South Korean sales agency Finecut has closed a raft of deals on titles including Next Sohee and Project Wolf Hunting ahead of this week’s American Film Market (AFM).
July Jung’s Korean crime thriller Next Sohee, which closed this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week, has sold to France and French-speaking Switzerland (Arizona Films Distribution), India and Indian subcontinent (Pictureworks), Japan (Rights Cube), Switzerland (Trigon) and Taiwan (Sky Films Entertainment).
Produced by Twinplus Partners Inc. and Crank Up Film, Next Sohee is set for release in Korea in the first half of 2023.
The company also added deals for Kim Hongsun’s Project Wolf Hunting, following deals in Asia, Europe and North America that were closed before its premiere in Toronto’s Midnight Madness last month.
The violent action-thriller has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella Entertainment), Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige and Switzerland (Capelight Pictures), France, Monaco, French-speaking Andorra and Overseas France (ESC Editions), Italy (Blue Swan Entertainment), Poland (Mayfly), Scandinavia (Njutafilms), Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Vietnam (Clover Films) and the UK (Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment).
Two genre films directed by newcomers – The Other Child and Next Door – have also added deals along with their domestic releases in October and November, respectively.
Director Kim Jin-young’s The Other Child, a psychological thriller about an adopted boy who sees the invisible, has sold to CIS (Kinoland), Japan (New Select), Vietnam (Lotte Entertainment Vietnam) and Taiwan (AV-Jet International).
In addition, Yeom Ji-ho’s black-comedy thriller Next Door has sold to Taiwan (Cai Chang International) and Japan (The Klockworx) following its world premiere at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) and subsequent screenings at Fantasia and New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF).
At AFM, Finecut is selling a slate of remakes including Christmas Carol, a thriller drama about twin brothers based on the novel of the same title by Joo Won-kyu; Park Jin-pyo’s action comedy Brave Citizen (working title), based on popular a Korean webtoon of the same title; Secret: Untold Melody, the Korean adaptation of Jay Chou’s hit Taiwanese fantasy romance Secret; and The Dinner, the first Asian adaptation of the bestselling novel written by Herman Koch.
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