Park Chan-wook Returns to Extreme Violence With $60M Hollywood Western

Lee Byung-hun <CJ ENM>Park Chan-wook has described his next film as the most violent work of his career. Speaking on August 29 at Seoul Art Cinema, during a special screening marking the 20th anniversary of "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK," ...

Lee Chang-dong Named Mill Valley Auteur Award Recipient

Poster for Possible Love <Netflix>Lee Chang-dong has been selected as the recipient of the Auteur Award at the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival. He is the first Korean filmmaker to receive the honor. In announcing the selection on September 3, Netflix also...

Squid Game's Hwang Dong-hyuk Returns to Cinema with Sci-Fi Thriller 'K.O. Club'

Lee Byung-hun <BH Entertainment>After the Netflix Phenomenon, Hwang Dong-hyuk Chose the Big ScreenWhat Hwang Dong-hyuk would do after Squid Game had been the most closely watched question in Korean content. Speculation ran in every direction: would the c...

Overseas Pre-Sales Bring Down Korean Films' Break-Even Points

Director Yeon Sang-ho (left) and actress Jun Ji-hyun at the press conference for Colony*, held on May 6 at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. <JoongAng Ilbo>Director Yeon Sang-ho's Paradise Lost recouped its entire net production budge...

Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love Has World Premiere as Director's First Venice Competition Entry in 24 Years

Actors Zo In-sung (from left), Cho Yeo-jeong, Jeon Do-yeon, and Sul Kyung-gu attend a press conference for Possible Love at Hotel Naru Seoul – MGallery Collection in Mapo District, Seoul, on August 25. <Yonhap News>Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love had ...

As Kim Hyang-gi, Park Bo-gum, Jung Hae-in and Kang Ha-neul Take the Mic, Korean Animation Rewrites Its Marketing Playbook

Posters for "Gill," left, and "David" / Courtesy of ATNINE FILM and Lotte EntertainmentKorean animation studios, long challenged by the absence of established franchises or built-in fandoms, are increasingly turning to A-list live-action stars ...

Announcement of Second-Half Selection Results for the KOFIC Co-Production Fund (KoCo Fund)

On September 1 (Tue), the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) announced the second-half selection results for the 2026 KOFIC Co-Production Fund (KoCo Fund).<2026 Second-Half KOFIC KOFIC Co-Production Fund (KoCo Fund)> Title Korean Prod. Foreign Prod. Director Su...

Bong Joon-ho's First Animated Film 'Ally' Turns to Humanity's Relationship with Nature

Ally ©2026 V8 Pistons Pictures.Bong Joon-ho confronted class conflict head-on in "Parasite," the 2019 film that swept four Academy Awards. With his first feature-length animated film, "Ally," the director's gaze is now widening from human s...

South Korea's 2026 Box Office Rebound: Genre Reliability Overtakes Auteur Prestige as the Industry Hits a New Inflection Point

Still from TAZZA: The Song of Beelzebub (Provided by CINE21)South Korea's theatrical market posted its strongest first half in years, with box office revenue reaching 579 billion won (approximately $414 million) and admissions hitting 57.05 million — up 41...

Director Shim Hyung-rae's D-War Enters Netflix Top 10 in 20 Countries

Director Shim Hyung-rae's 2007 film D-War has climbed to No. 6 on Netflix's global film chart. In France, Germany, and Italy, it rose as high as No. 2. This comes 19 years after the film's domestic release on August 1, 2007.Netflix added the film ...