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Busan film fest ticket sales to open next week

Ticket sales for Korea’s largest film event, the Busan International Film Festival, will begin next week. Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies will be available online at www.biff.kr at 6 p.m. on Sept. 26. They cost 20,000 won ($17.75) each. The opening and closing films this year are Korean director Shin Su-won’s “Glass Garden” and Taiwanese director Sylvia Chang’s “Love Education.” It is the first time both the festival’s opening and closing films are helmed by female directors. 　 A

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford talk about upcoming ‘Blade Runner’

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Denis Villeneuve met with Korean press via video conference Monday evening at CGV Yongsan in central Seoul for the upcoming neo-noir “Blade Runner 2049.” 　The actors and director were calling in from Berlin, Germany. 　Director Villeneuve addressed the Korean letters visible in the trailer clip. 　“There are a lot of influences from Korea and Japan as well, in the first Blade Runner,” Villeneuve said. “In the second one, we added influences from Eastern Europe and I

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Film
Heartthrob actors Lee Jong-suk, Song Seung-heon take on villain roles

A handful of Korean cinema’s heartthrobs have taken on villainous roles in recent and upcoming films.　Lee Jong-suk, who played romantic lead characters in drama series such as “Pinocchio” and “I Can Hear Your Voice,” plays an imperious North Korean serial killer in the crime drama “V.I.P.,” which opened in theaters in August. His milky-white complexion and boyish image were able to translate well into an oddly sinister sort of villain, Lee said in an interview last month. Lee Jong-suk stars in

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'Memoir of a Murderer' rules box office for second weekend

Homegrown crime thriller "Memoir of a Murderer" topped the box office for the second weekend straight, data showed Monday.The film starring Seol Kyung-gu, Kim Nam-gil and Kim Seol-hyeon added 483,237 to its domestic total of over 2 million in attendance, the real-time based box office figures from the Korean Film Council said.Based on Kim Young-ha's best-selling novel of the same name, "Memoir" depicts the story of an aged former serial killer with Alzheimer's who strives to keep his only daught

Sept 18, 2017
Film
[Herald Interview] Empathy without exploitation

Gina Kim’s award-winning VR film ‘Bloodless’ features murder victim’s final minutes

Sept 16, 2017
Film
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

Baby Driver(US)Opened Sept. 13Action, crime. Directed by Edgar Wright Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a skilled getaway driver, who chauffeurs robbers seeking to flee crime scenes quickly and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He meets a waitress named Debora (Lily James) at a diner, and the two start dating. He begins to dream of ditching his lifestyle and pursuing a normal life. But Baby’s next robbery goes awry and he narrowly manages to evade the police. Baby’s boss Doc (Kevin Spacey), a heist mastermind, fo

Sept 16, 2017
Film
Director Hong Sang-soo making new film with actress Kim Min-hee

Director Hong Sang-soo will release a new film with his actress-lover Kim Min-hee, according to film industry sources Thursday.They said Hong began shooting his 22nd feature film early this month with Kim and Kwon Hae-hyo, actors from his previous work "The Day After.""We understand (the movie) recently went into filming," Kwon's management agency said. "We don't know the name and other details of the film yet."It is the fifth work between Hong and Kim, who admitted to their extramarital relatio

Sept 14, 2017
Film
CJ E&M aims to become global film production studio

Contents conglomerate CJ E&M plans to aggressively expand global film production, the company announced at a press conference Wednesday.CJ E&M, the largest film distributor in Korea, plans to produce and distribute 20 films per year in foreign markets by 2020. Currently, the company funds and distributes some 10 to 15 films in Korea each year. 　“The Korean movie market has reached saturation point,” said Jeong Tae-sung, CEO of CJ Entertainment, the company’s movie arm, in a presentation at The P

Sept 14, 2017
Film
Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton to visit Korea for ‘Kingsman 2’

Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Taron Egerton from the cast of “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” will be coming to Korea on Sept. 20, 20th Century Fox Korea announced Tuesday.It will be the first Korea visit for English actor Firth, known here for the “Bridget Jones” series, “Love Actually” (2003) and “The King’s Speech” (2010). Welsh actor Egerton and Scottish actor Strong also gained popularity in the 2014 prequel “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” which was a box office hit here. Taron Egerton stars in

Sept 13, 2017
Film
Busan film fest to open, close with female directors

For the first time in its 22-year history, works by female directors will both open and close the Busan International Film Festival.　Korea’s “Glass Garden,” directed by Shin Su-won and starring actress Moon Geun-young, is set to open the festival, which will run in the southeastern port city of Busan from Oct. 12-21.　 Busan International Film Festival’s Executive Director Kang Soo-youn (left) and Chairman Kim Dong-ho speak to press at the President Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, Monday. (Yonhap)The fi

Sept 12, 2017
Film
'Memoir of a Murderer' soars on debut weekend

"Memoir of a Murderer," starring actor Seol Kyung-gu, got off to a promising start over the weekend, data showed Monday.The Showbox crime-thriller, which received mostly positive reviews, attracted a solid audience of 899,986 on its opening weekend, according to real-time box office figures from the Korean Film Council. The movie's accumulated number of views reached 1.191 million.Based on Kim Young-ha's best-selling novel of the same name, the Won Shin-yun-directed film has topped the daily cha

Sept 11, 2017
Film
‘A Taxi Driver’ becomes 10th most-viewed Korean film

“A Taxi Driver” has become the first film this year to surpass the 12 million-ticket mark as of Saturday, according to the Korean Film Council. 　The film has sold 12,023,670 tickets in total, becoming the 10th most-viewed Korean film in the country. It sold some 40,000 tickets on Saturday alone. 　The ninth most-viewed Korean film is “King and the Clown” (2005) by Lee Joon-ik, with 12,302,831 tickets sold. Song Kang-ho stars in “A Taxi Driver.” (Showbox)“A Taxi Driver,” directed by Jang Hoon, ha

Sept 11, 2017
Film
Gina Kim, Eugene YK Chung nab top VR awards at Venice film fest

Korean filmmaker Gina Kim won the best virtual reality story award for “Bloodless” at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, which closed Saturday.The best VR award went to the animation film “Arden’s Wake,” written and directed by Eugene YK Chung, director and founder of Penrose, a US startup that focuses on augmented and virtual reality. “Bloodless,” a 12-minute film about a sex worker’s final moments, is based on the case of a US soldier’s brutal murder of a Korean bar worker in the US

Sept 11, 2017
Film
Del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’ wins Golden Lion at Venice

Guillermo del Toro’s monster thriller “The Shape of Water” took the top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, capping an 11-day event where the demons of social division and environmental disaster loomed large on the screen.Del Toro was named winner of the Golden Lion by a jury headed by US actress Annette Bening, beating contenders including George Clooney’s “Suburbicon” and Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing.” Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro holds the Golden Lion award he received for

Sept 11, 2017
Film
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

Memoir of a Murderer(Korea)Opened Sept. 6Drama, thriller. Directed by Won Shin-yun Byung-soo (Sol Kyung-gu), a former serial killer, is now an emaciated elderly man suffering from early stage Alzheimer’s disease. His unsuspecting daughter Eun-hee (Kim Seol-hyun) looks after her erratic father, who disappears for lengthy periods into the bamboo forest. During one of his outings, Byung-soo’s car collides into the car of police officer Tae-joo (Kim Nam-gil), who seems to have a corpse hidden in his

Sept 9, 2017
Film

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