Rights to “I, The Executioner,” which will premiere as a Midnight Screening at the Cannes Film Festival this year, have been picked up by South Korea’s Cj Enm.
The crime-action film directed by Ryu Seung-wan (also written Ryoo Seung-wan) is a sequel to Ryu’s 2015 hit “Veteran” and in Korea goes by the title “Veteran 2.”
Few details of the story have yet been disclosed, but Cj describes the film as “combining Ryu’s trademark action with observations and messages about social change.” Ryu last year enjoyed major box office success with crime comedy “Smugglers.”
Hwang Jung-min, who recently enjoyed box office success in “12.12: The Day,” reprises his role from “Veteran.” He is joined in the sequel by Jung Hae-in (“Tune in for Love”) as a new member of the film’s Violent Crime Investigation Squad.
“I, The Executioner” was produced by Filmmaker R & K, the production shingle owned...
The crime-action film directed by Ryu Seung-wan (also written Ryoo Seung-wan) is a sequel to Ryu’s 2015 hit “Veteran” and in Korea goes by the title “Veteran 2.”
Few details of the story have yet been disclosed, but Cj describes the film as “combining Ryu’s trademark action with observations and messages about social change.” Ryu last year enjoyed major box office success with crime comedy “Smugglers.”
Hwang Jung-min, who recently enjoyed box office success in “12.12: The Day,” reprises his role from “Veteran.” He is joined in the sequel by Jung Hae-in (“Tune in for Love”) as a new member of the film’s Violent Crime Investigation Squad.
“I, The Executioner” was produced by Filmmaker R & K, the production shingle owned...
- 4/12/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
At some point, every pregnancy is a horror story. That’s the truth laid bare in author Danielle Valentine’s book “Delicate Condition,” the first-ever novel to be adapted into a season of the long-running anthology series “American Horror Story.”
Currently airing on FX, “AHS: Delicate” stars Emma Roberts as Anna, a former child actor who’s navigating sudden stardom and awards attention as she’s also trying to conceive a baby with her husband (Matt Czuchry). The show has been praised as a feminist update of “Rosemary’s Baby,” and has given reality star Kim Kardashian a role dreams are made of, playing a ruthless publicist who will stop at nothing to get her client an Oscar. But Hollywood trappings aside, “AHS: Delicate” is a body horror play.
“There’s a very specific discomfort, symptoms and horror of what a typical pregnancy can be,” Valentine tells Variety. “I’d been...
Currently airing on FX, “AHS: Delicate” stars Emma Roberts as Anna, a former child actor who’s navigating sudden stardom and awards attention as she’s also trying to conceive a baby with her husband (Matt Czuchry). The show has been praised as a feminist update of “Rosemary’s Baby,” and has given reality star Kim Kardashian a role dreams are made of, playing a ruthless publicist who will stop at nothing to get her client an Oscar. But Hollywood trappings aside, “AHS: Delicate” is a body horror play.
“There’s a very specific discomfort, symptoms and horror of what a typical pregnancy can be,” Valentine tells Variety. “I’d been...
- 10/4/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Following the powerhouse Netflix launch of his latest feature, the action thriller Kill Boksoon, Byun Sung-Hyun has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation.
A South Korean writer-director on the rise, Byun saw Boksoon debut as a Netflix Original in March after making its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The film centers on Gil Bok-Soon (Jeon Do-yeon), a contract killer and single mother who struggles to find the right balance between her personal and professional lives.
Byun’s latest debuted as the most watched non-English film on Netflix globally and remained in the streamer’s Top 10 worldwide ranking for over six weeks. Pic not only landed at No. 1 on Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched film chart in Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam, but also made the Top 10 in 82 other countries including Canada, Germany, Spain, Brazil and New Zealand.
First garnering international attention with his crime action flick The Merciless,...
A South Korean writer-director on the rise, Byun saw Boksoon debut as a Netflix Original in March after making its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The film centers on Gil Bok-Soon (Jeon Do-yeon), a contract killer and single mother who struggles to find the right balance between her personal and professional lives.
Byun’s latest debuted as the most watched non-English film on Netflix globally and remained in the streamer’s Top 10 worldwide ranking for over six weeks. Pic not only landed at No. 1 on Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched film chart in Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam, but also made the Top 10 in 82 other countries including Canada, Germany, Spain, Brazil and New Zealand.
