All articles by Jean Noh – Page 69
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Red Cliff II scales Korea's Lunar New Year box office
The second part of John Woo's action epic Red Cliff topped South Korea's Lunar New Year holiday charts, with the film grossing $2.7m since its release on Jan 22. Distributed locally by co-financier Showbox Mediaplex, the film took in 588,683 admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s integrated box ...
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CJ picks up two KAFA films debuting in the Berlinale
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to two Berlinale Forum films - Members Of The Funeral and The Day After - both from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)'s inaugural cycle of feature-length graduation films. Set for its international premiere in Berlin, Baek Seung-bin's debut ...
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Katharine Kim appointed CEO ofCJ Entertainment
Katharine Kim has been appointed CEO of leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment. She replaces Kim Joo-sung, who was appointed to head cable company CJ Media in a slew of executive movements announced by conglomerate parentCJ Group yesterday. Having joined CJ Entertainment in 2005, Katharine Kim has become the first woman ...
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M-Line Distribution picks up Scandal Makers and A Frozen Flower
Sales agent M-Line Distribution has picked up international sales rights to top Korean box office hits Scandal Makers (a.k.a. Overspeed Scandal) and A Frozen Flower. Scandal Makers has been an unexpected hit comedy starring Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) as a former pop star confronted by not one, but two ...
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird tops nominations for Asian Film Awards
The Good, The Bad, The Weird - Kim Jee-woon's rollicking Oriental Western -has racked upeight nominations for this year's Asian Film Awards, including those for best film, director and cinematographer. Song Kang-ho picked up a nod for best actor, while Jung Woo-sung and Lee Byung-hun both got nominated in the ...
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Asia-Pacific Box-Office Round-Up - China in the black as many see red
China continued its box-office surge in 2008, with a 26.7% rise on the previous year. Box-office receipts in China finished at $617.1m (rmb4.2bn) according to figures from the Film Bureau under the State Administration of Radio, Film And Television (Sarft) - the sixth year in a row the territory has ...
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Naomi Kawase, Lav Diaz join Hong on Jeonju Digital Project
The 10th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF)'s three-part digital omnibus this year will feature short films from Japan's Naomi Kawase and the Philippines' Lav Diaz in addition to the previously announced short from Korea's Hong Sang-soo. The Jeonju Digital Project 2009 omnibus will premiere at JIFF which runs this year ...
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Korean admissions down 5.3% according toCJ CGV
Leading South Korean exhibitor CJ CGV has reported that the nation's total admissions for 2008 came to 149.18 million, down 5.3% year-on-year according to in-house tallies which are based on reported figures and estimates. CJ CGV put the local market share at 42.5%, down 8.3% from last year. Total admissions ...
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Korea's Lotte Cinema opens third multiplex in Vietnam
South Korea's Lotte Cinema has today opened its third multiplex in Vietnam. The six-screen, 1,400-seat cinema is located in the Phu My Hung (a.k.a. Saigon South) area of Ho Chi Minh city. The cinema has been opened inside a Lottemart shopping mall. Phu My Hung is a newly developed, affluent ...
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Korea's Gyeonggi province retools incentive programme
South Korea's Gyeonggi province has announced a 10% rebate incentive for film and TV drama productions shooting on location in the region, to replace its previous incentive programme. The new incentive programme goes into effect Jan 1, 2009 - replacing the outgoing programme that offered up to $100,000 for two ...
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KOFIC awards Filmmakers Development Lab grant to Danny Lee
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced Danny Lee as the winner of the 2008 KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab (FDL) grant of $15,000 for his feature film script Winter War. Winter War is a gritty thriller about Paul, an ambitious young commodities trader who gets sucked into the underworld of ...
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Hong Sang-soo to take part in Jeonju Digital Project
Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo is participating in Jeonju Digital Project 2009, the trifecta omnibus produced by Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF). In an early announcement on the project, JIFF announced Hong's short film Disappointment completed production last month and is now in post-production.The film is set in Jeonju (a ...
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Warner Bros to release Dark Knight on VOD before DVD in Korea
Warner Brothers Digital Distribution in Korea will put Dark Knight out on video-on-demand (VOD) Dec 5 - two weeks before the DVD release, making it the first time a major Hollywood studio gives a blockbuster a 'pre-DVD VOD' release.Dark Knight will go on IPTV providers Mega TV - owned by ...
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NewsShowbox Mediaplexpicks up Breathless, The Pot from Pusan line-up
Korea’s Showbox Mediaplex has picked up for international sales two independent films -Yang Ik-june’s Breathless and Kim Tae Gon’s The Pot - from the recent Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) line-up.
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Warner Brothers content to go on KTF mobiles in Korea
Korean mobile internet provider KTF will be offering latest Warner Brothersmovies and TV series in a specialscreening section starting tomorrow (Nov 26). KTF's Warner Brothers special section will feature 150items including hit movies such as Speed Racer and the Harry Potter and Matrix series, as well as popular TV shows ...
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Koreainvests $271m in manga, animation, character-merchandising
South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism is planning to invest $271m (KW410bn) in the manga, animation and character-merchandisingindustries to develop 'one-source, multi-use (OSMU)killer content' by 2013. Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Yu In-chon today announced a plan to invest $33m in manga, $66m in animation, $39.6m in ...
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Forever The Moment wins bestfilm at Korea's Blue Dragons
South Korean Director Yim Soon-rye's Forever The Moment walked away with the best picture award at the 29th Blue Dragon Awards in Seoul.Based on the true story of the Korean women's handball team for the 2004 Athens Olympics, the film made $26m at the box office and was the first ...
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GTH horror Coming Soon to Eastern Europe
Thailand's GMM Tai Hub (GTH) has announced a raft of AFM sales led by horror title Coming Soon, directed by Shutter co-scriptwriter Sophon Sakdaphisit, which sold to Mido Films Brno for the Czech Republic, Bir Film for Turkey and Queen Films for Indonesia. After opening Oct 30, the $1.2m film ...
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Korea's UP sells Frozen Flower to Germany and Japan
Korea's United Pictures (UP) has sold director Yu Ha's upcoming period piece A Frozen Flower to Splendid for Germany and the Benelux, and to KNTV for Japan - for a cumulative total of $1.5m at the AFM. The Japan deal was said to have been for more than $1m.Lee Tae ...
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Stylejam sells Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window in UK
Japanese independent Stylejam has sold director Yosuke (Tora) Fujita's comic love triangle story Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window Film for the UK. Stylejam also sold two films starring Joe Odagiri - humorous wedding feud story Then Summer Came to Cinema Valley for Korea, and Satoshi (In The Pool) ...