Gold Fellowship for Women.
Erica Eng and July Jung are the most recent filmmakers to receive the fellowship, each with a prize of $35,000. Now in its sixth year, this is the second year the fellowship has worked in partnership with Chanel.
Part of Academy Gold, a global talent development and inclusion initiative, the Fellowship for Women is a one-year program that combines direct support, personalized mentorship and access to once-in-a-lifetime networking opportunities for emerging women filmmakers to further their pursuits in the field. Other initiative operating within Academy Gold include Gold Rising, the Student Academy Awards and Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
“We are honored to advance the work of Erica and July – two extraordinary filmmakers. The Academy’s Gold Fellowship for Women is a crucial part of the Academy...
Erica Eng and July Jung are the most recent filmmakers to receive the fellowship, each with a prize of $35,000. Now in its sixth year, this is the second year the fellowship has worked in partnership with Chanel.
Part of Academy Gold, a global talent development and inclusion initiative, the Fellowship for Women is a one-year program that combines direct support, personalized mentorship and access to once-in-a-lifetime networking opportunities for emerging women filmmakers to further their pursuits in the field. Other initiative operating within Academy Gold include Gold Rising, the Student Academy Awards and Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
“We are honored to advance the work of Erica and July – two extraordinary filmmakers. The Academy’s Gold Fellowship for Women is a crucial part of the Academy...
- 9/12/2023
- by Libby Hill
- The Wrap
$35,000 prize for US and international winners.
The Academy has selected Erica Eng and July Jung as its 2023 Academy Gold Fellowship For Women recipients.
The fellowship is part of the Academy Gold global talent development and inclusion initiative and offers a one-year programme offering direct support, mentorship and access to top-level networking opportunities for emerging women filmmakers to further their careers.
Two fellowships are awards each year with a $35,000 prize for each category.
Eng and Jung will Fellows also get career advancement support through the Gold Alumni Program providing provides continued access, opportunity, professional development and education for alumni of Academy Gold programmes including Gold Rising,...
The Academy has selected Erica Eng and July Jung as its 2023 Academy Gold Fellowship For Women recipients.
The fellowship is part of the Academy Gold global talent development and inclusion initiative and offers a one-year programme offering direct support, mentorship and access to top-level networking opportunities for emerging women filmmakers to further their careers.
Two fellowships are awards each year with a $35,000 prize for each category.
Eng and Jung will Fellows also get career advancement support through the Gold Alumni Program providing provides continued access, opportunity, professional development and education for alumni of Academy Gold programmes including Gold Rising,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut has inked a batch of deals for the most recent films from South Korea’s most prolific auteur, Hong Sangsoo. Hong’s latest, In Our Day, which will premiere as the closing title of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section on May 25, has sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films). The film follows a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s second most recent feature, In Water, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, also has done brisk business at Cannes’ Marche du Film. The movie has sold to France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films), following its earlier sale to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also closed...
Hong’s second most recent feature, In Water, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, also has done brisk business at Cannes’ Marche du Film. The movie has sold to France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films), following its earlier sale to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also closed...
- 5/23/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Seoul-based sales agent Finecut has sold Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day to France’s Capricci, Spain’s L’Atalante Cinema and Ama Films for Greece.
The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s previous film, In Water, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is also selling to multiple territories, including France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The film previously sold to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also done brisk business on three titles from young female directors – July Jung’s Next Sohee, Lee Sol-hui’s Greenhouse and Lee Ji-eun’s The Hill of Secrets.
Next Sohee, which premiered in Cannes Critics Week last year,...
The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s previous film, In Water, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is also selling to multiple territories, including France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The film previously sold to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also done brisk business on three titles from young female directors – July Jung’s Next Sohee, Lee Sol-hui’s Greenhouse and Lee Ji-eun’s The Hill of Secrets.
Next Sohee, which premiered in Cannes Critics Week last year,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Further sales made of Hong’s Berlinale title ‘in water’ and others.
South Korea’s Finecut has closed deals on several titles led by auteur Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, which is set to close Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and his recent Berlinale title in water.
In Our Day sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films) ahead of its premiere on May 25. The feature follows an actress and old poet who each host a visitor and dodge questions posed by their guests using food, drink and games.
