Anthony Chen (“The Breaking Ice”) is attached to direct and Shinho Lee to write “Sunset Park” for Barunson C&c, a film and TV production subsidiary of Barunson E&a, the Korean company that produced Oscar-winning hit “Parasite.”
“Sunset Park” recounts a surprising journey in the U.S. made by a Korean father with his son’s room mate, after the man receives tragic news about his son. The project is being developed by Jane Hyojin Kwon (Lucky Jane Title) and Woo-sik Seo (Barunson C&c), with Chen’s production outlet Giraffe Pictures boarding as producing partner. New York-based Lee is the writer of Na Hong-jin’s breakout Korean actioner “The Chaser” as well as Wayne Wang’s drama film “While The Women Are Sleeping.”
The cross-cultural story is only one of several high-profile global projects that the company is launching in and around the Busan International Film Festival and on...
“Sunset Park” recounts a surprising journey in the U.S. made by a Korean father with his son’s room mate, after the man receives tragic news about his son. The project is being developed by Jane Hyojin Kwon (Lucky Jane Title) and Woo-sik Seo (Barunson C&c), with Chen’s production outlet Giraffe Pictures boarding as producing partner. New York-based Lee is the writer of Na Hong-jin’s breakout Korean actioner “The Chaser” as well as Wayne Wang’s drama film “While The Women Are Sleeping.”
The cross-cultural story is only one of several high-profile global projects that the company is launching in and around the Busan International Film Festival and on...
- 10/4/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
South Korea’s cinema box office slipped to its lowest level since mid-May as local film “6/45” took the top spot with just 3.06 million over the weekend in its second week of release.
Comedy “6/45” was released a week earlier and scored 2.74 million in its opening weekend, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). The latest weekend, then, represents an 11 improvement for the title. It increased its share of the market to 45 during the latest weekend and advanced its cumulative total to 8.36 million.
Depressed by a lack of significant new releases, the nationwide box office over the Friday to Sunday period, however, dropped to 6.75 million. This was the lowest scoring weekend since the first half of May.
Monthly data from Kobis shows August grosses were KRW14.9 billion, down from KRW16.3 billion in July, but almost double the figure of KRW7.9 billion in August 2021. Korean...
Comedy “6/45” was released a week earlier and scored 2.74 million in its opening weekend, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). The latest weekend, then, represents an 11 improvement for the title. It increased its share of the market to 45 during the latest weekend and advanced its cumulative total to 8.36 million.
Depressed by a lack of significant new releases, the nationwide box office over the Friday to Sunday period, however, dropped to 6.75 million. This was the lowest scoring weekend since the first half of May.
Monthly data from Kobis shows August grosses were KRW14.9 billion, down from KRW16.3 billion in July, but almost double the figure of KRW7.9 billion in August 2021. Korean...
- 9/5/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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