All articles by Jean Noh – Page 76
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Head of KOFIC An Cheong-sook resigns
Chairperson of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) An Cheong-sook has tendered her resignation to newly appointed minister of Culture, Sports & Tourism Yu In-Chon, citing personal reasons. Her three-year term, along with that of the other eight members of the 3rd KOFIC executive council, normally would end on May 27.In ...
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Fine Cut seals The Chaser remake deal with Warner Bros
Korea's Fine Cut has announced the $1m sale of remake rights for Na Hong-jin's thriller The Chaser to Warner Brothers. The no. 1 film, released Feb 14,has grossed over$20m (KW19bn) with 2.8 million admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s database as of March 6.In the film, a man ...
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Fine Cut seals slew of deals for The Chaser, Hansel And Gretel
Seoul-based sales agent Suh Young-joo's newly launched Fine Cut has announced a raft of deals from the European Film Market (EFM). Na Hong-jin's action thriller The Chaser did sales to Haut et Court for France, Cineart for Benelux, Seven Group for Greece, and Golden Scene for Hong Kong.At its opening, ...
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Buyers gobble up Showeast's Le Grand Chef
South Korean sales company Showeast has announced a raft of deals on Le Grand Chef post-EFM. The cuisine competition drama sold to ABC for the Benelux, Films sans Frontiers for France, Ayapro Production for Japan and Chungeorahm China for China.Based on a popular Korean manga series by Huh Young-man, the ...
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Rain to return to Berlin for Wachowski Brothers
Pan-Asian mega star Rain (aka Jung Ji-hoon) is set to star in the Wachowski Brothers' next film Ninja Assassin which is set to shoot in Berlin this year. Joel Silver is attached as producer on the Warner Brothers film. CEO Cho Dong-won of Rain's Korean agency J.Tune Entertainment announced the ...
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Seven Days director Won to tackle Robot Taekwon V
Fresh off the success of kidnap thriller Seven Days - to which Summit Entertainment recently acquired remake rights - Korean director Won Shin-yeon is gearing up to work on a live-action version of iconic Korean animation Robot Taekwon V. ShinCine Communications, which produced watershed pan-Asian hit My Sassy Girl and ...
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Seven Days director Won to tackle Robot Taekwon V
Fresh off the success of kidnap thriller Seven Days - to which Summit Entertainment recently acquired remake rights - Korean director Won Shin-yeon is gearing up to work on a live-action version of iconic Korean animation Robot Taekwon V. ShinCine Communications, which produced watershed pan-Asian hit My Sassy Girl and ...
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Korea's Sponge enters sales with Beautiful, Chungking
Major South Korean arthouse distributor Sponge Entertainment is launching international sales at the European Film Market (EFM) with Panorama title Beautiful - directed by Kim Ki-duk protege Juhn Jaihong - and Cannes and Berlin director Zhang Lu's upcoming Chungking. 'We're leaving the bigger films like Lee Yoon-ki's My Dear Enemy ...
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Pusanfestival co-directors to oversee Asian Film Market
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced that festival co-directors Kim Dong-ho and Lee Yong-kwan will now head up the Asian Film Market. Former co-director Park Kwang-su bowed out of the market position last December to focus on his filmmaking work as previously planned.PIFF deputy director and World Cinema ...
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Golden Network signs seven-picture deal with Sidus FNH
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has signed a deal with major South Korean production house and start-up local distributor Sidus FNH for worldwide rights excluding Korea to seven pictures. The films include hit Olympic drama Forever The Moment (aka Women's Handball Team), which was produced by MK Pictures ...
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Korea's Showbox sells M, Happiness to Japan
South Korean distributor Showbox Mediaplex has announced the sales of director Hur Jin-ho's Happiness and Lee Myung-se's M to Avex for Japan. The announcement comes on the heels of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s latest report on exports dropping by 50% last year, with flat fee and high minimum guarantee ...
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Jeonju unveils African trio for digital shorts project
South Korea's Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has announced three African directors - Idrissa Ouedraogo, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and Nacer Khemir - for its Jeonju Digital Project 2008, the festival's trademark shorts troika showcase. The festival provides each director with $53,000 to make a 30-minute short to be put in the ...
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Korean admissions up by 3.5% according to KOFIC
Korean admissions increased by 3.5% to 158.8 million in 2007, according toa year-end report by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), contradicting earlier figures released by exhibitor CJ CGV which estimated a 5.5% dip in admissions. However, KOFIC agreed with CJ CGV that the market share of local films was down ...
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Showbox picks up world rights to Kim's Dream
Seoul-based distributor/investor Showbox Mediaplex has picked up worldwide sales rights excluding Japan for celebrated Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s upcoming film Dream. Top Japanese star Odagiri Joe (Sad Vacation, Tokyo Tower) stars opposite leading Korean actress Lee Na-young (Maundy Thursday, Someone Special).The film tells the story of the mysterious connection ...
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Korea Fair Trade Commission clamps down on local majors
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) today announced it is clamping down on major multiplexes and distribution companies that are using their industry positions to end film releases early, and for altering profit-sharing rates. KFTC named Korea's four major multiplex chains - CJ CGV, Lotte Cinema, Megabox and Primus Cinema ...
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The home run
As communist Vietnam opens up to foreign and diaspora film-makers, the state-driven local film industry is looking to benefit from exposure to foreign film crews and investment. Yet ghosts remain and US directors are often refused entry on arrival. Not so The Rebel director Charlie Nguyen, who grew up in ...
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In focus - Korea on the World Stage
As much as the Korean film industry is dependent on theatrical profits, for several years it has also anticipated making money back on films from sales abroad - literally sending everything it produces to be sold internationally.But in the first half of 2007, Korean exports fell 57% year on year ...
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South Korea - The profitability factor
South Korea is no stranger to talk of a crisis in the film industry, even in the midst of years of swollen admissions, record-breaking local hits and rising exports.However, a recent study from the Korean Film Council (Kofic) estimates the average local film in 2007 to have earned back just ...
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Bae TV series set for Korean theatrical release
Korea's most expensive television series, Taewangsashin-gi, aka The Four Guardian Gods Of The King, featuring Korean Wave mega-star Bae Yong-joon, is due to hit local theatres in May. The announcement from producer Kim Jong-hak follows on the heels of the TV drama's theatrical release in Japan on 10 screens nationwide, ...
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Korean admissions down for first time inadecade
Leading South Korean exhibitor CJ CGV has announced its year-end statistics for 2007, with nationwide admissions taking a dip for the first time in 11 years. Total admissions numbered 157,525,412, down 5.5% since 2006, but still the second highest on record. Korean films market share fell to 50.8%, down 25.7% ...