RYU Seung-ryong Kicks Off 2019 with Lunar New Year Comedy and Netflix Original Series

Kicking off the new year in style will be box-office draw RYU Seung-ryong, who is headlining both the Lunar New Year theatrical release Extreme Job and Kingdom, the first Korean Netflix Original series, both of which will premiere in January. A veteran charact...

New Korean Sales Company Picks Up THE OUTLAWS 2 and More

K-Movie Entertainment, a brand new Korean sales outfit that was established in August and launched at the Asian Film Market in Busan last month, has revealed a trio of major pickups to add to its burgeoning slate. All currently in pre-production, the titles in...

BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE Claims Early Sales

Korean master BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite, his highly anticipated return to the Korean film industry after ten years, recently wrapped production and has already locked several key sales deals. CJ Entertainment, which is financing and distributing BONG’s new film,...

CJ Entertainment Ventures onto the Croisette with THE SPY GONE NORTH

Korea’s CJ Entertainment returns to the official selection at Cannes for the fourth year on the trot with their upcoming North Korea-themed espionage drama The Spy Gone North (2017). Meanwhile, the company is also busy on the Marché floor with a heavy lineup o...

CJ Takes TAKE POINT to Market in Berlin

Top Korean distributor CJ Entertainment is repping an explosive lineup at the European Film Market (EFM) this year, led by their upcoming military action Take Point, as well as several recent hits and local language titles for foreign markets. Reuniting direct...

CJ Entertainment to Adapt French Novel THE VANISHED

Korean studio CJ Entertainment has optioned the film rights for the French non-fiction novel ‘The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs’, written by Léna Mauger. CJ will provide financing for the Japanese-language projec...

YEON Sang-ho’s Upcoming PSYCHOKINESIS Secures Release Date

Global smash hit TRAIN To BUSAN (2016) director YEON Sang-ho’s new project has a premiere date. “Psychokinesis has secured its release date in February, 2018.” Korean film investor and distributor NEW announced in a press release on October 18th. TRAIN TO BUSA...

LEE Byung-hun and PARK Jung-min Wrap THAT’S ONLY MY WORLD

Incoming family drama That’s Only My World (working title) wrapped production on August 27th. The debut film from director CHOI Sung-hyun stars LEE Byung-hun, PARK Jung-min, YOUN Yuh-jung, HAN Ji-min and KIM Sung-ryoung. LEE Byung-hun plays a has-been boxer wh...

Udine Audiences Favor SPLIT and CANOLA

The 19th edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival came to a close on April 29th after welcoming 60,000 viewers. While this year’s First Place Golden Mulberry Audience Award and Black Dragon Award went to the Japanese film Close Knit by OGIGAMI Naoko, it was...

RYU Seung-ryong and JUNG Woo Join Cast of FIFTH COLUMN

SONG Kang-ho Leads New WON Shin-yun Action-Thriller Top actors RYU Seung-ryong and JUNG Woo have joined SONG Kang-ho in the upcoming action-thriller Fifth Column. Handling the directing reigns will be veteran WON Shin-yun. SONG will play KANG Jong-deok, a d...