ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Tops Blue Dragon Film Awards with 6 Wins

Ryoo Seungwan’s action-drama Escape from Mogadishu came away as the big winner of this year’s 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards. The box office hit picked up six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Ryoo.It was Ryoo’s third Best Director win at the awa...

Ryoo Seungwan’s SMUGGLING with Kim Hyesoo and Yum Jungah Wraps Production

Zo Insung and Park Jungmin Co-Star in 1970s-Set Crime FilmThough Escape from Mogadishu, the year’s biggest box office hit in Korea, is barely in the rearview mirror, director Ryoo Seungwan has already completed production on his next film.Smuggling (translated...

DP CHUNG Chung-hoon to Shoot STAR WARS: OBI-WAN KENOBI

Celebrated cinematographer CHUNG Chung-hoon, who has long been known as the visual stylist behind most of Director PARK Chan-wook’s films, from Old Boy (2003) to The Handmaiden (2016), has been hired as the director of photography for the upcoming Disney+ seri...

Director PARK Hoon-jung Inks Deal with STUDIO&NEW

STUDIO&NEW, a production arm of the major Korean investor and distributor Next Entertainment World (N.E.W.), has signed a pact with writer-director PARK Hoon-jung’s production company Goldmoon. The partnership, which will be supported by an equity investme...

NIGHT IN PARADISE to Debut at Venice International Film Festival

Though the Cannes Film Festival was forced to forgo staging an offline event this year, the Venice International Film Festival is set to return to the Lido in September and it will be bringing a new Korean film with it. Making his Venice debut will be Director...

RYOO Seung-wan Plots ESCAPE with KIM Yun-seok, ZO In-sung

Action maestro RYOO Seung-wan is preparing to get back in the director’s chair with Escape (working title), a new action-drama that could see him work for the first time with actors KIM Yun-seok and ZO In-sung, who are considering offers to star in the film. C...

CHUNG Chung-hoon to Lens Next Edgar WRIGHT Film

CHUNG Chung-hoon, the world-famous cinematographer who made his name by serving as the director of photography for most of director PARK Chan-wook’s defining works, has signed on to shoot the upcoming psychological horror Last Night in Soho, the next film of d...

MONEY to Cash In in March

Money, a new financial thriller from first-time director PARK Nu-ri which stars RYU Jun-yeol and YOO Ji-tae, has secured a March release date in Korea. Hot on the heels of the vehicular action-thriller Hit-and-Run Squad, which is currently in theaters for the ...

HWANG Jung-min Mulling Return as HOSTAGE

Korean star HWANG Jung-min is reportedly considering the project Hostage (translated title), a remake of the Chinese hit Saving Mr. Wu, as his return to the silver screen. The box office magnet was recently on screens in the acclaimed Cannes-screened drama The...

YOON Jong-bin and HAN Jae-duk to Form New Investment and Production Company

The Spy Gone North director YOON Jong-bin is setting up shop with SANAI Pictures head HAN Jae-duk. The director and the producer who have worked on a number of successful projects together will establish an as-yet-unnamed investment and production company. Dir...