The prolific filmmaker’s first feature of this year was in water,...
South Korea’s Finecut has closed deals on several titles led by auteur Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, which is set to close Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and his recent Berlinale title in water.
In Our Day sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films) ahead of its premiere on May 25. The feature follows an actress and old poet who each host a visitor and dodge questions posed by their guests using food, drink and games.
The prolific filmmaker’s first feature of this year was in water,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
“In Our Day,” the film by South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo which closes the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival, has seen distributors in multiple territories move early to strike rights deals.
French rights were picked up by Capricci), Spanish rights by L’Atalante Cinema and Greek rights by Ama Films. The film has its official premiere on May 25.
Seoul-based Finecut has long been the sales agent for Hong’s plentiful output. In addition to the deals on “In Our Day,” Finecut signed agreements with L’Atalante, with France’s Ariona Films and Taiwan’s Cola Films for “In Water,” Hong’s first film of 2023 which premiered in the Encounters section in Berlin in February. The film was previously sold to Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut continues to do business on “Next Sohee,” the Jung July film which played at Cannes last year as the closing film of the Critics’Week section.
French rights were picked up by Capricci), Spanish rights by L’Atalante Cinema and Greek rights by Ama Films. The film has its official premiere on May 25.
Seoul-based Finecut has long been the sales agent for Hong’s plentiful output. In addition to the deals on “In Our Day,” Finecut signed agreements with L’Atalante, with France’s Ariona Films and Taiwan’s Cola Films for “In Water,” Hong’s first film of 2023 which premiered in the Encounters section in Berlin in February. The film was previously sold to Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut continues to do business on “Next Sohee,” the Jung July film which played at Cannes last year as the closing film of the Critics’Week section.
- 5/21/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In a decade from now, we might be looking at all the offerings at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and how Charlotte Well’s masterwork debut Aftersun was programmed (it won the inaugural Prix French Touch du Jury prize) at the “other end” of the Croisette. Not a bad legacy for Critics’ Week topper Ava Cahen who moves into year number two of her mandate. After programming a sturdy first edition, we expect just as many Euro items with an uptick of emerging female filmmaker talents.
In our predictions for all sections in Cannes, La Semaine de la Critique is always the toughest nut to crack with several under-the-radar gem selections (especially those coming from the South America and Asia continents).…...
In our predictions for all sections in Cannes, La Semaine de la Critique is always the toughest nut to crack with several under-the-radar gem selections (especially those coming from the South America and Asia continents).…...
- 3/21/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” dominated the Korean box office charts over the latest weekend with a 4.91 million opening weekend. Nationwide box office rose to 9.78 million, up from 7.85 million a week earlier.
The film played on over 2,000 screens and enjoyed a 50.1 market share between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. The film earned 7.1 million in its full five day run since opening on Wednesday.
“Quantumania” landed ahead of “The First Slam Dunk,” the Japanese animation that opened at the beginning of the year and had taken the top spot for the previous two weeks. “Slam Dunk” earned 2.17 million, another strong hold, and down from 2.67 million the previous weekend. Its cumulative total since Jan. 4 stands at 26 million.
Propelled by the film’s popularity, the underlying Japanese comic has now sold over one million copies in Korea, the local publisher Daiwon C.
The film played on over 2,000 screens and enjoyed a 50.1 market share between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. The film earned 7.1 million in its full five day run since opening on Wednesday.
“Quantumania” landed ahead of “The First Slam Dunk,” the Japanese animation that opened at the beginning of the year and had taken the top spot for the previous two weeks. “Slam Dunk” earned 2.17 million, another strong hold, and down from 2.67 million the previous weekend. Its cumulative total since Jan. 4 stands at 26 million.
Propelled by the film’s popularity, the underlying Japanese comic has now sold over one million copies in Korea, the local publisher Daiwon C.
- 2/19/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The re-released “Titanic” made a strong showing at the Korean box office over the latest weekend. But it was kept in second place by the remarkable performance of “The First Slam Dunk.”
The Japanese animation took top spot for the second successive weekend – its sixth weekend on release, after being held behind another James Cameron movie “Avatar: The Way of Water” for the first four weeks of its career – with a Friday to Sunday score of 2.67 million.
