Director Shin Jungwon Passes Away at Age 47

Night of the Undead (2020)Shin Jungwon, the director known for horror comedies such as To Catch a Virgin Ghost (2004) and last year’s Night of the Undead (2020), has died at the age of 46. He passed away suddenly of acute sepsis related to liver cirrhosis on D...

KIM Jong-kwan’s Commercial Debut JOSEE Scores Global Sales

Josée, a romantic drama starring NAM Joo-hyuk and HAN Ji-min and the highly anticipated commercial film debut of arthouse director KIM Jong-kwan, has scored several international sales and will screen across Asia this month. A remake of the Japanese drama Jose...

THE MAN STANDING NEXT Leads Blue Dragon Film Awards with 11 Nominations

41st Edition of Prestigious Awards to Take Place on December 10 The Blue Dragon Film Awards revealed the nominations for this year’s 41st edition, which is scheduled to take place on December 10. WOO Min-ho’s period political drama The Man Standing Next leads ...

HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Triumphs at 29th Buil Film Awards

This year’s 29th Buil Film Awards took place as usual during the first weekend of the Busan International Film Festival. KIM Bora’s House of Hummingbird (2018), which debuted at the festival two years earlier, returned to Busan to claim the Best Film Award at ...

Fantasy SF WONDERLAND in Talks for Partial Netflix Launch

Following the recent rumors that the SF blockbuster Space Sweepers has been in talks for a Netflix launch, news sites light up again when reports surfaced that Wonderland (literal title) another big-budget Korean sci-fi, was also mulling a move to the global s...

PARASITE Leads Asian Film Awards with 10 Nominations

The Asian Film Awards are returning for their 14th edition this year, which will take place for the first time in Busan, South Korea, after the previous 13 editions took place in either Hong Kong or Macao. Leading the nominations scorecard is BONG Joon-ho’s gl...

PARASITE Tops Grand Bell and BaekSang Arts Awards

The 56th editions of both the Grand Bell Film Awards and the BaekSang Arts Awards were held in quick succession earlier this month, on the 3rd and 5th, both without an audience for the first time, owing to public health concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. B...

56th Baeksang Arts Awards to Take Place without Audience on June 5

Following a delay owing to the current pandemic, the 56th edition of the Baeksang Arts Awards are now scheduled to take place on June 5 in the KINTEX center in Ilsan to the West of Seoul, thought they will take place without a live audience. The nominees for B...

JUNG Yu-mi May Join TANG Wei, CHOI Woo-shik, PARK Bo-gum and BAE Suzy in WONDERLAND

An all-star cast is gathering for the sci-fi melodrama Wonderland (literal title), the long-awaited return of Late Autumn (2011) director KIM Tae-yong. JUNG Yu-mi is reportedly in talk to join a cast that already includes Chinese superstar TANG Wei, CHOI Woo-s...

LEE Sung-min and NAM Joo-hyuk Set to REMEMBER

Actors LEE Sung-min and NAM Joo-hyuk are set to join forces in the upcoming revenge thriller Remember (literal title). A Violent Prosecutor (2016) director LEE Il-hyung will be handling the reins on the project, which is set to begin production in February. LE...