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Pyongyang festival opens with international line-up
North Korea's 10th Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sep13-22) opened yesterday with a programme of more than 70 features films fromaround 30 countries and 50 organisations. According to the isolationistcountry's Korean Central News Agency, the line-up includes theatrical andmade-for-TV films - with a competition and special screenings for films "highlyregarded" at ...
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Medavoy, Foster invest in Korean production house
Korea's Guardtec Inc hasannounced that Phoenix Pictures head Mike Medavoy and Mr & Mrs Smith producer Lucas Foster have bought into the firm,marking the first time that Hollywood players have directly invested in alisted Korean production company.The two US producers have also joined the company as advisoryboard members.Originally a securitysystems ...
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Pusan to present record 64 world premieres
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced itsline-up today with a record 64 world premieres. A total of 245 films from 63countries will show at the festival's 11th edition, running Oct 12 - 20. The inauguralAsian Film Market will run parallel to the festival from Oct 15-18, with 95registered sales ...
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Pusan to present record 64 world premieres
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced itsline-up today with a record 64 world premieres. A total of 245 films from 63countries will show at the festival's 11th edition, running Oct 12 - 20. The inauguralAsian Film Market will run parallel to the festival from Oct 15-18, with 95registered sales ...
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Pusan to screen long-lost Shin Sang-ok classic
This year's PusanInternational Film Festival (PIFF) will present Bound By Chastity Rule, a long-lost film directed by recentlydeceased Korean master Shin Sang-ok.The late director was knownfor decades of work, including Mother andThe Houseguest (1961), as well as forhis dramatic kidnapping to and escape from North Korea with his wife, actress ...
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Maundy Thursday set for April release in Japan
Korea's Prime Entertainment has announced that Song Hae-sung's Maundy Thursday will be released by AmuseEntertainment in Japan in April 2007.Amuse was an investor in the$4.2m film which revolves around the relationship between a man on death rowfor committing three murders and a woman who has attempted three times to killherself. ...
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The Host smashes record for Korea's biggest local film
Bong Joon-ho's The Host smashed Korea's all-time box office admissions record over theweekend, racing towards the record faster than any previous release.The monster sci-fi filmsurpassed previous record-holder King AndThe Clown's 12.3 million admissions on Saturday afternoon (Sept 2) with12.37 million admissions, and it's estimated that a further 90,000 were addedon ...
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Korean Screen Quota Action Alliance to hold Venice campaign
The Korean Screen QuotaAction Alliance has announced it is holding a campaign at the 63rd Venice FilmFestival, which started yesterday, to protest against the screen quotareduction.Director Ryoo Seung-wan,whose The City Of Violence isscreening out-of-competition at the festival, will spearhead the campaign witha solo protest on Sep 1, with other protests ...
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Korea's Mediaplex sets up production outfit
Korean major investor,distributor and exhibitor Mediaplex is stepping into production with a new unitcalled Motion 101, which will produce four to five films a year while also handlinginvestment and distribution.Mediaplex announced todaythat Motion 101 has been established with investment of $2.6m split 80:20 with computersystems firm Innet. Earlier this month, ...
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Kim Ki-duk stirs controversy in Korean film world
Maverick Koreandirector Kim Ki-duk, known internationally for filmsincluding 3-Iron, Samaritan Girl and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring,has renounced all his previous films as "trash" saying he will leave the Koreanfilm world after a public brouhaha started on a television debate program. On Aug 18, whileappearing on an MBC TV ...
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Korean court clears banned footage from President's Last Bang
Seoul CentralDistrict Court dismissed the defamation suit against ImSang-soo's ThePresident's Last Bang to be screened in its full version yesterday (Aug 10).Selected forCannes Director's Fortnight in 2005, ThePresident's Last Bang dramatises the events thatsurrounded authoritarian president Park Chung-hee'sassassination on the night of Oct. 26, 1979.The defamation suitwas brought by Park ...
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Im Kwon-taek recruited for Asian Film Academy
The Asian FilmAcademy (AFA) has announced master Korean cineaste ImKwon-taek as this year's dean for the TalentCampus-style intensive program for young filmmakers from Asia. In its secondyear, AFA is co-hosted by the Pusan InternationalFilm Festival, the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), and Dongseo University. The event, aimed at creating ...
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Korean film exports down 58% on last year
Korean filmexports for the first half of 2006 are down 58% year-on-year, according tofigures released by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Total exports came to$17.4m, compared to $41.8m in the first six months of 2005. The main reasonfor the sharp decline in sales is that Japan, Korea's biggest buyer, has ...
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The Host breaks Korean box-office records
Bong Joon-ho's Cannes hit The Host is breaking box-office recordsin Korea, taking theopening week record with more than 2.6m admissions, and the highestsingle-day admissions with 790,000 on Saturday, July 29.The previous record for opening week was held by Typhoon with 1.8m admissionslast year, opening on 540 screens; the highest single-day ...
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City Of Violence star set to make Comeback
Korea's LJ Film has announced plans for its first English-language actionfilm Comeback to be the directorialdebut of Jung Doo-hong, who also stars in recent The Weinstein Company pick-up The City OfViolence.Jung is well-known as amartial arts expert and action choreographer for box office hits such as KangWoo-suk's Silmido and upcomingswordplay ...
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King And The Clown rings Korea's Grand Bell
Korean box officerecord-holder King And The Clown,directed by Lee Joon-ik, swept Korea's 43rd Grand Bell Awards on Friday (July21).Nominated in an all-timehigh of 15 categories, the film took seven awards including best film, bestdirector and best leading actor for Gam Woo-sung who played a masculine courtjester.Lee Joon-ki, who shot tostardom ...
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Adam's Apples takes top prize at Puchon
The Puchon InternationalFantastic Film Festival (PiFan) held its closing ceremony yesterday with thetop Puchon Choice award going to Adam'sApples from Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen. Adam's Apples also won the best actor award, which was shared by Ulrich Thomsen andMads Mikkelsen, while best director went to Stormfrom Sweden's Mans Marland ...
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Hanbando, Sinking Of Japan both score on home turf
Korea and Japan came out of rainy three-day weekends with nationalistic blockbusters Hanbando and Sinking Of Japan topping their respective box office charts.As political tensionsbetween Japan and the rest of Asia heighten in the real world, Kang Woo-suk's action fantasy Hanbando tells the story of Japaneseinterference in North and South ...
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Korea's Puchon festival wins back industry support
The 10th PuchonInternational Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opened yesterday amid signs thatit's winning back industry support. This year's new festivalhead and programming team have been working for reconciliation with the localfilm industry after the ninth edition was widely boycotted over festivalpolitics. Festival director Lee Jang-ho said that being able to ...
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The Host generates advance bookings fever
Bong Joon-ho's sci-fithriller The Host is already whippingup unprecedented advance bookings in Korea, selling more tickets in a shorterperiod than ever before, according to producer Chungeorahm Film.Starting three weeks beforeits July 27 release, advance bookings for about 100 select theatres have beenselling like hotcakes, with the multiplex Megabox COEX site ...