All articles by Jean Noh – Page 84
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Karlovy Vary pick for Min Boung-hun's Grapevine
Korean director Min Boung-hun's Pruning The Grapevine has made it into the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) as an early selection.Min previously directed Let's Not Cry in 2001, winning multiple awards at the 37th KVIFF and the 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and The Flight of the Bee ...
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Dongsoong sets up production and distribution subsidiary
Korean arthouse distributor and exhibitor Dongsoong Art Center has set up a subsidiary, JinJin Pictures, to handle production and distribution, with a new additional focus on commercial films.JinJin Pictures chief executive officer Nan-sook Kim is at the EFM shopping for films with Tae-Won Jung from her Business Strategy Plan & ...
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New Korean buyer Inmoa launches at Berlin
New Korean importer/distributor Inmoa Entertainment has made its market debut at EFM this week. Thomas Kim, former acquisitions director at major Korean importer I Vision, has teamed up with Isaac Kwon, chief executive officer of IT venture Inmoa Communications, to set up this entertainment division. Kim, whose previous pick-ups include ...
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Cineclick sells rights to two features in Berlin
Cineclick Asia has closed deals on Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage to Italy and Forum title Ad Lib Night to Japan. Italy's Lucky Red president Andrea Occhipinti signed with Cineclick managing director Young-joo Suh after viewing a rough cut tape of Wang Quan-an's Tuya in Rotterdam. 'It was a discovery ...
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Stars announced for Kim Ji-woon, Yim Pil-sung features
Cineclick Asia has announced top-tier casting locked for two of its pre-sales films, Kim Ji-woon's The Good, the Bad, and the Weird and Yim Pil-sung's Hansel and Gretel, both from new production house Barunson. Cannes director Kim Ji-woon's film has three top-of-the-line stars to play the main heroes in the ...
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Korea's Core Studio picks up Singaporean Untold Beauty
Korean sales agent Core Studio has picked up worldwide sales rights for Singaporean writer-director Roy Lim's horror film Untold Beauty from Rebel Production Pte Ltd. France's Wild Side Films acquired French-speaking territories for the film at last year's Asian Film Market, making it the first ever pre-sale of a Singaporean ...
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Fortissimo to sell LIVE! worldwide
Fortissimo Films is handling worldwide sales rights excluding North America for Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag's LIVE! which is produced by Mosaic Media Group. A satire on the modern obsession with reality TV, the film follows an ambitious TV network executive played by Eva Mendes (Training Day, Hitch), who wants ...
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Easternlight opens in Singapore, schedules Dance Of The Dragon
Easternlight Films has opened a production and distribution arm in Singapore. Easternlight Film Productions' pictures will be sold internationally through partner company Easternlight/Arclight Films. The new outfit states it will be 'a first for Singapore, a one-stop shop for feature films from script development to post-production,' specialising in Asian content ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Berlin competitor Tuya's Marriage
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia has announced Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage as the latest addition to its EFM slate. The company picked up international rights to the Chinese film excluding French-speaking territories, BeNeLux, and Indonesia - which Pretty Pictures acquired at last year's Asian Film Market. Mainland China distribution ...
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Fortissimo takes on non-Asian sales for Blood Brothers
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide sales rights excluding Asia for Blood Brothers from CMC Entertainment and John Woo and Terrence Chang's Lions Rock Productions. Fortissimo will commence sales at the upcoming European Film Market. The London and New York University-educated Alexi Tan, discovered by Woo and Chang, is making ...
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Korean Film Commission plans US office led by Sun-young Moon
The Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) has announced plans to open an LA office within the first half of the year, as part of an initiative to step up support for Korean films and filmmakers in the US. 'The initiative works on two planes - the industry side and the academic,' ...
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New chairman for Korea Film Producers' Association
The Korea Film Producers' Association (KFPA) has voted in a new chairman - Tcha Seung-jai, head of leading production company Sidus FNH. He replaces Guardtec president Jonathan Kim, whose four years in the position have expired. Part of the first generation of Korean film renaissance producers, Tcha has shown increasing ...
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Korea's Showbox signs up for Confession
Hong Kong 's Media Asia Distribution has sold Korean rights to thriller Confession Of Pain to Showbox Mediaplex. Directed by the Infernal Affairs team, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, the film has grossed $8.8m (RMB68.4m) in China and a further $2.6m in Hong Kong since its release at Christmas. 'Media ...
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CJE to invest $85m in local productions in 2007
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has announced its 2007 business plan which includes investing $85m in more than 20 local productions this year, while at the same time expanding its global ties. 'While our local film industry was concentrating on sharing the pie instead of growing the market, domestic ...
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Hwang Jin Yi gains permission to shoot in North Korea
South Korean production Hwang Jin Yi, based on a North Korean novel dramatising the life of Korea 's most famous courtesan, has been granted permission to shoot in North Korea 's Diamond Mountains for a week starting Jan 28. Directed by Chang Yoon-hyun (Tell Me Something), the film portrays the ...
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MK Poly Cinemas to open first multiplex in Zhengzhou
Korean producer-distributor MK Pictures has announced that the first multiplex to emerge from its joint venture with Beijing-based Poly Group will open in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Jan 26. The six-screen multiplex, known as the 'MK Poly Cinema - Zhengzhou ', has already been through a month of ...
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Kim Ki-duk returns to the Korean fold with Breath release
Reversing his declaration that he would leave the Korean film world, controversial director Kim Ki-duk has announced a deal with Korean arthouse distributor Sponge to release his 14th film Breath in local cinemas. Sponge formerly released Kim's last film, Time, on eight screens last summer. It took in 30,000 admissions, ...
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Korean exports dip after five years of growth
After five years of growth, Korean film exports dropped 68% year-on-year in 2006. Exports totaled $24.5m - down from $75.9m the year before, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s year-end statistics.For the first time, Korean sales saw a slump in its main Asian markets, where its $17m takings represented ...
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Violin to be played as Korean-Chinese co-production
Korean entertainment company Vision Link Global is developing a $50m co-production entitled Melanie's Violin, based on Chinese author He Ning's novel of the same name, dubbed the 'Asian Schindler's List'. The company, which is headed by former M&A consultant Lee In-hyung, aims to raise 60% of the film's budget through ...
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Korean admissions up by 15% marking tenth year of growth
Korean cinema admissions increased by 14.6% to 166 million in 2006, marking the tenth year of growth, according to figures released by leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV. The admissions figure is the third highest in South Korean box office history and also marks the fifth consecutive year over the landmark ...