First garnering international attention with his crime action flick The Merciless,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Byun Sung-hyun was baffled when he first learned that his feature film Kill Boksoon would be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival last month.
“I didn’t expect it at all,” he said at a press conference for Kill Boksoon held in Seoul earlier this month. “I thought Kill Bok-soon was not the type of film that would be selected by a festival like Berlin. It’s a genre film. But the screening took place in a theater of 1,800 seats and I was very moved to see the audiences empathizing with the story.”
The action thriller and Netflix original, which launches on March 31 on the streaming service, traces the story of a female assassin named Boksoon (played by the accomplished Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon) who is also a single mom to a teenage daughter. The contrasts of the heroine’s life as a killer and a mother is...
“I didn’t expect it at all,” he said at a press conference for Kill Boksoon held in Seoul earlier this month. “I thought Kill Bok-soon was not the type of film that would be selected by a festival like Berlin. It’s a genre film. But the screening took place in a theater of 1,800 seats and I was very moved to see the audiences empathizing with the story.”
The action thriller and Netflix original, which launches on March 31 on the streaming service, traces the story of a female assassin named Boksoon (played by the accomplished Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon) who is also a single mom to a teenage daughter. The contrasts of the heroine’s life as a killer and a mother is...
- 3/31/2023
- by Soomee Park
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has unveiled a trailer for Berlin-bound action drama “Kill Boksoon,” with Jeon Do-yeon, previous winner of the best actress prize at Cannes, in the starring role.
The film sees Jeon as Gil, a single woman juggling the demanding and conflicting roles of professional killer and mother to a teenage daughter.
Despite her unblemished track record as an assassin, Gil hesitates about renewing her contract at the killing company where she is employed and decides to spend time finding out what is gnawing at her daughter. But complications are never far away, such as discovering her next target is at a parent-teacher meeting.
She also finds herself in competition with another hired gun (portrayed by “Peninsula” star Koo Kyo-hwan) and under pressure from her employers, portrayed Sul Kyung-gu and E Som (“Samjin English Company Class”).
The movie will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section, which acts as...
The film sees Jeon as Gil, a single woman juggling the demanding and conflicting roles of professional killer and mother to a teenage daughter.
Despite her unblemished track record as an assassin, Gil hesitates about renewing her contract at the killing company where she is employed and decides to spend time finding out what is gnawing at her daughter. But complications are never far away, such as discovering her next target is at a parent-teacher meeting.
She also finds herself in competition with another hired gun (portrayed by “Peninsula” star Koo Kyo-hwan) and under pressure from her employers, portrayed Sul Kyung-gu and E Som (“Samjin English Company Class”).
The movie will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section, which acts as...
- 2/2/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
that doesn’t tell a story so much as it chronically bumps into one, “Hunt” — the directorial debut of “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae, who also co-wrote the script and plays the lead role — begins with a premise so primed for spy-vs-spy mind games that you can almost hear John le Carré licking his lips from beyond the grave.
It’s the early 1980s, North and South Korea are locked in a paranoia-driven cold war, and the Gwangju Uprising is still fresh in everyone’s minds. In fact, the massacre has left such a stain on the nation’s psyche that it even seeps into the Tarantino-esque alternate history that Lee spins here, providing some extra sogginess at the bottom of a self-serious popcorn movie in which the South Korean president is only a symbolic representation of the real Chun Doo-hwan.
Alarmed by the unrest and further agitated by rumors...
It’s the early 1980s, North and South Korea are locked in a paranoia-driven cold war, and the Gwangju Uprising is still fresh in everyone’s minds. In fact, the massacre has left such a stain on the nation’s psyche that it even seeps into the Tarantino-esque alternate history that Lee spins here, providing some extra sogginess at the bottom of a self-serious popcorn movie in which the South Korean president is only a symbolic representation of the real Chun Doo-hwan.
Alarmed by the unrest and further agitated by rumors...