Just as unusual, the film’s weekend gross and its market share continued to grow. A week earlier, it shot 2.3 million. Since release on Jan. 4, the basketball-themed picture has accumulated a gross of 23.2 million.
“Titanic” earned 1.83 million over the weekend proper (i.e. between Friday and Sunday) and 695,000 on Wednesday and Thursday, for a rerelease total of 2.52 million.
“Avatar 2” continued in third place with a weekend score of 837,000. Its cumulative now stands at 107 million since release.
The Japanese animation took top spot for the second successive weekend – its sixth weekend on release, after being held behind another James Cameron movie “Avatar: The Way of Water” for the first four weeks of its career – with a Friday to Sunday score of 2.67 million.
Just as unusual, the film’s weekend gross and its market share continued to grow. A week earlier, it shot 2.3 million. Since release on Jan. 4, the basketball-themed picture has accumulated a gross of 23.2 million.
“Titanic” earned 1.83 million over the weekend proper (i.e. between Friday and Sunday) and 695,000 on Wednesday and Thursday, for a rerelease total of 2.52 million.
“Avatar 2” continued in third place with a weekend score of 837,000. Its cumulative now stands at 107 million since release.
- 2/12/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the Hong Kong star of “In The Mood For Love” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has been named Asian Filmmaker of the Year by the Busan International Film Festival. Leung will collect his award at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 5. 2022.
The festival will open with a screening of “Scent of Wind” by Hagi Mohaghegh. The Iranian director previously won the 2015 New Currents competition in Busan with his second feature “Immortal.”
The festival will close with “A Man,” from Japan’s Ishikawa Kei. The title premiered this week at the Venice film festival in the Orrizonti section.
Busan organizers said that the festival will play a total of 243 films (features and shorts) from 71 countries and territories. These include 89 world premieres and 13 international premieres.
After two years of disruptions the festival will operate largely normally. This includes a red carpet opening ceremony,...
The festival will open with a screening of “Scent of Wind” by Hagi Mohaghegh. The Iranian director previously won the 2015 New Currents competition in Busan with his second feature “Immortal.”
The festival will close with “A Man,” from Japan’s Ishikawa Kei. The title premiered this week at the Venice film festival in the Orrizonti section.
Busan organizers said that the festival will play a total of 243 films (features and shorts) from 71 countries and territories. These include 89 world premieres and 13 international premieres.
After two years of disruptions the festival will operate largely normally. This includes a red carpet opening ceremony,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Roundup
The full list of Audience Awards from this year's Fantasia International Film Festival was revealed today, with the top prize going to Franklin Ritch's smart science fiction drama The Artifice Girl, while South Korean hit The Roundup won Best Asian Feature/film]. French fairy tale Princesse Dragon came top in the animation category, and Alexandre Leblanc's rambling shaggy dog story Les Pas D'Allure won on home soil, receiving the Best Quebec Feature prize.
The festival came to a close on Wednesday with a screening of July Jung's Next Sohee, and next year's dates have yet to be announced.
Those awards in full:-
Best International Feature Gold: The Artifice Girl Silver: La Pieta Bronze: Deadstream
Best Asian Feature Gold: The Roundup Silver: Next Sohee Bronze: One For The Road (Hong Kong/Thailand, d. Baz...
The full list of Audience Awards from this year's Fantasia International Film Festival was revealed today, with the top prize going to Franklin Ritch's smart science fiction drama The Artifice Girl, while South Korean hit The Roundup won Best Asian Feature/film]. French fairy tale Princesse Dragon came top in the animation category, and Alexandre Leblanc's rambling shaggy dog story Les Pas D'Allure won on home soil, receiving the Best Quebec Feature prize.
The festival came to a close on Wednesday with a screening of July Jung's Next Sohee, and next year's dates have yet to be announced.
Those awards in full:-
Best International Feature Gold: The Artifice Girl Silver: La Pieta Bronze: Deadstream
Best Asian Feature Gold: The Roundup Silver: Next Sohee Bronze: One For The Road (Hong Kong/Thailand, d. Baz...
- 8/5/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The festival wrapped up its 26th edition on August 3.
