Acemaker Movieworks, the young Korean studio behind 2023 hit “Noryang: Deadly Sea” and “A Man of Reason,” is using the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market to launch crime drama “Troll Factory,” its next big budget movie.
Film’s plot revolves around an investigative journalist who, while probing a story about the manipulation of public sentiment, uncovers the existence of a so-called “troll factory” and is confronted with an unbelievable truth.
The movie is in post-production and recently set March 27 for its theatrical release in Korea. Acemaker is unveiling first images now.
The movie is directed by Ahn Gooc-jin, whose debut feature, 2015 crime film “Alice in Earnestland,” won the Grand Prize at the leading Korean film festival in Jeonju, the best new talent award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the Directors’ Cut award at the Director’s Cut Film Festival. It was also invited to the Stockholm film festival.
Film’s plot revolves around an investigative journalist who, while probing a story about the manipulation of public sentiment, uncovers the existence of a so-called “troll factory” and is confronted with an unbelievable truth.
The movie is in post-production and recently set March 27 for its theatrical release in Korea. Acemaker is unveiling first images now.
The movie is directed by Ahn Gooc-jin, whose debut feature, 2015 crime film “Alice in Earnestland,” won the Grand Prize at the leading Korean film festival in Jeonju, the best new talent award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the Directors’ Cut award at the Director’s Cut Film Festival. It was also invited to the Stockholm film festival.
- 2/15/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
‘Hear Me: Our Summer’ is the remake of a popular Taiwanese romance feature.
Hive Filmworks has boarded sales of Hear Me: Our Summer, a Korean remake of popular Taiwanese romance feature Hear Me, and will launch the title at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) in Busan.
It marks the second feature of director Jo Seon-Ho, whose time-loop mystery A Day proved a hit on release in 2017 and sold to a raft of key territories around the world.
His latest follows a young man who works part-time at his parents’ lunchbox house and a woman who lives only to support her hearing-impaired sister,...
Hive Filmworks has boarded sales of Hear Me: Our Summer, a Korean remake of popular Taiwanese romance feature Hear Me, and will launch the title at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) in Busan.
It marks the second feature of director Jo Seon-Ho, whose time-loop mystery A Day proved a hit on release in 2017 and sold to a raft of key territories around the world.
His latest follows a young man who works part-time at his parents’ lunchbox house and a woman who lives only to support her hearing-impaired sister,...
- 10/7/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
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