- 5/20/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A victim of the Covid-19 pandemic and released worldwide on Netflix streaming platform in early April 2022 instead of in the cinemas, this South Korean spy thriller went on to become the third most viewed non English film globally for that week and in Asia it also topped the most streamed film list. Incidentally, Yaksha is an Eastern mythology spirit of the wilderness which can be both mischievous and benevolent.
Accused of bribery and stock manipulation, Mr. Lee, Chairman of the Sangin Group is under investigation by a Seoul based Prosecutor Han Ji-hoon, who is in the process of bringing him in. Being a powerful man with connections, the court lets Lee go free while Han finds himself humiliated and demoted to a position in the National Intelligence Services (Nis), a place where there is hardly any work for him to do. Nonetheless, a job meant for his boss comes up...
Accused of bribery and stock manipulation, Mr. Lee, Chairman of the Sangin Group is under investigation by a Seoul based Prosecutor Han Ji-hoon, who is in the process of bringing him in. Being a powerful man with connections, the court lets Lee go free while Han finds himself humiliated and demoted to a position in the National Intelligence Services (Nis), a place where there is hardly any work for him to do. Nonetheless, a job meant for his boss comes up...
- 5/19/2022
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
The easiest way to describe Kingmaker, the latest film from The Merciless director Byung Sung-hyun, is as the Korean equivalent of George Clooney's election drama The Ides of March, a film that incidentally used the English word 'Kingmaker' as its local title. Despite the clear narrative similarities between the films, however, which each chronicle the burgeoning relationship between an idealistic politician and a younger campaign strategist which eventually decays owing to differing election philosophies, it's unfair and reductive to compare them, for the simple reason that Kingmaker is a better film. The title of the film refers to Seo Chang-dae, played by Parasite's Lee Sun-kyun, a pharmacist in a harbor town in the early 1960s who harbors an ambition to do something more with his...
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- 4/27/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Byun Sung-hyun’s trajectory as a director has been an interesting one. Starting off with the low-key drama “The Beat Goes On”, he moved on with the sex comedy “Whatcha Wearin’?” Changing gears yet again, he directed the crime thriller “The Merciless”, which of course had its premiere and Cannes and was generally well-received by the audience. Cue four years later and his next project, the long-awaited “Kingmaker” is finally gearing up for a release in December, 2021, once again starring his “The Merciless” star Sol Kyung-gu, alongside Lee Sun-kyun.
Synopsis
A politician dreams of changing the world with an excellent campaign strategist behind.
Dreaming of changing the world, Seo Chang-dae takes part in Kim Woon-bum’s political campaign. To resist the current dictatorial ruling party, Seo adopts very aggressive propaganda campaign and it makes Kim become the strongest candidate in the opposition party. When ambitious Seo believes that unjustified means is necessary in politics,...
Synopsis
A politician dreams of changing the world with an excellent campaign strategist behind.
Dreaming of changing the world, Seo Chang-dae takes part in Kim Woon-bum’s political campaign. To resist the current dictatorial ruling party, Seo adopts very aggressive propaganda campaign and it makes Kim become the strongest candidate in the opposition party. When ambitious Seo believes that unjustified means is necessary in politics,...
- 11/15/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Byung Sung-hyun clearly likes working with Sol Kyung-gu. Their hit pairing in “The Merciless” was invited to Cannes whereas their second collaboration “King Maker” is also an anticipated release for this year.
While “King Maker” awaits release scheduling, it was announced that Sol Kyung-gu has also come on board Byun’s next film, a Netflix original movie tentatively titled “Kill Bok-soon”. Sources close to the production also claim that the actor will also be pairing up with actress extraordinaire Jeon Do-yeon, who has responded positively to the production. This would be the two actors’ third collaboration after “I Wish I Had a Wife” and 2019’s Sewol ferry disaster drama “Birthday”.
“Kill Bok-soon” is an action thriller that deals with the story of a female assassin, with Jeon playing the titular character. It is expected to go on the floors before the end of this year.
While “King Maker” awaits release scheduling, it was announced that Sol Kyung-gu has also come on board Byun’s next film, a Netflix original movie tentatively titled “Kill Bok-soon”. Sources close to the production also claim that the actor will also be pairing up with actress extraordinaire Jeon Do-yeon, who has responded positively to the production. This would be the two actors’ third collaboration after “I Wish I Had a Wife” and 2019’s Sewol ferry disaster drama “Birthday”.