Korean action film The Roundup and US sci-fi The Artifice Girl won the gold awards for best Asian feature and best international feature, respectively, at the audience awards for the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, which wrapped its 26th edition on August 3.
Starring Eternals and Train To Busan’s Done Lee as a ‘best of a cop’, The Roundup is directed by Lee Sang-yong and acts as a sequel to 2017’s The Outlaws. The gold winner was also a box office hit in South Korea, recording over 12.5 million admissions (as...
Korean action film The Roundup and US sci-fi The Artifice Girl won the gold awards for best Asian feature and best international feature, respectively, at the audience awards for the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, which wrapped its 26th edition on August 3.
Starring Eternals and Train To Busan’s Done Lee as a ‘best of a cop’, The Roundup is directed by Lee Sang-yong and acts as a sequel to 2017’s The Outlaws. The gold winner was also a box office hit in South Korea, recording over 12.5 million admissions (as...
- 8/5/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
July Jung made one of the best recent debuts of recent times in Korean cinema back in 2014 with her “A Girl at My Door”, a gritty and superbly acted social drama which screened in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes Film Festival. It went on to receive much critical acclaim and multiple awards at film festivals, with both the director and lead actress Bae Doona receiving praise and accolades for their work. Jung instantly became a director to watch out for but little did we know that it would take eight years before she would step behind the camera again for “Next Sohee”, which closed the International Critics’ Week at Cannes this year.
“Next Sohee” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
Bright, cheerful and feisty Sohee is like any other high schooler who wants to be a dancer, loves hanging out with her friends and boyfriend and would...
“Next Sohee” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
Bright, cheerful and feisty Sohee is like any other high schooler who wants to be a dancer, loves hanging out with her friends and boyfriend and would...
- 8/4/2022
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
And here I thought capitalism’s hold on the American education system by way of unpaid internships was bad. As documented in July Jung’s extern drama Next Sohee, what’s happening in South Korea is even worse. It all comes down to incentives—not for the children, but the institutions profiting off their labor. When big companies with huge executive payrolls (since managers need managers who also need managers while hourly employees become statistical cogs in the slave machine) need cheap and naïve workers to fill call center desks or factory floors, they knock on the school board’s door offering positions. Since districts’ budgets are beholden to quantitative competition, schools say “thank you,” blindly assign their students, and threaten that quitting isn’t an option. Such “disgrace” is monetarily unacceptable.
So-hee (Kim Si-Eun) is told she’s won the jackpot. Despite being an animal care major whose passion is dancing,...
So-hee (Kim Si-Eun) is told she’s won the jackpot. Despite being an animal care major whose passion is dancing,...
- 8/4/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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The Fantasia Film Festival is set to close with July Jung’s thriller Next Sohee, organizers said on Thursday.
Korean filmmaker Jung’s drama, which debuted by closing the Cannes Critics’ Week and will get a North American bow in Montreal, follows a young woman driven to suicide by a relentless work environment and an outraged investigator trying to get to the bottom of what happened.
Fantasia on closing night will also host a special screening for Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, which stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson.
Unveiling its third wave of titles, the genre fest will also hold world premieres for Yuki Tanada’s My Broken Mariko and Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez’s The Elderly.
There’s also North American debuts for Quebec auteur Denis Côté’s That Kind of Summer...
The Fantasia Film Festival is set to close with July Jung’s thriller Next Sohee, organizers said on Thursday.
Korean filmmaker Jung’s drama, which debuted by closing the Cannes Critics’ Week and will get a North American bow in Montreal, follows a young woman driven to suicide by a relentless work environment and an outraged investigator trying to get to the bottom of what happened.
Fantasia on closing night will also host a special screening for Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, which stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson.
Unveiling its third wave of titles, the genre fest will also hold world premieres for Yuki Tanada’s My Broken Mariko and Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez’s The Elderly.
There’s also North American debuts for Quebec auteur Denis Côté’s That Kind of Summer...
- 6/30/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Surprising as it may sound, the Korean film industry has had a rough time over the past couple of years. Get ready for a comeback.
Just at a moment when Korean film producers might have expected to capitalize on the unprecedented multi-Oscar success of “Parasite” in 2019 to just KRW173 billion (138 million) in 2021.
