All articles by Jean Noh – Page 86
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PUSAN: Cineclick Asia sells horror duo to Wild Side
On the third day of theAsian Film Market, Cineclick Asia has announced a raft of sales to France's Wild Side Films and Thailand's J-bics.Wild Side has picked upFrench-speaking rights to upcoming horror film Hanzel And Gretel to be directed by Yim Pil-sung (Antarctic Journal). The film hypothesises whathappens to the ...
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PUSAN: FDL participants pitch new projects at Pusan
Participants in the KoreanFilm Council (KOFIC)'s inaugural Filmmakers' Development Lab (FDL) are on handin Pusan to pitch the scripts developed at the week-longworkshop.FDL selected five emergingKorean and Korean-American writer-directors and paired each one withestablished film professional mentors from the US and Korea. Modeled on similar creativeprojects such as the Sundance ...
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PUSAN: CJ CGV to open Shanghai multiplex this week
Leading Korean exhibitor CJCGV has announced that its first mainland China multiplex will open in Shanghai on Oct 22.With over 1,000 seats, themultiplex will comprise six screens, including one VIP screen with only 38seats and premium class service that includes food and beverages. CJ CGV saysthe theatre has been certified ...
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PUSAN: Taewon unveils Resurrection at Asian Film Market
Korea's Taewon Entertainment took advantage of the firstday of the Asian Film Market to promote its upcoming project Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon.MaggieQ has joined Andy Lau in the cast of the epic actioner, which Taewon isco-producing with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production.Recently featured in Mission: Impossible3, Q ...
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PUSAN: Keyeast strikes investment deal with CJ
Korean media contents firmKeyeast has announced a production investment deal with major distributor CJEntertainment for three films, including Park Chan-wook's I'm A Cyborg, But It's OK.According to the deal, Keyeastis to invest a total of $530,000 in three films in which CJ Entertainment isthe main financier. Profits including those from ...
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PUSAN: Pan-asian star power lights up Pusan opening
The 11th Pusan InternationalFilm Festival (PIFF) opened last night with a star-studded turnout and the worldpremiere of Kim Dai-seung's Traces OfLove. The opening ceremony waspresided over by veteran Korean actor Ahn Sung-ki (Silmido) and "national little sister" Moon Geun-young (My Little Bride) who remarked upon thefestival's record 64 world premieres ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan
Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP)has announced 36 projects for its ninth edition, to be held Oct 15-18 duringthe Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Originally a co-productionmarket for Asian projects, the PPP is renewing itself under the inaugural umbrellaof the Asian Film Market with more commercially-oriented fare than in previousyears, along with ...
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PUSAN: Korean sellers out in force at first Asian Film Market
As the inaugural Asian FilmMarket (Oct 15-18) gets underway on Sunday, sales companies from the hostterritory will be laying out strong slates reflecting the current state of the boomingSouth Korean production industry. Box office records for localfilms are constantly being toppled and in September local product had an 83%share. And ...
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Pusan 2006 - a Screen guide
Asia's highest-profile film event, the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) is launching intoits second decade with characteristic energy. Its 11th edition is showcasing nofewer than 245 films from 63 countries - a record 64 of which are worldpremieres."In the past 10years, PIFF has grown to become the most important Asian ...
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Korea's Screen Quota alliance to stage Pusan protest
Korea's Screen Quota Action Alliance has announced it will hold a silentprotest in the hour before the opening ceremony of the Pusan International FilmFestival (PIFF) tomorrow (Oct12). The protest - to have the146-day local film screening quota reinstated - will be headed by King And The Clown star Lee Joon-ki ...
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War Of Flowers tops Korean holiday box office
Local films headed by cardshark drama War Of Flowers took thetop four spots at the Korean box office over the four-day Chuseok holidayweekend.Distributed by CJEntertainment, War Of Flowers has clockedup 2.75 million admissions since it opened on Sept 28, according to the KoreanFilm Council's box office ticketing system.The flashy drama, ...
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German film takes top prize at Pyongyang festival
North Korea's Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sep 13-22) awardedDennis Gansel's Napola as best film atthe closing ceremony in the People's Palace of Culture.The German film is about ayoung boxer at one of Hitler's elite schools for future heads of the Naziworld. More than 70 films from atleast 30 countries were ...
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German film takes top prize at Pyongyang festival
North Korea's Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sep 13-22) awardedDennis Gansel's Napola as best film atthe closing ceremony in the People's Palace of Culture.The German film is about ayoung boxer at one of Hitler's elite schools for future heads of the Naziworld. More than 70 films from atleast 30 countries were ...
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Prime, CJ CGV to collaborate on multiplexes
Start-up Korean studio, PrimeEntertainment, has signed a memorandum of understanding with leading exhibitorCJ CGV for a strategic partnership to collaborate on multiplexes. At its launch at thebeginning of this year as an integrated producer-distributor-exhibitor, Primehad threatened to flex its real estate muscle by terminating CJ CGV leases onthe multiplex buildings ...
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Feng enlists Korean expertise for war epic
Chinese director FengXiaogang, whose latest film The Banquetis currently topping the box office across Asia, is working with crew membersfrom Korea's MK Pictures on his upcoming war epic, tentatively entitled The Assembly. Speaking at a Korean press conferencefor The Banquet, Feng said he was a fanof Kang Jegyu's blockbuster war ...
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King And The Clown selected as Korea's Oscar entry
The Korean Film Council(KOFIC) has announced Lee Joon-ik's KingAnd The Clown as Korea's official entry for best foreign-language film inthe 79th Academy Awards. The sleeper hit, which brokelocal box office records earlier this year, was up against Kim Ki-duk's Time and Bong Joon-ho's The Host - which in turn broke ...
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Korean train office launches first-run cinema scheme
Korea's office of railroads,Korail, has announced it is to screen films that are on release in itshigh-speed KTX trains starting December. The cinema train patent belonging toKorail is the first in the world.TheKTX trains, similar to France's TGV, run at 300km perhourKorailsigned a memorandum of understanding with Cinewood Entertainment today ...
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Gang to star in Lee Myung-se's M
Korea's Core Studio has announced that Gang Dong-won will star in M, the next project from Lee Myung-se,director of Duelist and Nowhere To Hide.Selected for the upcomingPPP, M is a mystic melodrama about awriter who is suffering from constant dejà vu as he falls for a mysteriousgirl. The film is ...
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Korean telco to install 100 digital cinema systems
Korea's leading telco KT Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding withexhibitors Lotte Cinema, Cinus and MMC to install 100 digital cinema systems intheir theatres by the end of the year.The move is part of KT'splan to install digital cinema systems in more than 500 screens, which isaround 30% of ...
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Bong and Park to team on comic book adaptation
Old Boy directorPark Chan-wook is to produce a film directed by Bong Joon-ho, whose latestmovie The Host recently became Korea's top-grossing local film of all time. The project, which Bong iscurrently developing, is based on the French sci-fi comic Le Transperceneige, created by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Lob.Park's production house,Moho ...