“Kill Bok-soon” is an action thriller that deals with the story of a female assassin, with Jeon playing the titular character. It is expected to go on the floors before the end of this year.
- 8/3/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Korean cinema’s recent obsession with disaster movies continues and the latest to join the already released productions in the genre is probably the most high profile of them all. Featuring a blinding superstar-cast, “Emergency Declaration” also features a terrorist angle and is all set to premiere Out of Competition at Cannes Film Festival this month.
Synopsis
‘Emergency Declaration’: If an aircraft faces a potential disaster, and normal flight can no longer be maintained, the pilot calls for an unconditional landing.
Veteran chief police detective In-ho receives a tip about a man threatening a terrorist attack against a plane. While investigating, he discovers that the sus- pect has actually boarded flight no. KI501.
Despite his phobia of flying, Jae-hyuk decides to go to Hawaii for the sake of his daughter’s health. At the airport, he is distracted by a strange man who hangs around, speaking to them in a menacing way.
Synopsis
‘Emergency Declaration’: If an aircraft faces a potential disaster, and normal flight can no longer be maintained, the pilot calls for an unconditional landing.
Veteran chief police detective In-ho receives a tip about a man threatening a terrorist attack against a plane. While investigating, he discovers that the sus- pect has actually boarded flight no. KI501.
Despite his phobia of flying, Jae-hyuk decides to go to Hawaii for the sake of his daughter’s health. At the airport, he is distracted by a strange man who hangs around, speaking to them in a menacing way.
- 7/6/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) is proud to be returning in 2020 for its milestone 15th edition. Taking place from 29 October – 12 November the festival will be going digital for the first time, with 30+ films available online to audiences across the UK, prerecorded interviews, live Q&As and other virtual events, along with a selection of special cinema screenings taking place in London. Despite this year’s many uncertainties, the Lkff is pleased to be back, sharing its annual celebration of Korean cinema with fans all over the UK.
In a special treat for both committed cinephiles familiar with Bong Joon Ho’s feature film work and newcomers eager to discover more after the razor-sharp thrills of Parasite, the festival will be screening two shorts from the great director featuring his now trademark blackly comic social satire, available online and throughout the UK for the very first time. Incoherence (1994) marked the...
In a special treat for both committed cinephiles familiar with Bong Joon Ho’s feature film work and newcomers eager to discover more after the razor-sharp thrills of Parasite, the festival will be screening two shorts from the great director featuring his now trademark blackly comic social satire, available online and throughout the UK for the very first time. Incoherence (1994) marked the...
- 9/30/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: The London Korean Film Festival will celebrate its 15th anniversary from October 29– November 12 in both digital and physical forms. This is the first year the event will offer online screenings available to audiences across the UK, along with a selection of special cinema screenings in London.
The festival showcases major Korean titles as well as indies and comes at a time when Korean cinema has been riding a global high with the success of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar winner Parasite (as well as recent local breakouts Deliver Us From Evil and Peninsula). This year, Lkff will screen two of Bong’s shorts, mockumentary Influenza (2004) and early work Incoherence (1994); also showing will be a a rare on-screen Bong performance in Kang Dae-hee’s Some Light? (2009). These will be made available online and throughout the UK for the first time.
The opening gala on October 29 will present the European premiere of...
The festival showcases major Korean titles as well as indies and comes at a time when Korean cinema has been riding a global high with the success of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar winner Parasite (as well as recent local breakouts Deliver Us From Evil and Peninsula). This year, Lkff will screen two of Bong’s shorts, mockumentary Influenza (2004) and early work Incoherence (1994); also showing will be a a rare on-screen Bong performance in Kang Dae-hee’s Some Light? (2009). These will be made available online and throughout the UK for the first time.
The opening gala on October 29 will present the European premiere of...
- 9/22/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Cj Entertainment, the studio behind multi-Oscar-winner “Parasite,” is poised to remake Korean classic “Save The Green Planet” in English. It will produce with Square Peg, the Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen label behind recent breakout “Midsommar.”
The story is an eccentric and particularly black comedy involving a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman who he believes to be part of an alien invasion. A battle of wits ensues between the captor, his devoted girlfriend, the businessman and a private detective.
