SON Ye-jin and SO Ji-sub Come Together for Melodrama BE WITH YOU

Stars SON Ye-jin and SO Ji-sub will team up for the first time in the upcoming melodrama Be With You (working title). Based on the Japanese novel Now, I Am Coming to See You by writer ICHIKAWA Takuji, the project will mark the feature directing debut of LEE Ja...

THE BATTLESHIP ISLAND Plots Escape to 113 Countries

CJ Entertainment’s flagship summer title The Battleship Island has sold to 113 countries ahead of its domestic release next month. The WWII action drama is RYOO Seung-wan’s follow-up to his hit 2015 thriller Veteran. The title lured many buyers for CJ Entertai...

BATTLESHIP ISLAND Ends 6-Month Shoot

After a six-month shoot, RYOO Seung-wan’s Battleship Island, one of next year’s most anticipated films, wrapped production on December 20th on the Chuncheon set in Gangwon-do Province. The film stars HWANG Jung-min, SO Ji-sub, SONG Joong-ki, LEE Jung-hyun and ...

Filming for BATTLESHIP ISLAND Kicks Off Next Month in Chuncheon

RYOO Seung-wan’s Latest to Use 6,600㎡ Set RYOO Seung-wan’s next project, the World War II escape drama Battleship Island, is gearing up for filming, which will begin next month in the city of Chuncheon in Gangwon-do Province. It’ll be all hands on deck as sta...

SO Ji-sub Co-presents HIGH-RISE, a SF Thriller

Second Co-presentation Following A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT SO Ji-sub, a Korean actor who has starred in the films including A Company Man (2012) and will be seen RYOO Seung-wan’s Battleship Island alongside HWANG Jung-min in 2017, is co-presenting High...

RYOO Seung-wan and HWANG Jung-min Team Up Again for BATTLESHIP ISLAND

Period Escape Action-Drama Co-Stars SO Ji-sub and SONG Joong-ki Word first got out about director RYOO Seung-wan’s follow-up project to Veteran last Ocotober and now the action maestro has confirmed his main cast for the film, which is called Battleship Islan...

Korea-USA Co-production DEAD AGAIN Starts Production

A Horror Flick Co-directed by Korea’s KIM HAN Jung-ho and US director Dave SILBERMAN Korea-USA co-production Dead Again started production in Korea’s Gwangmyeong city on 8 August. The shooting took place in the Gwangmyeong Cave, where a 2014 Korean film Tunne...

LEE Mi-yeon Returns to Silver Screen with HAPPY FACEBOOK

Veteran Actress Plays a Professionally-Accomplished Single Mother           A Heroine of Korean melodramas in the early 2000s and best known for her role in the TV drama The Last Empress, veteran actress LEE Mi-yeon (Indian Summer) is ...

US Court Date Set for THE ATTORNEY

SONG Kang-ho Hit Goes to North America in February The Attorney, the current king of the Korean box office which has reigned for the past three weeks, has been picked up by Well Go USA for US distribution. The film will hit North American screens on February ...

Fantasia’s Fantastic Korean Line-up

Ten Films Invited to CanadaNorth America’s largest fantastic film festival has invited ten Korean films this year, demonstrating the enduring popularity of Korean genre cinema. Fantasia Film Festival, which takes place in Montreal, Canada, is due to unspool fr...