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Kim to replace Shin as CJ international chief
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment has announced that head of International Business, David Shin, has stepped down. Former head of Domestic Marketing and Distribution, Kathy Kim, will take his place with an expanded role as head of International Business and Worldwide Distribution. Kim will continue to oversee distribution of foreign ...
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KOFIC and KEIC move toward new film insurance plan
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and the Korea Export Insurance Corporation (KEIC) today signed an memorandum of understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a Cultural Export Insurance specifically for films. The MOU was 'an agreement to work together to support the local film industry' - to explore ways to steadily ...
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Korea's Doosabu pacts with Polygon Entertainment
Korea's Doosabu Film has announced a deal for two effects-laden films with US-based Polygon Entertainment, headed by former ILM computer graphics supervisor Hans Uhlig. Uhlig's credits include The Perfect Storm and The Day After Tomorrow. The Korean company, which produced gangster comedy My Boss, My Hero and dramedy Sex Is ...
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Fox, Vertigo line up untitled thriller to shoot in Seoul
Producers Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and Bill Choi and Peter Kiernan of Management 360 are in Seoul scouting locations for an as-yet-untitled LA-cop-goes-to-Seoul project. The project, which is being developed at Fox Atomic, has been compared to the Michael Douglas-starrer Black Rain, which took an American police detective to ...
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The Show Must Go On takes best film award at Korea's Blue Dragons
Han Jae-rim's gangster drama The Show Must Go On nabbed Best Film and Best Leading Actor for Song Kang-ho at Korea's Blue Dragon Awards in Seoul on Friday.Hur Jin-ho picked up the Best Director award for his melodrama Happiness which portrays a love story between two terminally ill patients, starring ...
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Park Kwang-su to step down as head of Asian Film Market
Asian Film Market head Park Kwang-su is to step down from his position before the next edition. Press officer Janice Chung confirmed, 'Mr. Park has always said he would only stay a couple years to start the market up. We haven't fixed an exit date yet. He still has to ...
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Korea's CJ CGV, Lotte join forces for d-cinema
Leading Korean exhibitors CJ CGV and Lotte Cinema are setting up a 50:50 joint venture called D-cinema Korea to increase the use of digital projection in theatres. Although digital cinema has been available in Korean theatres since 2005, only 107 (or about 5%) of the 1,980 screens in South Korea ...
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Jang to direct Korean remake of A Better Tomorrow
Veteran Korean filmmaker Jang Hyun-soo is attached to direct the Korean remake of John Woo's classic 1980s Hong Kong action film A Better Tomorrow. Jang's most recent film, Everybody Has Secrets (2004) starring Lee Byung-hun and Choo Sang-mee, was a sexy romantic comedy, but he is best remembered for noirish ...
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Showbox snaps up Konchalovsky's Nutcracker
Major Korean distributor Showbox Mediaplex has bought Andrei Konchalovsky's Nutcracker: The True Story from Odyssey Entertainment. The deal follows Showbox's acquisition of Chilled In Miami from Mandate International, which was announced yesterday.Nutcracker is based on the story that inspired the well-known ballet and stars John Turturro, Nathan Lane and Dakota ...
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Home Song Stories wins top prize at Hawaii fest
The 27th Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) presented its awards today with the Golden Orchid for best narrative feature going to Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories. The film is about a Shanghai nightclub singer who emigrates to Australia with her son and daughter, and the hardships they go through ...
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Crossing joins Cineclick Asia's multinational slate
Seoul-based sales agent Cineclick Asia has picked up Crossing, a film from Volcano High director Kim Tae-kyun, for its multinational AFM slate. The film is about a North Korean ex-soccer player who crosses illegally into China, where he desperately tries to find a way to get his son and pregnant ...
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Hawaii film fest opens with Flight Of The Red Balloon
The 27th Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) kicked off its 11-day programme with Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Flight Of The Red Balloon on Oct 18. The festival will present more than 150 films from around the world, including Julian Schnabel's Diving Bell And The Butterfly from this year's ...
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PUSAN: New Currents Awards presented to three films
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF)gave awards tothree films in its New Currents section of up-and-coming Asian directors, which is the only competitive section of the festival. The three films, which were awarded with $30,000 each, were Life Track by Guang Hao Jin (China/Korea), Flower In The Pocket by Seng ...
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PUSAN: Cineclick sells package to Middle East
Seoul-based sales agent Cineclick Asia has announced a flurry of sales to three territories - the Middle East, Japan and Hungary - at the Asian Film Market, headlined by Kim Ki-duk's Breath, which looks set to be the first Korean film theatrically released in the Arab regions. Ghassan Production and ...
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PUSAN: CJ strikes four-film deal with Splendid
In the midst of a subdued Asian Film Market, Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has clinched a four-film deal with Splendid Film for German-speaking territories and the Benelux. The package showcases CJ's first US-Korea co-production West 32nd, which is playing in the Pusan film festival and made its market debut here. ...
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PUSAN: b.o.m. to handle sales on Hong's Night And Day
Renowned Korean arthouse director Hong Sang-soo (Woman Is the Future Of Man) wrapped production on his eighth film Night And Day last week (Oct 2), with major Korean production company b.o.m. Film Productions repping the film internationally. 'Depending on what kind of sales deals we do - if for instance ...
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PUSAN: Casting directors discuss cultural differences
International casting directors, including Tokyo-based Yoko Narahashi and Susan Shopmaker from the US, talked about the differences in casting practices between their respective territories in a seminar at Pusan on Monday. Part of the Co-prod PRO and Star Summit Asia programmes, the panel also featured Sung-hye Park from Korean talent ...
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PUSAN: iHQ unveils Korea-Taiwan co-production Island
Seoul-based sales agent iHQ has announced an English-language Korea-Taiwan co-production, Island, to be directed by Taiwan's Leste Chen (The Heirloom). The film tells the story of two families who go for a vacation on a deserted island that creates murderous doppelgangers of anyone who sets foot on it. Chen previously ...
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PUSAN: Motion 101 makes first strike with The Fist
Showbox Mediaplex affiliate Motion 101 has announced its first production will be The Fist (working title) by Park Kwang-hyun, the director of 2005 hit Welcome To Dongmakgol. Taesung Jeong, former COO at the major distributor Showbox, moved to Mediaplex's production shingle as of Aug 1 to focus on the upstart ...
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PUSAN: Irving, Baek to star in Fire Circle's Hanji Box
US actress Amy Irving is to star in the first US-Korea co-production to shoot in Seoul with funding and support from the Seoul Film Commission (SFC). Fire Circle Films announced the project at Pusan, in preparation for a round of co-production meetings they are planning for the market. Based on ...