The 2003 original was a cult hit that collected prizes at fantasy festivals including those in Bucheon, Buenos Aires and Brussels, and mainstream events including Rotterdam, Tokyo Filmex, and Moscow. “Green Planet” earned Jang Joon-hwan the Golden Bell award for best new director in Korea the same year.
Jang is now set to direct the remake, from an English-language adapted script by Will Tracy (HBO’s “Succession” and...
The story is an eccentric and particularly black comedy involving a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman who he believes to be part of an alien invasion. A battle of wits ensues between the captor, his devoted girlfriend, the businessman and a private detective.
The 2003 original was a cult hit that collected prizes at fantasy festivals including those in Bucheon, Buenos Aires and Brussels, and mainstream events including Rotterdam, Tokyo Filmex, and Moscow. “Green Planet” earned Jang Joon-hwan the Golden Bell award for best new director in Korea the same year.
Jang is now set to direct the remake, from an English-language adapted script by Will Tracy (HBO’s “Succession” and...
- 5/7/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Parasite producer Cj is lining up another genre-bending treat. The Korean powerhouse is teaming up with Midsommar and Hereditary duo Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen on an English-language remake of cult Korean movie Save The Green Planet!
The off-beat, black comedy-sci-fi mashup from 2003 follows a man who believes the world is on the verge of an alien invasion and sets out to save the planet by first kidnapping his boss. Check out the wild trailer for the original below.
Cj, which also produced the 2003 film, will finance and produce alongside Aster and Knudsen’s Square Peg production banner.
The original film’s writer-director Joon-hwan Jang will return to direct the movie. Cj and Jang most recently teamed up on 2017 political thriller 1987: When The Day Comes. Will Tracy, writer on HBO’s Succession and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, has been tapped to write the adapted screenplay.
Executive producers...
The off-beat, black comedy-sci-fi mashup from 2003 follows a man who believes the world is on the verge of an alien invasion and sets out to save the planet by first kidnapping his boss. Check out the wild trailer for the original below.
Cj, which also produced the 2003 film, will finance and produce alongside Aster and Knudsen’s Square Peg production banner.
The original film’s writer-director Joon-hwan Jang will return to direct the movie. Cj and Jang most recently teamed up on 2017 political thriller 1987: When The Day Comes. Will Tracy, writer on HBO’s Succession and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, has been tapped to write the adapted screenplay.
Executive producers...
- 5/7/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Merciless” opened on 18th May 2017 in South Korea and topped the box-office selling 95,261 tickets. It had its World premiere at The 70th Cannes Film Festival 2017 on 24th May as part of the Midnight Screenings Strand. According to a number of reports, “The Merciless” received the longest standing ovation of all the South Korean films shown including “The Villainess” (Jung Byung-gil: 2017) and “The Day After” (Hong Sang-soo: 2017) at approximately 7 minutes. The film has since been sold to over 100 countries including India and the UK.
“The Merciless” screened at the London Korean Film Festival
Starring veteran actor, Sol Kyung-gu as Han Jae Hoe, the leader of a gang, and with Im Siwon as Jo Hyun-soo as his closest confidant, in what should be a break out role for him, “The Merciless” plays with the form and function of the South Korean the gangster genre or jop’ok (meaning organised game members...
“The Merciless” screened at the London Korean Film Festival
Starring veteran actor, Sol Kyung-gu as Han Jae Hoe, the leader of a gang, and with Im Siwon as Jo Hyun-soo as his closest confidant, in what should be a break out role for him, “The Merciless” plays with the form and function of the South Korean the gangster genre or jop’ok (meaning organised game members...
- 10/15/2019
- by Colette Balmain
- AsianMoviePulse
Korean indie sales company M-Line Distribution is handling rights to “Not in This World,” a drama by actor-director Park Jung-bum. The film has its premiere this week in the Korean Panorama section of the Busan International Film Festival.
“World” tells the story of a hermit, who is lured out of his lonely mountain existence by a woman, played by Moon Ye-ji, that he hears singing. But the man’s attempts to help her out of difficulties take him to an unexpected place.
Park is best known for his multi-hyphenate roles on “The Journals of Musan” and “Alive.” He produced “World” through his Secondwind Film company.