The film industry is now hoping for a trickle-down effect from Korea’s other creative sectors — music, TV drama, cosmetics and food — that will speed its revival.
“One of the first things I did after getting the job was to change the industry’s branding. No more ‘Korean Cinema.’ Instead, we should call ourselves ‘K-Movies,’ ” said Korean Film Council (Kofic) chairman Park Ki-yong. “It fits with the times.” Korea’s stand in the Cannes International Village has been appropriately rebadged.
K-Movies’ comeback is also likely to have a more international flavor, as foreign filmmakers come to Korea...
Just at a moment when Korean film producers might have expected to capitalize on the unprecedented multi-Oscar success of “Parasite” in 2019 to just KRW173 billion (138 million) in 2021.
The film industry is now hoping for a trickle-down effect from Korea’s other creative sectors — music, TV drama, cosmetics and food — that will speed its revival.
“One of the first things I did after getting the job was to change the industry’s branding. No more ‘Korean Cinema.’ Instead, we should call ourselves ‘K-Movies,’ ” said Korean Film Council (Kofic) chairman Park Ki-yong. “It fits with the times.” Korea’s stand in the Cannes International Village has been appropriately rebadged.
K-Movies’ comeback is also likely to have a more international flavor, as foreign filmmakers come to Korea...
- 5/21/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Further titles include ’Contorted’, ‘The Hill Of Secrets’, ’The Novelist’s Film’.
Korea’s Finecut has closed a string of deals led by Cheon Myeong-kwan’s action noir Hot Blooded and Hong Jun-pyo’s animation Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On, both set to Cannes market premieres.
Best-selling author Cheon Myeong-kwan’s directorial debut, Hot Blooded has sold to Japan (New Select), North America (Epic Pictures Releasing), Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia (Cj Enm Hong Kong), Philippines (Viva Networks)
Starring Jung Woo (Best Friend), Kim Kap-soo (Steel Rain) and Choi Moo-sung (Last Child), the film previously sold to The Jokers Films...
Korea’s Finecut has closed a string of deals led by Cheon Myeong-kwan’s action noir Hot Blooded and Hong Jun-pyo’s animation Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On, both set to Cannes market premieres.
Best-selling author Cheon Myeong-kwan’s directorial debut, Hot Blooded has sold to Japan (New Select), North America (Epic Pictures Releasing), Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia (Cj Enm Hong Kong), Philippines (Viva Networks)
Starring Jung Woo (Best Friend), Kim Kap-soo (Steel Rain) and Choi Moo-sung (Last Child), the film previously sold to The Jokers Films...
- 5/18/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Epic Pictures Releasing has licensed North American rights to Korean action film “Hot Blooded,” from leading Seoul-based film sales agency Finecut. The deal is one of several struck by the agency ahead of Cannes, where it is also launching sales on Critics’ Week title “Next Sohee.”
Starring Bae Doona and Kim Si-eun, “Next Sohee” is directed by Jung July, whose acclaimed “A Girl at My Door” played in Un Certain regard in 2014. It tells the tale of a detective probing the death of a call center worker.
“Hot Blooded,” the directing debut of screenwriter Cheon Myeong-kwan (“Whale”) was also licensed by Finecut to Japan (New Select), Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia (Cj Enm Hong Kong) and the Philippines (Viva Networks). These are in addition to previous deals for France (the Jokers Films), Thailand, Cambodia and Laos (M Pictures).
Finecut closed multiple deals on “Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On,” an...
Starring Bae Doona and Kim Si-eun, “Next Sohee” is directed by Jung July, whose acclaimed “A Girl at My Door” played in Un Certain regard in 2014. It tells the tale of a detective probing the death of a call center worker.
“Hot Blooded,” the directing debut of screenwriter Cheon Myeong-kwan (“Whale”) was also licensed by Finecut to Japan (New Select), Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia (Cj Enm Hong Kong) and the Philippines (Viva Networks). These are in addition to previous deals for France (the Jokers Films), Thailand, Cambodia and Laos (M Pictures).
Finecut closed multiple deals on “Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On,” an...
- 5/18/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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