KIM Jee-woon to Direct 8K Romance for Samsung

Director KIM Jee-woon is partnering with Samsung to make Untact, a new romance film starring KIM Go-eun (Tune in for Love, 2019) and KIM Ju-hun (Memoir of a Murderer, 2017). The short film is being shot on Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 devices to dem...

CGV Strikes Deal for 1st Hollywood ScreenX Title

During a presentation held last week in their theater CGV Yongsan, Seoul, CJ CGV announced that their 270-degree immersive screening technology ScreenX will be adopted for the first time in a Hollywood film. The project is We Kill Death and will be directed by...

THE HIMALAYAS Marks First ScreenX Foray in US

JK Film Blockbuster Climbs Over 7 Million Viewers The CJ Entertainment blockbuster The Himalayas, produced by JK Film (Ode to My Father, 2014), became the first film to show in ScreenX, a 270-degree screening format that projects images on the side walls of a...

CJ CGV Becomes World’s Top 5 for Number of Admissions

The multiplex CJ CGV became world’s fifth brand theatre to have sold more than 100 million tickets this year. On December 22nd, CGV has announced that “The accumulated admissions this year has exceeded 100 million, the fifth in the world to have reached this n...

KIM Jee-woon to Helm Ed Brubaker’s COWARD

Following his Hollywood debut earlier this year, the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand, Korean genre auteur KIM Jee-woon has been offered a new directing gig in tinseltown. This time, the revered filmmaker will tackle Coward, an adaptation of the fi...

Guests Confirmed for This Year’s BIFF Open Talks

Directors and Stars Gather from Korea, China and Japan Guests for this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF)have been finalized. ‘Open Talk,’ where guests of invited films can communicate with spectators, will be held on the outdoor stage of the BIF...

KIM Jee-woon’s THE X to Premier at Busan

THE WOLF BRIGADE Pushed Back The X by KIM Jee-woon, the director of A Bittersweet Life (2005) and The Last Stand, will premiere at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). The X has been officially invited to be a Gala Presentation at the BIFF, w...