M-Line’s other standout offering at Busan’s Asian Film Market is the previously announced “Beasts Clawing at Straws.” The noir crime film features superstar Jung Woo-sung opposite Jeon Do-yeon, who earned the best actress award at Cannes for “Secret Sunshine.”
Adapted from a Japanese novel by Sono Keisuke,...
“World” tells the story of a hermit, who is lured out of his lonely mountain existence by a woman, played by Moon Ye-ji, that he hears singing. But the man’s attempts to help her out of difficulties take him to an unexpected place.
Park is best known for his multi-hyphenate roles on “The Journals of Musan” and “Alive.” He produced “World” through his Secondwind Film company.
M-Line’s other standout offering at Busan’s Asian Film Market is the previously announced “Beasts Clawing at Straws.” The noir crime film features superstar Jung Woo-sung opposite Jeon Do-yeon, who earned the best actress award at Cannes for “Secret Sunshine.”
Adapted from a Japanese novel by Sono Keisuke,...
- 10/5/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Extremely versatile actors Cho Jin-woong and Sol Kyung-gu both have sharp comic timings, but are rarely cast in comedic roles. Though Cho Jin-woong has had two such roles on the trot with “Intimate Strangers” and the recent “Jesters: The Game Changers“, Sol Kyung-gu hasn’t featured in one since 2013’s “The Spy: Undercover Operation”. The two will, however, be seen together in drama/comedy “Man of Men” from debutant director Yong Soo.
Synopsis
Jang-soo is a lawyer at a top law firm who will do anything for money. A medical diagnosis reveals that he doesn’t have much time left to live. Yeong-ki is a good-for-nothing gangster, but he dreams of having a perfect life. He performs court-ordered community service and meets Jang-soo, who decides to offer money to Yeong-ki if he will helps him complete his bucket list.
Though Cho Jin-woong has starred in films with a majority of South Korean superstars,...
Synopsis
Jang-soo is a lawyer at a top law firm who will do anything for money. A medical diagnosis reveals that he doesn’t have much time left to live. Yeong-ki is a good-for-nothing gangster, but he dreams of having a perfect life. He performs court-ordered community service and meets Jang-soo, who decides to offer money to Yeong-ki if he will helps him complete his bucket list.
Though Cho Jin-woong has starred in films with a majority of South Korean superstars,...
- 9/1/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Every once in a while, a good supporting actor breaks through the mould and makes his or her place as a dependable lead actor. Like Kwak Do-won, for example, who broke out with Na Hong-jin’s “The Wailing“, another actor who has consistently impressed on the sidelines is Lee Sung-min. 2018 was quite the turning point in his career, with a very important role in “The Spy Gone North” and his first ever lead in “The Witness“. Both the performances were highly praised and he follows them up with “The Beast”, the newest film from director Lee Jung-ho.
Synopsis
A criminal action movie about two detectives in conflict who solve a murder that shakes up the Korean peninsula.
The film, apparently a remake of the French thriller “36 Quai des Orfèvres” starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu, will be the third time that Lee Sung-min will be collaborating with Lee Jung-ho, having...
Synopsis
A criminal action movie about two detectives in conflict who solve a murder that shakes up the Korean peninsula.
The film, apparently a remake of the French thriller “36 Quai des Orfèvres” starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu, will be the third time that Lee Sung-min will be collaborating with Lee Jung-ho, having...
- 5/31/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: French powerhouse Pathé has struck major territory deals on its Cannes slate, including Keira Knightley pic Misbehaviour, Cannes film festival title La Belle Epoque and Emma Mackey starrer Eiffel.
Nicolas Bedos’s Out Of Competition comedy-drama La Belle Epoque, whose starry French cast includes Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Fanny Ardant and Doria Tillier, has sold to Germany (Constantin), Italy (IWonder Pictures), Latam/Spain, Japan (Kinoshita), Cis + Baltics (Volga), Portugal (Cinemundo), Romania (Independenta), Ex Yougoslavia (McF), Hungary (Cirko), Belgium (Alternative) and Greece (Rosebud 21). Pathé will release the French-language film in France and Switzerland in November 2019.
The movie tells the story of sixty-something Victor, who sees his life turned upside down when an entrepreneur offers him a unique new brand of entertainment allowing him to relive the most memorable moment of his existence. Producers are Les Films du Kiosque, Orange Studio and Pathé.
On the Croisette, Pathé showed...
Nicolas Bedos’s Out Of Competition comedy-drama La Belle Epoque, whose starry French cast includes Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Fanny Ardant and Doria Tillier, has sold to Germany (Constantin), Italy (IWonder Pictures), Latam/Spain, Japan (Kinoshita), Cis + Baltics (Volga), Portugal (Cinemundo), Romania (Independenta), Ex Yougoslavia (McF), Hungary (Cirko), Belgium (Alternative) and Greece (Rosebud 21). Pathé will release the French-language film in France and Switzerland in November 2019.
The movie tells the story of sixty-something Victor, who sees his life turned upside down when an entrepreneur offers him a unique new brand of entertainment allowing him to relive the most memorable moment of his existence. Producers are Les Films du Kiosque, Orange Studio and Pathé.
On the Croisette, Pathé showed...
- 5/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cj will distribute in Korea, with Pathé in France and Switzerland.
French production outfits Pathé Films and Vendôme Group are teaming with South Korea’s Cj Entertainment on an English-language remake of Korean box office hit The Merciless.
Directed by Byun Sung-hyun, The Merciless was shown out of competition in Cannes Midnight Screenings in 2017 and was sold by Cj to more than 117 countries worldwide.
Sol Kyung-gu and Im Si-wan starred in the original, about a prisoner who holds power over his fellow inmates and plans to take over a criminal organisation as soon as he is released.
The remake will...
French production outfits Pathé Films and Vendôme Group are teaming with South Korea’s Cj Entertainment on an English-language remake of Korean box office hit The Merciless.
Directed by Byun Sung-hyun, The Merciless was shown out of competition in Cannes Midnight Screenings in 2017 and was sold by Cj to more than 117 countries worldwide.
Sol Kyung-gu and Im Si-wan starred in the original, about a prisoner who holds power over his fellow inmates and plans to take over a criminal organisation as soon as he is released.
The remake will...
- 5/18/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The London Korean Film Festival 2019 presents the UK Premiere of “Default” at Regent Street Cinema, Monday 20th May
“The poor get poorer… unemployment becomes the norm…
we must not choose that world.”
Recent years have witnessed a boom in political dramas in Korea, with hits such as “A Taxi Driver” (2017) and “1987: When the Day Comes” (2017) bringing in audiences in their millions. The second teaser in our showcase, based on the true events of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, adds the dimension of a fast-paced financial thriller to this popular genre. Default is an affecting film that considers the human impact of the crisis alongside acerbic commentary.
The crisis occurred when large companies, aspiring to compete globally, began to take out massive loans for expansion projects. When these investments failed to achieve returns, a domino effect began that would result in nationwide debt and the impending crash of the economy…
Set...
“The poor get poorer… unemployment becomes the norm…
we must not choose that world.”
Recent years have witnessed a boom in political dramas in Korea, with hits such as “A Taxi Driver” (2017) and “1987: When the Day Comes” (2017) bringing in audiences in their millions. The second teaser in our showcase, based on the true events of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, adds the dimension of a fast-paced financial thriller to this popular genre. Default is an affecting film that considers the human impact of the crisis alongside acerbic commentary.
The crisis occurred when large companies, aspiring to compete globally, began to take out massive loans for expansion projects. When these investments failed to achieve returns, a domino effect began that would result in nationwide debt and the impending crash of the economy…
Set...
- 4/26/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The official selection of films for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival was announced earlier today, along with all the Asian films that will be participating at the Festival this year. While there are not many Asian films that feature this year, there are some big names and some interesting titles that have been selected.
Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite”
Going head to head are the latest films by Bong Joon-ho and Chinese director Diao Yinan. Bong Joon-ho’s latest family drama “Parasite”, starring Song Kang-ho and Lee Sun-kyun in leading roles, will screen In Competiton, where his last film “Okja” also participated. Five years after his Berlin Film Festival conquering thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, director Diao Yinan will also be competing with his latest film “The Wild Goose Lake”, which sees him reteam with his Silver Bear winning actor Liao Fan. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s travelogue film “It Must...
Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite”
Going head to head are the latest films by Bong Joon-ho and Chinese director Diao Yinan. Bong Joon-ho’s latest family drama “Parasite”, starring Song Kang-ho and Lee Sun-kyun in leading roles, will screen In Competiton, where his last film “Okja” also participated. Five years after his Berlin Film Festival conquering thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, director Diao Yinan will also be competing with his latest film “The Wild Goose Lake”, which sees him reteam with his Silver Bear winning actor Liao Fan. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s travelogue film “It Must...
- 4/19/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
This month’s FilMart rights market in Hong Kong was a busy one for South Korean indie sales house Finecut. It completed multiple license deals.
Berlinale Panorama title “Idol” was acquired by New Select for Japan and Apex Success Global for Taiwan. Directed by indie sensation Lee Su-jin the neo-noir thriller sees the story of a politician who faces the worst crisis of his career due to his son’s car accident. The film stars some of the best-known actors in the country: Han Seok-kyu (“The Berlin File”); Sul Kyung-gu (“The Merciless”) and Chun Woo-hee (“The Wailing”). Locally distributed by Cgv Arthouse, “Idol” opened in Korea on Mar. 20.
Action thriller “No Mercy” scored deals with Busch Media for German-speaking Europe, Borsalino for Latin America, Culture Entertainment for Japan and Av-Jet for Taiwan. Directed by Lim Kyung-tack and starring Lee Si-young, “No Mercy” revolves around a woman searching for her missing sister,...
Berlinale Panorama title “Idol” was acquired by New Select for Japan and Apex Success Global for Taiwan. Directed by indie sensation Lee Su-jin the neo-noir thriller sees the story of a politician who faces the worst crisis of his career due to his son’s car accident. The film stars some of the best-known actors in the country: Han Seok-kyu (“The Berlin File”); Sul Kyung-gu (“The Merciless”) and Chun Woo-hee (“The Wailing”). Locally distributed by Cgv Arthouse, “Idol” opened in Korea on Mar. 20.
Action thriller “No Mercy” scored deals with Busch Media for German-speaking Europe, Borsalino for Latin America, Culture Entertainment for Japan and Av-Jet for Taiwan. Directed by Lim Kyung-tack and starring Lee Si-young, “No Mercy” revolves around a woman searching for her missing sister,...
- 3/29/2019
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
The last time actor/singer Rain (aka Jung Ji-hoon) was seen on screen in Korea, it was in the 2012 film “R2B: Return to Base”, which was lukewarm at best. 6 years later, he is back to prove that the brilliant performance in his debut film “I’m A Cyborg, But That’s Ok” was not a fluke with the biographical film “The Cyclist King”.
Synopsis
A true story about Uhm Bok-dong, a Korean hero and winner from the time when Japan held a bicycle race in order to take over Korea during the Japanese Invasion.
Joining Rain in the film are Kang So-ra, Lee Beom-soo, Kim Hee-won and Min Hyo-ri. The film is expected to hit Korean cinemas in February, 2019.
Synopsis
A true story about Uhm Bok-dong, a Korean hero and winner from the time when Japan held a bicycle race in order to take over Korea during the Japanese Invasion.
Joining Rain in the film are Kang So-ra, Lee Beom-soo, Kim Hee-won and Min Hyo-ri. The film is expected to hit Korean cinemas in February, 2019.
- 1/17/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Lee starred in popular from hits such as zombie thriller Train To Busan and Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days.
South Korean outfit Showbox has sold action film Unstoppable, starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), to a raft of territories led by North America (Well Go USA) and Japan (New Select).
The prolific star - popular from hits such as zombie thriller Train To Busan and Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days – plays a once legendary gangster who has reformed himself to settle down with his angelic wife Ji-soo, played by Song Ji-hyo. One day he comes home...
South Korean outfit Showbox has sold action film Unstoppable, starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), to a raft of territories led by North America (Well Go USA) and Japan (New Select).
The prolific star - popular from hits such as zombie thriller Train To Busan and Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days – plays a once legendary gangster who has reformed himself to settle down with his angelic wife Ji-soo, played by Song Ji-hyo. One day he comes home...
- 11/1/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
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